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Phillip Scott
14
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 17-3
9
East Central ECU 8-15
Winner
Central Oklahoma UCO
17-3
14
Final
9
East Central ECU
8-15
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Central Oklahoma UCO 4 1 0 0 3 0 2 2 2 14 20 3
East Central ECU 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 6 9 13 1

W: Vickers, Nick (3-0) L: Davis Rogers (1-3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Chris Brannick

UCO Crushes ECU

ADA, Okla. – The University of Central Oklahoma baseball team beat East Central 14-9 Tuesday afternoon in a non-conference road matchup to push the Broncho win streak to seven games.
 
UCO is now 17-3 overall this season, having won seven straight and 13 out of 14.
 
"We did play really well today, but we could've finished the game better," UCO head coach John Martin said. "We'll take the win and move on and get back home and get ready for the next one."
 
Central held a 14-3 lead going into the bottom of the ninth.
 
The offensive outburst by the Bronchos saw a season-high 20 hits. The Bronchos got off to a good start in a hurry. UCO rallied with two outs in the top of the first inning to take a big lead.
 
Philip Scott lined a single through the right side. Garrett Takamatsu singled to left. Then Brett Hopkins smacked a two-RBI single to left center to put the Bronchos on the scoreboard. Joe Mondragon kept it going with a bunt single before Cacy Harper smashed a two-RBI double to center to give the Bronchos a 4-0 lead.
 
Colton Bertus kept it going in the top of the second with a solo home run that put the Bronchos up 5-0.
 
Central leveled out for a couple of innings, and ECU got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third, but the Bronchos rallied again in the fifth.
 
It also came with two outs in the inning, UCO got a single from Zac Freeman that scored Mondragon, who was hit by a pitch to leadoff the inning. Scott then hit a single up the middle to score Carson Green and Freeman. That gave the Bronchos an 8-1 lead in the game.
 
Nick Vickers got the start Tuesday and was solid in a four-inning outing. The lefty finished the day allowing just four hits and a walk, one run, and struck out five in four innings of work.
 
Central added two more in the seventh. After a leadoff double down the left-field line by Green, and a one-out single from Freeman, Bertus knocked a sacrifice fly to right field to score Green and give the Bronchos a 9-2 lead. Scott then scored Freeman on a single to center that made it 10-2.
 
Brayden Belden came on in the fifth to relieve Vickers and continued a solid day on the mound for the Bronchos. Belden threw two innings out of the bullpen, allowing four hits and two runs. Lawson Isaacs then came in for Belden in the seventh and struck out two in his inning of work.
 
The Bronchos responded to a big strikeout by Isaacs to end the seventh with a pair of runs in the top of the eighth and both came on one swing of the bat. After Mondragon led off with a walk, Harper saw a pitch he liked and drilled it over the fence in left field to give the Bronchos a 12-3 lead.
 
Cental finished it off with two more in the ninth. Bertus reached on an error to leadoff the inning, then three-straight hits followed. Scott singled, his fifth of the game, Takamatsu followed with an RBI single to left field, then Mason Carrier added an RBI double to center to give the Bronchos a 14-3 lead.
 
Zach Moore came on to pitch the ninth, making his Broncho debut, and allowed four runs on two hits and two walks. Owen Logan followed him out of the bullpen and gave up a pair of hits and a pair of runs.
 
Central Oklahoma finished with a season-high 20 hits in the game. Scott led the way with a 5-for-5 performance at the plate. UCO got hits from nine players Tuesday and five of those had multiple hits. Freeman finished the day 2-for-6 with an RBI and two runs scored, Bertus went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored, Takamatsu went 4-for-5 with one run and one RBI, and Harper finished 3-for-5 with four RBIs and one run scored.
 
UCO ran its win streak to seven games with the victory Tuesday. The Bronchos won four of those on the road. Central returns to Wendell Simmons Field now for a seven-game homestand, beginning Friday with a three-game MIAA series against Emporia State.
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