FORT WORTH, Texas – Oklahoma City University finished a four-game sweep of Texas Wesleyan with 10-2 and 11-2 victories on Wednesday at Sycamore Park.
The Stars, ranked seventh in NAIA softball, allowed just six runs in all four games. OCU took its 12th win in a row to move its record to 30-6, 17-1 in the Sooner Athletic Conference.
Tiffany Paul supplied OCU with a three-hit, three-RBI performance, leading the squad. Paul, a sophomore from Choctaw, Okla., gained her 30th RBI and 30th run of the season.
OCU got four runs in the first inning capitalized by a
Lexi Duff RBI single that scored two. Duff, a senior from Lone Grove, would pitch in the second game of the double-header.
Carlee Mollet clouted a home run over the wall in the fourth, and a few batters later, Paul drove home
Kaitlyn Jones and
Rally Radacy to give the Stars a 7-1 advantage.
Amy Crabaugh's double to right-center in the sixth put the Stars up by eight. Radacy finished the scoring off with a single to make it 10-1.
Shelbey Cornelson, a senior exercise science major from Tuttle, Okla., fanned four batters in her five innings of work.
Brynlee Alsip came in to pitch the final inning to shut down the Rams.
In game 2,
Kamryn Garvie led OCU with a huge four-hit, four-RBI showing. Garvie, a junior university studies major from Edmond, Okla., had three doubles in her 4-for-5 performance. Garvie doubled home Paul and Radacy for the Stars' first runs in the game.
Garvie doubled again in the fourth scoring Paul who had just hit her sixth triple of the season.
Brooklyn Mason gave the Stars their final RBI in the fourth with a single that scored Garvie.
Mollet came through in the fifth with an RBI single down the third-base line.
Crabaugh went 3-4 with a run and an RBI. Paul went 3-for-5 with three runs and two RBIs, while Rayburn and Garvie went 4-for-5.
Paul finished her three-hit game at the plate with an RBI single, and Garvie hit her third double of the contest. Paul scored off Garvie's double for the third time. A single by Mason made the ballgame 11-2.
Duff got the start and went five innings. Duff allowed two runs and struck out two. Alsip came in to pitch the final two innings as she struck out one.
The Stars play Langston on Tuesday with the first game set to start at 2 p.m. at Ann Lacy Stadium.