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Brett Pense
10
Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 11-4, 2-2 MIAA
0
Emporia State ESU 5-6, 1-3 MIAA
Winner
Central Oklahoma UCO
11-4, 2-2 MIAA
10
Final
0
Emporia State ESU
5-6, 1-3 MIAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Central Oklahoma UCO 2 2 1 3 1 1 0 10 10 0
Emporia State ESU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2

W: Pense, Brett (2-0) L: Warstler, Trent (0-2) S: Burchfield, Caleb (1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Chris Brannick

Bronchos Batter Hornets In Game 1 Run-Rule

Central Oklahoma Wins 10-0 In Seven Innings To Start Series On High Note

EMPORIA, Kan. – Central Oklahoma surged to a 10-0 run-rule win over Emporia State Saturday afternoon to get a win in the first game of the three-game MIAA series.
 
UCO improved to 11-4 on the season with the win and the Bronchos are now 2-2 in league play. Emporia is 5-6 overall and 1-3 in the MIAA.
 
"It was a good start to the series," UCO head baseball coach John Martin said. "We need to keep it up with that level of play. If we can be consistent at that level, we'll have a chance."
 
Central Oklahoma jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning and kept that pressure on Emporia all day. The Bronchos scored in each of the first six innings, with two more in the second and another run in the third. The Bronchos scored three in the fourth, and one in the fifth and sixth innings.
 
Brett Pense and Caleb Burchfield teamed up for the pitching effort for the Bronchos. Pense started and threw four innings, striking out two batters along the way. He picked up the win and is now 2-0 this season. Burchfield got the save with three innings of work. He struck out four on the day.
 
UCO had 10 hits in the game, with eight different players recording one hit. Drake Lee and Garrett Long both managed two in the game.
 
Lee had a double, Grant Randall hit a triple, and Caden Robertson and Ty Hammack both hit home runs.
 
Hammack got the scoring started with a sac-fly to score Randall in the top of the first inning. Robertson scored on a wild pitch to make it 2-0.
 
Randall scored Orlando Gonzalez on a sac-bunt in the second, then Carson Carpenter singled to score Long and give UCO a 4-0 lead.
 
Ty Chapman's single scored Robertson unearned in the third. In the fourth, Carpenter laid down a sac-bunt to score Gonzalez before Robertson pelted a three-run home run down the left field line to make it 8-0.
 
Long scored Chapman with a sac-fly in the fifth, and Hammack's solo homer to left in the sixth inning gave UCO the 10-0 lead.
 
Central Oklahoma and Emporia State will meet again at 2 p.m. Sunday, with a 1 p.m. Monday meeting to conclude the series.
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