Cowboys Coast to Fourth Straight Blowout

Originally Published: Mar 16, 2010 11:9 PM CDT

Corey DeMoss
Oklahoma Sports Staff Writer

STILLWATER, Oklahoma – The Oklahoma State baseball team scored more than 10 runs for the fourth consecutive game and crushed Western Illinois 19-7 Tuesday.

The Cowboys (9-2) started quickly, scoring eight runs in the first three innings. Davis Duren and Kevin David hit back-to-back home runs to lead off the bottom of the first, and it was all downhill from there.

The first three batters of the second inning all got on base, which forced Western Illinois starting pitcher Randon Lingle out of the game. All three runners eventually scored, making Lingle responsible for five earned runs in one inning of work.

WIU got on the board in the third with a home run by Dan Dispensa, but the Cowboys immediately answered back with a homer by Dane Phillips to lead off the bottom of the inning. They added two more runs in the inning, and Davis Duren drove in two more in the fifth before the Cowboys broke the game open in the sixth.

Already up 10-3, OSU erupted for nine runs in the sixth inning. After the Cowboys chased a second pitcher, Dean Green hit a three-run homer on the first pitch thrown by Chris Fuchs. Later in the inning, WIU committed two errors on the same play to bring in two more runs. The Cowboys added two more unearned runs to finish their scoring for the day.

After Kevin Chambers and Chance Deason combined to give up three runs in the first seven innings, Logan Brunkenhoefer relieved them in the eighth and had a much tougher outing. He walked one batter, hit another, and gave up three hits and four runs in the inning. After Brunkenhoefer retired just one, Matt Klein came in and shut down the Leathernecks.

The Cowboys’ offensive explosiveness has become a trend. They have now scored 60 combined runs in their last four games and won each of them by at least nine. They still have two more games in the series against Western Illinois, with the first coming at 4 p.m. Wednesday.