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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Sport
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Seven-run second lifts ORU past Jackrabbits
OMAHA, Neb. (SDSU) — Top-seeded Oral Roberts scored seven times in the bottom of the second inning and never looked back in an 11-2 victory over South Dakota State in the opening round of the Summit League Baseball Championship Wednesday afternoon at Tal Anderson Field. The Golden Eagles improved to 35-20 overall and will face the winner between Wednesday's late game between North Dakota State and Omaha at 6 p.m. Thursday. SDSU dropped to 16-35 on the season and will face the NDSU-Omaha loser in an elimination game at noon Thursday. ORU sent 11 batters to the plate in the second inning. Makani Tanaka started the outburst with a base hit off Jackrabbit starter Arlen Peters, which was followed by an error. Owen Coil doubled in the first two runs of the frame and Wailele Kane-Yates capped the rally with a three-run home run to left field. The other runs scored on a bases-loaded walk to Will Edmunson and a sacrifice fly off the bat of Cooper Combs. Ty Madison followed with 2 2/3 scoreless innings of relief for the Jackrabbits before the Golden Eagles added three more runs in the fifth — two of which were unearned — and a run on four walks in the seventh inning to build an 11-0 advantage. Meanwhile, ORU starter Easton Teel kept the Jackrabbits scoreless through the first seven innings and did not allow more than one baserunner in any of those innings. The right-hander struck out three and walked one batter. The Jackrabbits ended Teel's shutout bid with a pair of runs in the top of the eighth. Jess Bellows and Nic Werk singled around a walk to Davis Carr to load the bases. Carter Sintek and Five Jackrabbit pitchers combined for only two strikeouts while issuing 10 walks and three hit batters. Hits were even at eight per team. Bellows was the lone Jackrabbit with two hits, while Tanaka and Logan Campbell each tallied two hits for ORU. NOTES Oral Roberts has won all seven games against the Jackrabbits this season and improved to 19-0 all-time against SDSU in Summit League tournament games SDSU dropped to 20-26 overall in 14 Summit League Baseball Championship appearances Bryce Ronken singled in the eighth inning to reach base safely for the 30th consecutive game Ronken made his first start in right field since April 11, after 15 consecutive games as the Jackrabbits' designated hitter Nolan Grawe extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a fourth-inning single Sintek registered his 75th hit of the season with an infield single in the sixth inning Madison made his team-leading 22nd appearance of the season Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Former Vermont basketball player is returning to the Catamounts
Jackson Skipper is returning to Vermont basketball. The former Catamount — who left Burlington to play at Oral Roberts this past winter — is transferring back to Vermont, The Athletic's Tobias Bass reported on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, on Monday afternoon. Skipper also announced his commitment to Vermont on social media. Advertisement The 6-foot-6, 190-pound Skipper spent his first two collegiate seasons at Vermont, redshirting the 2022-23 year and playing a reserve role in 2023-24, averaging 7.1 minutes per contest in 11 appearances, as Vermont completed an America East championship three-peat. Skipper started 11 of 26 games for Oral Roberts, Skipper's hometown school located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He put up averages of 4.9 points and 2.3 rebounds per game while shooting 36.1% on his 3-point attempts. He reached double figures four times, including a career-high 20 points in a 92-54 victory over Texas A&M-Texarkana in December. Oral Roberts went 7-23 this past season, losing in the play-in game of the Summit League tournament. Advertisement Vermont previously picked up forwards Gus Yalden, Ben Michels and Trey Woodyard via the transfer portal this offseason. Head coach John Becker and his Vermont staff still need to fill three more scholarship spots for the 2025-26 campaign. Contact Alex Abrami at aabrami@ Follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter: @aabrami5. This article originally appeared on Burlington Free Press: Vermont basketball: Transfer Jackson Skipper returning to Catamounts
Indianapolis Star
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
Carmel's Alex Couto will play Division I basketball for staff with plenty of Indiana ties
Alex Couto is taking a different path to college than he originally anticipated. The Carmel High School senior guard committed Oral Roberts on Friday during a visit to campus. Couto, a point guard, had been committed to Huntington University until coach Kory Alford left to become the associate head coach at Oral Roberts. 'Oral Roberts stood out to me in many ways, but the main reason was the culture they are wanting to build, and they are a very faith-based program,' Couto said. 'Also, the coaching staff. They are two feet bought in with everything that they do, and I couldn't be more happy with this decision to continue this next chapter in my life.' Kory Barnett was hired as the Oral Roberts coach in late March. Barnett had served on Indiana coach Darian DeVries' staff at West Virginia last season and previously spent five years at Nevada and six at UCLA on Steve Alford's staff. Barnett is a Rochester, Ind., native who played at IU from 2009-12. Couto was one of the state's top guards as a senior but injured his knee — a sprain of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) and bone bruise — and missed the final six weeks of the season. In Carmel's first 11 games, he played all but five minutes, averaging 12.6 points, 4.0 assists, 3.7 rebounds and 1.2 steals, shooting 43.1% (25-for-58) from the 3-point line. 'I've never coached a kid that played with so much joy, passion and love for the game,' Carmel coach Ryan Osborn said. 'His presence alone lifts everyone up.' Oral Roberts struggled to a 7-23 record last season. The Golden Eagles made a run to the Sweet 16 in 2021 as a No. 15 seed, defeating Ohio State and Florida before losing to Arkansas by two points at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. ORU made the NCAA tournament again in 2023, finishing with a 30-5 record. Coach Paul Mills left after that season for Wichita State.
USA Today
02-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
USC baseball gains more NCAA Tournament projections heading into stretch run
USC baseball gains more NCAA Tournament projections heading into stretch run USC is getting multiple favorable projections from the experts. Now the Trojans need to close the deal and not stumble before the baseball tournament selection show USC baseball is currently on a roll. The Trojans have won seven consecutive series, and currently sit at 30-14 on the season heading into a massive three-game series with crosstown rival UCLA this weekend. On Wednesday, Baseball America released its latest projected field for the 2025 NCAA Tournament. The projection has the Trojans in the field as the No. 3 seed in the Fayetteville regional. The Trojans would travel to the state of Arkansas, where the top seed in their region would be the No. 7 overall seed Razorbacks. The No. 2 seed in the region would be UTSA, and the No. 4 seed would be Oral Roberts. Under third-year head coach Andy Stankiewicz, USC is having its best season in years. The Trojans have not been to the NCAA Tournament since 2015, and have gone just once in the past two decades. This year, USC looks to be in great position to end the streak. First, however, the Trojans still have three more Big Ten series in which they will need to take care of business, in addition to two more midweek nonconference games. After the Crosstown Showdown this weekend, USC will host Michigan State the following weekend, before wrapping up the regular season in Seattle against Washington. The Trojans will then travel to Omaha, Nebraska for the Big Ten Tournament at the end of May.
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.
