April 21, 2009

4.21.09 - Oklahoma City, Okla.- The Mid-America Christian University baseball team continued its winning streak Tuesday afternoon with a 13-1 run-rule and a 9-1 win over Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College at Evangel Field.

The win was the 7th in a row for Evangles who improved to 23-23 overall.

Matt Allen and Jake Scott led MACU's offensive attack in game one. Allen was 2-for-2, knocking in five runs and Scott was 1-for-2 with three RBI's, hitting his sixth home run of the season. The Evangels finished with 10 hits in the contest.

Brett St. Amour and Pete Feurtado were also successful at the plate both going 2-for-4. St. Amour had one RBI and Feurtado had two RBI's.

On the mound, Freshman Kaplan Smith turned in a strong performance, working all seven innings and allowed just one unearned run on three hits with four strikeouts. He improves to 2-0 on the year.

In game two the Evangels took were victorious 9-1.

Austin Boswell and Kieran Bradford led the MACU offense in game two. Boswell was 2-for- 2 with 3 RBI's, hitting his fifth homerun of the season. Bradford was 3-for-4 with one RBI.

Pete Feurtado also had significant contributions going 2-for-4.

With a comfortable cushion, the Evangels rotated pitchers on the mound throughout the contest. Brad Workman started the game and worked four innings, striking out one and earning the win to go 1-0 on the season.

Following Workman, three different hurlers worked one innings scoreless apiece and combined to allow just two hits. Hillsdale scored one unearned run in the top of the seventh

MACU returns to Sooner Athletic Conference action Thursday, April 23rd when they open their series against Oklahoma Baptist University at Bison Field. Thursday's opener is scheduled for a 6:00 p.m. start.