Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score
MCAC Standings
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. -- The sixth-ranked Bellevue University baseball team saw its 11-game winning streak come to an end in a doubleheader split Saturday at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. The Eagles took the opener, 3-2, before the Bruins shut out OWU in the nightcap, 3-0.
Bellevue moved to 38-7-1 on the season and 17-3 in the MCAC. Oklahoma Wesleyan is now 28-21 overall and 10-10 in league action.
The Bruins will host Doane College on Tuesday, April 23, in a 4 p.m. single nine-inning contest at Westgate Field.
Game 1: Oklahoma Wesleyan 3, Bellevue 2
Connor Garcia and CJ Gregory limited the Bruins to seven hits and two runs, as the Eagles snapped BU's 11-game winning streak with the 3-2 win in the opener.
Neither team scored until an RBI single to right field by Jose Ruiz gave the Eagles a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third innning.
The Bruins tied the game in the top of the sixth on an RBI double to right field by Ryan Knutz.
OWU regained the lead in the bottom of the sixth, scoring a pair of runs on a solo homer by Landon Cloud and a suicide squeeze by Chris McElderry that scored Lance Black from third.
An RBI single by Tanner Moore in the top of the seventh cut the OWU lead to 3-2.
The Bruins managed one hit in each of the final two innings but couldn't get past second base as Gregory earned the save for the Eagles, scattering three hits with two strikeouts and no walks in the final 2 1/3 innings.
Garcia (4-2) recorded the win, allowing four hits with four strikeouts and three walks in 6 2/3 innings on the mound.
Ricky Holm (7-1) suffered his first loss of the season, giving up six hits, while striking out six and walking two in seven innings.
Game 2: Bellevue 3, Oklahoma Wesleyan 0
The nightcap was a pitcher's duel between the Bruins' Kody McFarland and the Eagles' Robert Santana. Neither team scored until the sixth inning when an RBI single to right field by Moore scored Zack Clark to give BU a 1-0 lead.
The Bruins got a pair of insurance runs in the top of the seventh on RBI singles by Andy Smolinski and Kyle Kinman, to push the lead to 3-0.
Sean Felt replaced McFarland in the bottom of the seventh, earning his second save of the season, retiring the final three batters.
McFarland improved to 6-1 on the season, scattering six hits with seven strikeouts, and three walks in six innings of work.
