Cowboy Baseball Win Streak Reaches Six

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State clinched a series win against Seton Hall with an 8-4 victory Saturday at O'Brate Stadium.
 
The win was the sixth in a row for the No. 7 Cowboys, who improved to 13-6 overall. Seton Hall fell to 1-15.
 
Mitchell Stone had a memorable performance on the mound against the Pirates, striking out a career-high 10 in five innings of work to notch his first win of the season. The southpaw allowed three runs on five hits to move to 1-0.
 
Five different Cowboys drove in runs in the contest. Jake Thompson continued to swing a hot bat, homering for the second-straight game and collecting two RBIs, while Nolan McLean was 2-for-4 with a home run and a double. Ian Daugherty also had a pair of hits for the Pokes.
 
OSU took control from the outset, scoring runs in each of the first five innings.
 
The Cowboys took advantage of a pair of errors in the first inning to take a 2-0 lead, and in the third, McLean crushed his team-leading fourth home run of the season, a majestic 472-foot blast to right-center field to put OSU up by three.
 
The home team tallied two runs in the third and fourth innings, scoring on a passed ball and a Marcus Brown single in the third and going up 7-0 in the fourth on Thompson's two-run homer to right field.
 
Stone shut out the Pirates over the first four innings before a three-run home run by pinch hitter Staus Pokrovsky made the score 7-3 in the fifth.
 
SHU's only other run came in the sixth off Roman Phansalkar, who worked three innings in relief of Stone and struck out three.
 
Trevor Martin pitched the ninth and recorded three strikeouts to seal the win for the Cowboys.
 
The two teams conclude the series Sunday with a game rescheduled for an 11 a.m. first pitch.