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Haden O'Toole
3
Central Mo. UCM 33-12, 23-10 MIAA
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Winner Central Oklahoma UCO 24-23, 15-18 MIAA
Central Mo. UCM
33-12, 23-10 MIAA
3
Final
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Central Oklahoma UCO
24-23, 15-18 MIAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Central Mo. UCM 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 7 0
Central Oklahoma UCO 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 5 6 2

W: Childers, Mylan (1-0) L: Treyton DesLauriers (0-2) S: Yarger, Chase (1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Chris Brannick

Bronchos Kick Mules On Senior Day

Central Oklahoma Wins Game 3 5-3 Sunday In Edmond

EDMOND – Central Oklahoma scored a pair of runs on just six pitches in the bottom of the first and then used that early offense to get a 5-3 win in Game 3 against Central Missouri Sunday afternoon at Wendell Simmons Field.
 
UCO is now 24-23 on the season following the win and 15-18 in the MIAA. The Bronchos enter the final week of the regular season with a road trip to No. 28 Northwest Missouri (34-13, 24-9) beginning Thursday in Maryville, Missouri.
 
The 2026 MIAA Baseball Championship hosted by UCO begins Wednesday, May 6 with two play-in games between the No. 7 & 10 seeds and the No. 8 & 9 seeds. The Bronchos have clinched a spot and are ninth in the standings with one week left to play. UCO has an outside chance at the No. 7 seed and will likely be in the 8/9 game. The Bronchos are clear of 10th place regardless of this week's results.
 
The MIAA Baseball Championship, which UCO won last year, continues with four quarterfinals on Thursday, May 7. The semifinals will be played on May 8 and the championship game May 9 at Wendell Simmons Field.
 
Central Oklahoma won its home finale on Sunday with an aggressive offense early and a stout bullpen staffed performance on the mound. Closer Brody Berlowitz got the start for the Bronchos and got a 1-2-3 first inning. In the bottom half, UCO was ready to pounce.
 
Colton Ayres was hit by a pitch and Drake Lee followed with a single to left field. Carson Taylor then laid down a sacrifice bunt to move the runners into scoring position. Haden O'Toole's sacrifice fly to center scored Ayres and Trevor Rowe's double down the left field line scored Lee and gave the Bronchos a 2-0 lead.
 
Ayres was hit on the second pitch of his at back, Lee and Taylor did what they did on first pitches, and O'Toole watched one before his sac-fly. Rowe also swung on the first pitch and gave the Bronchos a 2-0 lead after only six pitches had been thrown.
 
UCM brought a new pitcher out for the second inning and he hit Elijah Alexander to lead it off. Noah Smallwood followed with a walk and then Kade Sheldon's sac-bunt moved the runners into scoring position. Ayres grounded out to first base for the second out but Alexander scored and UCO led 3-0.
 
UCM got one back on an unearned run in the third to make it 3-1. Then it was 3-2 in the fourth when the Mules scored on a wild pitch.
 
Lee pushed it back to a two-run game in the bottom of the fourth. Sheldon was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning, moved to second on Ayres' sac-bunt, then scored on Lee's single up the middle.
 
Central Oklahoma scored in the first, second, and fourth innings and UCM hit the leadoff in each frame.
 
In the bottom of the sixth, Alexander took an 0-2 pitch over the fence and off the scoreboard in left field to make it 5-2, UCO. UCM added its last run in the seventh. With the bases loaded, a double play wasn't enough to prevent the runner from third from scoring and making it a 5-3 ballgame.
 
Berlowitz finished with 4.0 innings pitched and gave up two runs on five hits. He struck out two batters. Tristan Wittau followed but after he hit the leadoff and walked the next batter, Mylan Childers came on to pitch. Childers got UCO out of the fifth and would throw 4.0 innings himself, striking out five batters. He gave up one run on one hit.
 
Chase Yarger got the save with a four-up, three-down ninth. Yarger got a flyout on one pitch, a groundout on two pitches, then gave up a single to right. But he finished with a foul-flyout to third to get the Bronchos in the win column.
 
UCO finished the game with six hits. Lee had two, Rowe had two including a double, and Alexander had two including the home run.
 
Central Oklahoma plays at Northwest Missouri and the series is shifted to begin Thursday afternoon. Game 2 is Friday and Game 3 Saturday as teams look ahead to the postseason the following week.
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