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Washburn WU 21-16, 14-9 MIAA

Central Oklahoma UCO 26-11, 14-9 MIAA

Washburn WU

21-16, 14-9 MIAA

Final

Apr. 08, 2023

Central Oklahoma UCO

26-11, 14-9 MIAA

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Washburn WU	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	0
Central Oklahoma UCO	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	X	7	8	0

W: Farmer, Jase (1-0) L: Kiefer,Charlie (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | 4/8/2023 5:55:00 PM | Chris Brannick

Bronchos Sweep 'Bods In Edmond

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EDMOND – Central Oklahoma completed a three-game sweep of Washburn with a 7-3 victory Saturday at Wendell Simmons Field.

UCO improved to 26-11 on the season with the win and the Bronchos are now 14-9 in MIAA play. Central was three games back of Washburn before the series started and has now pulled into a tie with the Ichabods for fourth place in the league standings with three weeks left in the season.

"We got really good work from our pitching staff all weekend and I'm really proud of those guys," UCO head baseball coach John Martin said. "They were solid in all three games and our offense kept it up too to give them the run support. We had to work for it today. It's hard to beat a team three days in a row. But the guys found a way."

Central Oklahoma limited Washburn to nine total runs in three games after the team arrived in town averaging 7.5 per game. UCO picked up a 9-5 win on Thursday and an 8-1 win Friday before Saturday's 7-3 decision in the series finale.

Saturday it was Caleb Burchfield getting the start. The right-hander threw four innings and struck out four batters. He walked three and gave up all three of Washburn's runs on three hits. WU rallied for three in the top of the fourth inning to take a 3-2 lead in the game, but UCO's bullpen limited the Ichabods to just two hits and no runs over the final five innings.

Jase Farmer gave up one hit and Jeb Jenkins gave up another. Jacob Bailey went three-up, three-down in his appearance. All three threw one inning. Valek Cisneros finished the game throwing the eighth and ninth and went six-up, six-down.

Jenkins and Cisneros both struck out two batters and Bailey struck out one.

UCO had just two hits in the game through six innings of play, but managed six more hits in the final two innings to take over the game.

Aiden Proctor drew a leadoff walk in the bottom of the first inning, then stole second, then stole third. After Seth Gray drew a walk himself, Noah Olson hit a sacrifice fly to center field to score Proctor and give UCO a 1-0 lead.

Landen Wood drew a leadoff walk in the second, then he stole second before moving to third on an Austin Lambert groundout. Wood scored on a bunt single – the first hit of the game for the Bronchos – by Orlando Gonzalez, that put the Bronchos ahead 2-0.

Washburn made its rally in the fourth to take a 3-2 lead, and it wasn't until the bottom of the seventh before the Bronchos found their way back in front.

Proctor led off the inning with a triple down the right field line, then scored on another Olson sac-fly to tie the game, 3-3. Seth Gray had drawn another walk before that and moved to second when Jaden Parsons singled to left field. Both of them moved up a base on a wild pitch, then Parsons scored on another wild pitch to give UCO a 4-3 lead. Wyatt Gray followed with an RBI single to left center that scored his twin brother and gave UCO a 5-3 lead.

UCO added a little padding in the eighth. Lambert led off the inning with a ground-rule double to left center before he stole third base. Seth Gray then doubled down the right field line to score Lambert and make it 6-3. Olson followed with a single up the middle to score Seth Gray and give UCO its final tally, 7-3.

Wyatt Gray's 2-for-4 day was the only multi-hit performance of the day for the Bronchos. Proctor, Seth Gray, Olson, Parsons, Lambert and Gonzalez all had one hit each.

Central Oklahoma will take Easter Sunday off as well as Monday before hitting the road to finish it's month-long MIAA series against Northeastern State on Tuesday night. UCO is back home next weekend and will take on Northwest Missouri for a three-game MIAA series at Wendell Simmons Field.

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