TUTTLE, Okla. – Ryan Reed smashed a walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the seventh to propel the Mid-America Christian baseball team to a 9-8 victory to open the day before coming away with a 14-4 game in the nightcap to complete the series sweep over Oklahoma Panhandle State at Tuttle High School on Saturday afternoon.
 
GAME ONE
SCORE

• Mid-America Christian 9, Oklahoma Panhandle State 8
  • Mid-America Christian (10-5, 2-0 SAC)
  • Oklahoma Panhandle State (4-13, 0-2 SAC)

PITCHING DECISION

• Win: Luuk ter Beek (1-1)
• Loss: Tate Nebhut (0-2)

SCORING SUMMARY

• TOP 1^st – OPSU – Jonathan Applebury singled to left, 2 RBI; Luis Dermas scored; Hunter Hutcinson scored – OPSU 2, MACU 0
• BTM 1^st – MACU – Blake Diggle doubled to right-center, RBI; Anmi Ortega scored – OPSU 2, MACU 1
• TOP 2^nd – OPSU – Ethan Hunt singled to left, RBI; Jhonn Cabrera scored – OPSU 3, MACU 1
• TOP 2^nd – OPSU – Jonathan Applebury homered to left, 3 RBI; Ethan Hunt scored; Hunter Hutchinson scored – OPSU 6, MACU 1
• BTM 2^nd – MACU – Ryan Reed doubled down rf line, RBI; Brandon Reese scored – OPSU 6, MACU 2
• BTM 3^rd – MACU – Blake Diggle homered to left, 3 RBI; Isaiah Leon scored; Andrew Enwiya scored – OPSU 6, MACU 5
• BTM 4^th – MACU – Payton Walk homered to left, RBI – MACU 6, OPSU 6
• TOP 5^th – OPSU – Payton Brown singled up the middle, Manrique Mora advanced to third, scored on error by c – OPSU 7, MACU 6
• BTM 5^th – MACU – Devon Villanueva homered to left, RBI – MACU 7, OPSU 7
• TOP 7^th – OPSU – Jonathan Applebury homered to center, RBI – OPSU 8, MACU 7
• BTM 7^th – MACU – German Sepulveda homered to left, RBI – MACU 8, OPSU 8
• BTM 7^th – MACU – Ryan Reed homered to left, RBI – MACU 9, OPSU 8

TOP PERFORMERS

• Blake Diggle – 2-4, 2B, HR, 4 RBI, R
• Ryan Reed – 2-4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, R
• Luuk ter Beek – W, 5 IP, 2 R, ER, 3 H, 1 BB, 2 SO

GAME SUMMARY

• Mid-America Christian scored its nine runs on 12 hits and committed a pair of errors while Oklahoma Panhandle State tallied its eight runs on seven hits and made just one miscue.
• The Evangels cranked out five home runs in the victory, tying the most in a single game in the NAIA Era. The last time MACU hit five homers in a game came in a 27-5 win at Bacone on Feb. 20, 2020.
• The MACU offense featured some balance batting with eight different players recording a hit and four players notching two hits. Junior designated player Blake Diggle led the offensive charge by batting 2-for-4 with a double, a homer and four RBIs to go with a run scored.
• Ryan Reed also tallied a 2-for-4 day, swatting a double before smashing the no-doubt walk-off home run over the left field fence after German Sepulveda had just tied it with a pinch-hit solo blast that also sailed out to left in the previous at-bat.
• The clutch hit by Reed was the first walk-off of the season for the Evangels.
• While the MACU offense was tough, the Evangels had a hard time slowing down the red-hot bat of Jonathan Applebury for OPSU, as the senior first baseman slashed 3-for-4 with a double, two homers, six RBIs to go with a pair of runs.
• Mid-America Christian starter Cameron Brown struggled through the first two innings as OPSU jumped out to a commanding 6-1 lead.
• The bats started coming alive for the Evangels in the bottom half of the second. An RBI double by Reed preceded a three-run smash by Blake Diggle to left, cutting it to a 6-5 deficit.
• After MACU lost starting center fielder Anmi Ortega to a knee injury after colliding into the left-center field wall while making a running grab, his replacement Payton Walk came up clutch in the bottom of the third by crushing a solo bomb that just crawled over the center field fence, tying the game up at 6-6.
• The Aggies managed to grab the lead back in the fifth when Payton Brown hit a single back up the middle, Manrique Mora scored from second after the ball popped out of the glove of starting catcher Yan Ely Adames making the tag on the sliding Mora, bringing the score to 7-6.
• While Devon Villanueva tied it back up in the bottom of the fifth on a solo jack to left, Applebury smashed his second homer and his sixth RBI of the day on a solo homer that sailed over the center field fence, bringing the Aggies lead to 8-7.
• After a one-out pop out to second for Caden Harris, Sepulveda came up clutch by crushing a solo shot out to left before Reed ended it on the ensuing at-bat.

 
GAME TWO
SCORE

• Mid-America Christian 14, Oklahoma Panhandle State 4
  • Mid-America Christian (11-5, 3-0 SAC)
  • Oklahoma Panhandle State (4-14, 0-3 SAC)

PITCHING DECISION

• Win: Zane Robeaux (4-0)
• Loss: Joaquin Carlos (1-1)

SCORING SUMMARY

• BTM 1^st – MACU – Yan Ely Adames walked, RBI; Andrew Enwiya scored – MACU 1, OPSU 0
• BTM 1^st – MACU – Isaiah Leon scored on a balk – MACU 2, OPSU 0
• BTM 1^st – MACU – Caden Harris grounded out to second, RBI; Blake Diggle scored – MACU 3, OPSU 0
• BTM 2^nd – MACU – Andrew Enwiya homered to left-center, 3 RBI; Ryan Reed scored; Julian Martinez scored – MACU 6, OPSU 1
• BTM 2^nd – MACU – Blake Diggle scored on a balk – MACU 7, OPSU 1
• BTM 2^nd – MACU – Yan Ely Adames stole home – MACU 8, OPSU 1
• BTM 2^nd – MACU – Julian Martinez hit by pitch, RBI; German Sepulveda scored – MACU 9, OPSU 1
• BTM 3^rd – MACU – Yan Ely Adames doubled to left-center, RBI; Isaiah Leon scored – MACU 10, OSU 0
• BTM 3^rd – MACU – German Sepulveda hit a SAC fly to left, RBI; Blake Diggle scored – MACU 11, OPSU 0
• BTM 3^rd – MACU – Yan Ely Adames scored on a fielding error by 2b – MACU 12, OPSU 0
• TOP 4^th – OPSU – Tucker Bond singled to right, RBI; Ethan Hunt scored – MACU 12, OPSU 1
• BTM 5^th – MACU – Brandon Reese singled to left, RBI; Payton Walk scored – MACU 13, OPSU 1
• BTM 5^th – MACU – Austin Wood singled to center, RBI; Shawn Levan scored – MACU 14, OPSU 1
• TOP 6^th – OPSU – Manrique Mora homered to left-center, 2 RBI; Jonathan Applebury scored – MACU 14, OPSU 3
• TOP 7^th – OPSU – Logan Patterson scored on a balk – MACU 14, OPSU 4

TOP PERFORMERS

• Andrew Enwiya – 1-3, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R, BB
• Yan Ely Adames – 2-2, 2 2B, 2 RBI, 2 R, BB
• Isaiah Leon – 4-5, 2 R, SB

GAME SUMMARY

• Mid-America Christian plated its season-high 14 runs on a season-best 15 hits and made just one miscue while Oklahoma Panhandle State scored its four runs on seven hits and committed two errors.
• The Evangels scored 12 of their 14 runs through the first three innings, including putting together a six-run second inning.
• In that second inning, Andrew Enwiya bashed his sixth homer of the season and his three RBIs moved him into third on the team with 12.
• Zane Robeaux notched his team-leading fourth win of the season after going four innings and allowing just one earned run on five hits with just one walk and three strikeouts.
• Since Oklahoma Panhandle State became an NAIA institution during the 2017-18 academic year, the Evangels recorded their first ever series sweep and after losing seven of the first eight meetings, MACU was won four straight against OPSU.
• Mid-America Christian is off to its first 3-0 start to Sooner Athletic Conference play since the 2016 season after MACU swept a three-game series against St. Gregory's (Okla.) on Mar. 3 and Mar. 5.

UP NEXT

• Mid-America Christian will now prepare for a non-conference road doubleheader against Bacone as the Evangels will play the Braves at ONEOK Field, the home of the MiLB Double-A team Tulsa Drillers. The first pitch is slated for noon.