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Diego Dominguez
10
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 30-16, 17-14 MIAA
3
Emporia State ESU 17-30, 11-20 MIAA
Winner
Central Oklahoma UCO
30-16, 17-14 MIAA
10
Final
3
Emporia State ESU
17-30, 11-20 MIAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Central Oklahoma UCO 1 1 2 0 3 0 2 0 1 10 16 0
Emporia State ESU 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 2

W: Dominguez, Diego (4-1) L: Brunner,Graham (1-5)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Chris Brannick

Bronchos Swat Hornets In Opener

EMPORIA, Kan. – Central Oklahoma opened its three-game MIAA series against Emporia State with a 10-3 win on Friday night, earning win No. 30 on the year for the Bronchos.
 
Central Oklahoma improved to 30-16 overall and is now 17-14 in the MIAA. A win by Washburn elsewhere in the league also locked UCO into the No. 5 seed in next week's MIAA Baseball Championship.
 
Friday, Central scored four runs in the first three innings and three more in the fifth to take command of the game, while Diego Dominguez struck out nine Hornets during his six-inning start. Dominguez earned the win, going six innings and allowing three runs on six hits and three walks.
 
Jaden Parsons got the scoring started in the top of the first inning. Kaleb Glass hit a one-out single and advanced to second on a throwing error by the ESU catcher. Parsons then doubled to center and scored Glass to give UCO a 1-0 lead.
 
Aiden Proctor gave UCO a 2-1 lead in the second when his single to right field scored Wyatt Gray, who doubled with one out earlier in the inning.
 
Cameron Uselton smacked two-run home run to left center in the top of the third inning, giving the Bronchos a 4-1 lead. Parsons was on base after a single.
 
The Bronchos kept it going in the fifth. Noah Olson doubled to right to score Glass. Uselton hit a sacrifice fly to score Olson. And Gray hit a single through the right side to score his brother, Seth Gray, who had just tripled, giving the Bronchos a 7-3 lead.
 
Seth took his turn on a home run ball in the seventh, scoring Uselton, and giving the Bronchos a 9-3 lead. Proctor added an RBI single in the ninth to score Austin Lambert and give the Bronchos their final 10-3 lead.
 
All but one Broncho recorded a hit on Friday, with Lambert the only one not to. But he also go on base twice and scored a run. Orlando Gonzalez went 1-for-5. All seven other Bronchos recorded multi-hit games. Proctor, Glass, Olson, Uselton, and both Grays, all had two hits, while Parsons had three to give UCO 16 in the game.
 
Dominguez was relieved by Grant Zwald, who threw two innings of scoreless and hitless baseball. He struck out four batters. Brandon Gomez threw the ninth and struck out three batters.
 
Game 2 is scheduled for Saturday at 3 p.m. The two will wrap up the series and the 2023 regular season Sunday at 1 p.m.
 
 
 
 
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