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Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jacks end regular season with loss to ORU
BROOKINGS, S.D. (SDSU) — Oral Roberts starter Brendan Asher limited South Dakota State to two runs over six innings for a Golden Eagles squad that finished off a four-game sweep of a Summit League baseball series with a 9-2 victory Saturday afternoon at Erv Huether Field. In winning the regular season finale for both teams, ORU improved to 34-20 and finished in a tie atop the league standings with St. Thomas with a 21-9 mark. SDSU dropped to 16-34 overall and 12-18 in The Summit League. After leaving runners at the corners in each of the first two innings, the Golden Eagles broke a scoreless deadlock with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth. Ethan Fender and Keaton Campbell opened the frame with back-to-back singles off SDSU starter Dylan Richey. Fender came around to score on a base hit by Martell Davis and Campbell later crossed home plate on a sacrifice fly by Will Edmunson. The two squads traded two-run half-innings in the fifth. The Golden Eagles upped their lead to 4-0 when Wailele Kane-Yates was hit by a pitch to open the inning and scored on a sacrifice fly by Fender. Campbell's third of three hits in the game plated another run. SDSU's lone rally of the game began when Jess Bellows reached on an error. Davis Carr followed with a solid single to left and a bunt single by Keagen Jirschele loaded the bases. Pinch hitter Dayton Franke looped a single to center field to drive in Bellows and Carter Sintek added a sacrifice fly that scored Carr. Asher, meanwhile, put another zero on the board in the sixth inning to finish his outing with four strikeouts and two walks while scattering five hits. Three different ORU relievers each logged one scoreless inning to close out the victory. ORU added a run on its third sacrifice fly of the game in the sixth inning and tacked on four more runs in the eighth. Edmunson hit his third home run of the series to open the eighth and Makani Tanaka added a two-run single. The final run of the game scored on a bloop double down the right-field line by Matthew Brandt. Cooper Combs and Jack Schark also tallied three of ORU's 17 hits. The Jackrabbits' eight hits were spread among eight different players. Seven different pitchers went to the mound for SDSU. Richey turned in the longest outing as he went 3 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on eight hits. UP NEXTThe Jackrabbits and ORU are scheduled to meet again in the opening round of the Summit League Baseball Championship Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska. First pitch is tentatively set for noon at Tal Anderson Field. NOTES Oral Roberts swept the season series, 6-0 The Jackrabbits ended the home portion of their schedule with an 11-9 record Bryce Ronken doubled in the eighth inning to reach base safely for the 29th consecutive game Nolan Grawe upped his hitting streak to 10 games with an infield single in the eighth SDSU committed four errors in Saturday's game and committed 16 miscues in the four-game series Alex Clemons made his 72nd career appearance, moving him into a tie with Brett Mogen (72 appearances from 2017-21) for fourth place on the SDSU all-time charts Ty Madison made his team-leading 21st appearance of the season Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
23-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
What does Oklahoma's loss to Oral Roberts mean for postseason expectations?
What does Oklahoma's loss to Oral Roberts mean for postseason expectations? Two approaches were most common for Oklahoma baseball fans after the No. 13 Sooners fell to Oral Roberts on Tuesday night. The first is that the sky is falling and the if the Sooners can't beat a team from the Summit League, something is seriously wrong. The second is that the loss is meaningless because what Oklahoma does in the Southeastern Conference is all that matters. Neither are ultimately true. OU's mid-week loss to ORU serves more as a ripple in a pond than a postseason-altering shake-up. But the butterfly effect is a real and studied phenomenon. Here's how a Tuesday game against an in-state opponent in April could have lasting repercussions. Why OU Baseball Loss to ORU Doesn't Hurt The Oklahoma baseball team will make the NCAA Tournament. Stamp it down. In fact, the only way it doesn't happen is if OU manages three or fewer wins the rest of the season. Even then, it's hardly a guarantee of missing out. The Sooners' have built a strong enough resume in the best conference in college baseball - 10 teams are ranked in the Top 25 of the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll - that mid-tier teams in the SEC make the NCAA Tournament every year. Some even host with .500-or-worse league records. As it stands with four weeks left in SEC play, Oklahoma is 10-8, tied for sixth in a 16-team league. They're in. More: SEC Baseball Power Rankings after Week 6 of conference play Why OU Baseball Loss to ORU Hurts Playing at home for an NCAA Tournament Regional can be huge. Not only do the other four teams in the Regional have to travel to you, they're at a disadvantage simply by being a lower seed. Regional hosts almost always get lower-tier conference champions in the first game. And while those are far from locks (consider ORU, if it wins the Summit League), they're easier opponents than a power-conference mid-tier team, generally. Oklahoma will likely spent the last month of SEC play the way it spent the first six weeks: middling. Whether such a status is good enough to host a Regional remains to be soon. Maybe, as the No. 13 ranking suggests. But maybe not, as the difficulty of the remaining schedule suggests. If OU goes 6-6 over its final 12 SEC games, it would be a boon. Consider the opponents. Oklahoma travels to No. 10 Georgia, a team that was No. 2 in the nation a few short weeks ago, this weekend. The Sooners host Ole Miss, a team ahead in the SEC Power Rankings, in two weeks. They travel to Kentucky in three weeks for a set against a team just outside the top 25. And Oklahoma finishes the regular season against the No. 1 team in the country, which just happens to be OU's biggest rival, Texas. In other words, beating ORU - like Wichita State next week and Oklahoma State - would have provided some cushion for the gaunlet on the horizon.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jacks drop two in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. (SDSU) — Oral Roberts starting pitchers Easton Teel and Nathan Love each turned in solid starts and Will Edmunson provided the offense in leading the Golden Eagles to a doubleheader sweep of South Dakota State in Summit League baseball action Sunday afternoon at Chapman Park. ORU claimed the opener, 4-2, before cruising to a 9-1 victory in Game 2. With the two wins, ORU improved to 17-12 overall and 6-4 in The Summit League. SDSU dropped to 4-21 overall and 2-8 in Summit League play. Game 1: Oral Roberts 4, South Dakota State 2ORU scored the final four runs of the game to earn the victory as Teel settled in after a bit of a shaky start. The Jackrabbits struck quickly as Owen Siegert led off the game with a base hit and Luke Luksey followed three batters later with his team-leading eighth home run of the season. Owen Coil led off the home half of the third inning with a solo home run off SDSU starter Owen Bishop and the Golden Eagles tied the game later in the frame on an RBI single by Wailele Kane-Yate. Edmunson started what would be the game-winning rally with a one-out double in the fifth and scored when the next hitter, Cooper Combs, also doubled. Combs later scored on a single by Makani Tanaka. Teel, meanwhile, kept SDSU off the board for the remainder of his seven-inning outing. The right-hander struck out four, walked one and allowed only five hits. Dalton Patten followed with two shutout innings with a pair of strikeouts to earn the save. Edmunson was a perfect 4-for-4 as he picked up half of ORU's eight hits. Keagen Jirschele collected two of the Jackrabbits' eight hits. SDSU starter Owen Bishop worked the first 2 1/3 innings for the Jackrabbits and allowed two runs while walking two. Jake Goble logged the final 5 2/3 innings, recording three strikeouts in a losing effort. Game 2: Oral Roberts 9, South Dakota State 1Golden Eagle starter Nathan Love struck out nine over six innings and ORU found its offensive stride in the middle innings. Tanaka doubled to lead off the second inning and scored on an RBI single by Martell Davis in the bottom of the second to give ORU the early lead, but the Jackrabbits tied the game a half-inning later on Jirschele's first collegiate home run. From there, it was all Oral Roberts, starting with a four-run fourth. The Golden Eagles plated the first run of the inning on a sacrifice fly before Edmunson followed with a run-scoring double. Combs added a run-scoring single, with the final run of the inning scoring on the lone Jackrabbit error of the day. ORU squeezed in a run in the fifth and tacked on another run in the sixth for a 7-1 lead on a solo home run by Keaton Campbell, who later capped the scoring with a two-run double in the seventh. Love struck out two batters in each of the second through fifth innings and did not issue a walk while surrendering only two hits. Brenden Asher followed with three scoreless innings of one-hit relief, striking out two. Edmunson was 2-for-5 to finish the doubleheader 6-for-9 at the plate. Kane-Yates and Campbell also posted two hits Oral Roberts leads the all-time series, 78-23 All four of the Jackrabbits' Summit League series this season have had the schedule altered because of weather/field conditions, requiring a doubleheader to be played in each series Nolan Grawe had his program freshman-record 19-game hitting streak end in the opener Carter Sintek extended his hitting streak to eight games with a single in Game 1, then had his streak come to a close in the nightcap Siegert has reached base safely in 12 consecutive games Brady Hawkins pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings to close out Game 2 to extend his streak of scoreless relief appearances to five, covering 5 2/3 innings Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Reuters
07-03-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Oral Roberts fires coach Russell Springmann
March 7 - Oral Roberts fired head coach Russell Springmann on Friday after compiling a 7-23 record and last-place finish in the Summit League. "We want to thank Coach Springmann for his devotion to ORU and work over the last seven years to help ORU basketball achieve recognition on a national level. We pray for nothing but the best for Coach Springmann and his family in the future," said Oral Roberts' athletic director Tim Johnson. Oral Roberts lost in the Summit League tournament opener to UMKC, 73-56, on Wednesday. The Golden Eagles ended the year at the bottom of the Summit League standings with a 3-13 record in the regular season, 10 games behind first-place Omaha. Springmann, 55, took over as interim coach when Paul Mills was fired in January 2023. He officially became head coach in March 2023 after serving as an assistant coach at ORU since May 2018. He spent 17 years on staff at the University of Texas with Rick Barnes and also had stints with the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA and at the University of San Diego. Springmann leaves Oral Roberts with a record of 19-41. Johnson said a nationwide search for a new coach will begin immediately. "With the recent proven success, facilities, fan support, and resources available, I could not be more excited and confident about the direction of ORU basketball. All the pieces are in place to continue to consistently compete for championships, NCAA Tournament wins, and build on a phenomenal basketball tradition."
