OKLAHOMA CITY – The MACU baseball team put together a stellar performance in all three facets of the game, including the Evangels' pitching staff allowing just three hits in a 9-0 shutout victory over NCAA Division II Southern Nazarene at the MACU Baseball Field on Tuesday afternoon.
 
SCORE

• Mid-America Christian 9, Southern Nazarene 0
  • Mid-America Christian (17-8)
  • Southern Nazarene (7-20)

PITCHING DECISIONS

• Win: Breyllin Suriel (1-2)
• Loss: Will DesHotels (0-5)

TOP PERFORMERS

• Breyllin Suriel – W, 4.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 SO
• Dylan Lyddon – 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO
• Carlos Medina – 2-4, HR, 4 RBI, R
• Kyle Williams – 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI, R
• Jacob Police – 2-3, 3B, 2 R, BB

SCORING SUMMARY

• BTM 1^st – MACU – Kyle Williams doubled to left-center, 2 RBI; Noel McGarry-Doyle scored; Taiga Sakuma scored – MACU 2, SNU 0
• BTM 2^nd – MACU – D'Andre Gaines reached on a throwing error by 3b; Taiga Sakuma scored on error – MACU 3, SNU 0
• BTM 3^rd – MACU – Zachary Stark doubled down lf line, RBI; Jacob Police scored – MACU 4, SNU 0
• BTM 4^th – MACU – Carlos Medina homered down lf line, 3 RBI; Kyle Williams scored; Noel McGarry-Doyle scored – MACU 7, SNU 0
• BTM 7^th – MACU – Jacob Police tripled to right-center, scored on throwing error by 2b – MACU 8, SNU 0
• BTM 8^th – MACU – Carlos Medina singled thru left side, RBI; Joel Nieves scored – MACU 9, SNU 0

GAME NOTES

• Mid-America Christian scored its nine runs on nine hits while Southern Nazarene tallied just three hits and committed three errors.
• The Evangels bats injected some energy into the game right off the bat in the bottom of the first as Taiga Sakuma's lead-off single to right and Noel McGarry-Doyle reaching on a hit-by-pitch allowed Kyle Williams to bring both home on a ripped two-RBI double to the left-center field wall, setting the score to 2-0.
• MACU took advantage of a SNU miscue to add to its lead in the bottom of the second as Sakuma drew a one-out walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch before reaching home on an errant throw made by the third baseman on D'Andre Gaines' at-bat to make it a 3-0 game.
• The Evangels chipped in one more in the bottom of the third following Jacob Police's one-out single as Zachary Stark later hammered an RBI double down the left field line to secure the 4-0 advantage.
• With two outs in the bottom of the fourth, Mid-America Christian all but put the game away when Carlos Medina hammered a high flyball that got over the left field wall with two outs once again to stretch the edge to 7-0.
• The Evangels added a little extra insurance in both the seventh and eighth innings as Police came around to score in the seventh after hammering a triple to right-center and came home on the errant relay throw going into the MACU dugout. In the eighth, it was Medina delivering his fourth RBI of the game after slapping a two-out single through the left side to plate Joel Nieves to wrap-up the 9-0 final.
• In picking up his first career win, Breyllin Suriel was dazzling on the mound in the start, tossing a no-hitter through four innings while allowing only a walk to go with a MACU career-high seven strikeouts.
• MACU's pitching success continued with Dylan Lyddon in relief as the sophomore righty threw three scoreless, just barely allowing a single hit to go with three strikeouts. Both Kelton Lachelt and Jordan Smith each tossed a scoreless inning of relief as well.
• After being held without a homer over his last 10 games, Medina came up huge for MACU as his three-run homer highlighted a 2-for-4 day and tied a career-high four RBIs in the outing.
• Kyle Williams also put together a big day at the plate, batting 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs to go with a run scored.
• Coming off earning the Sooner Athletic Conference Player of the Week award, Jacob Police stayed red-hot at the dish, slashing 2-for-3 with a triple and a pair of runs scored while also reaching on a walk.
• Incredibly, Noel McGarry-Doyle continued his torrid on-base streak as the junior outfielder did not record an official at-bat after reaching base on three walks and two hit-by-pitches while scoring a pair of runs. As a result, McGarry-Doyle raised his season on-base percentage to .551, the highest clip in the SAC.
• The victory over Southern Nazarene snapped MACU's seven-game losing streak to the Crimson Storm, doing so in a big way. The win marked just the second time the Evangels had shut out SNU, the first since picking up a 4-0 win at the MACU Baseball Field on Feb. 8, 2007.
• The win marked the fifth-straight for the Evangels, their second-longest win streak of the season after notching seven in a row from Feb. 9-20.

UP NEXT

• Mid-America Christian will return to Sooner Athletic Conference play on Friday as the Evangels head to Goodwell, Oklahoma for a three-game series against Oklahoma Panhandle State. MACU will open the slate with a Friday doubleheader slated for a noon start before closing out the series at noon on Saturday.