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THE RUNDOWN
OKLAHOMA CITY – The St. Edward's baseball team (23-18, 11-9) rose to the challenge by defeating Oklahoma Christian (20-21, 9-11) in a four-game set, 3-1 at Dobson Baseball Field. The Hilltoppers won Friday's doubleheader by the score of 2-1 in game one, before dropping game two, 12-6.
 
BLAKE ALEXANDER was responsible for both of the Hilltoppers runs in the first inning as he drove in one on a double and scored himself by capitalizing on an infield error to put SEU ahead, 2-0. OCU put one run on the board in the fifth, but the defense closed the door in the seventh behind TANNER LAWSON (8-2) who threw six strikeouts in his seventh complete game this season.
 
The Eagles had their biggest offensive output in the series in game two to avoid the sweep. Despite being down three runs on two different occasions, OCU hit two home runs in as many innings to account for five runs to help gain their first lead of the series by the seventh, 10-6. The visiting team would score two more runs to wrap up the series vs. the Hilltoppers. CHRIS LOGAN (0-1) was charged with the loss after throwing just 1.2 innings. Starter JUAN CORTINA threw four strikeouts but gave up five runs, hits, and walks in 4.1 innings before being knocked out the game. JAKE DAVIS, GARRETT MILLER, JOEL MILLER, and JOSIAH CHUPIK all made appearances on the mound.
 
HIGHLIGHTS GAME ONE
• St. Edward's extended its winning streak to six games and held a five-game winning streak over Oklahoma Christian.
• BLAKE ALEXANDER recorded his 28^th multiple hit game of his career and 13^th f the season (2-for-3, R, RBI).
• BLAKE HOLUB's double was the 10^th of the season.
• TANNER LAWSON walked just one batter.
 
HIGHLIGHTS GAME TWO
• WILLIAM HAIRSTON recorded his 41^sr multiple hit game of his career and 19^th of the season (3-for-4, 2R, RBI).
• TJ GISELBACH recorded his 26^th multiple hit game and 22^nd multiple RBI games of his career (2-for-4, 2 RBI).
• DYLAN MACKIN recorded his 5^th multiple hit game this season (2-for-4, R).
• BLAKE HOLUB recorded his 4^th career multiple RBI game of his career (1-for-4, 2 RBI).
• JOSIAH CHUPIK threw his 10^th career strikeout.

STAT OF THE GAME I
21 – St. Edward's recorded 21 runs in the series vs. Oklahoma Christian's 16.
 
STAT OF THE GAME II
13 – St. Edward's was outhit by Oklahoma Christian in game two 13-12.
 
THEY SAID IT
Head Coach Rob Penders on what has clicked in these back-to-back series wins…
"It has been a willingness to play the game without fear. We did that during the last three games last weekend and every inning of this weekend until the end of the last game today. The good thing is that we know how we can play with that mindset now and the type of results we get when we do it that way."

WHAT'S NEXT
After being road warriors for two weeks, St. Edward's will play out the rest of the regular season in front of the Hilltopper faithful, beginning with a four-game set vs. Lubbock Christian April 27-28. Live stats and video will be available at GoHilltoppers.com.

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