Oklahoma State Baseball Comes Up Short Against DBU

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State dropped a nationally ranked matchup Tuesday night at O’Brate Stadium with an 8-7 loss to No. 19 Dallas Baptist.

With the loss, the 15th ranked Cowboys fell to 25-12, while DBU improved to 27-8.

Nolan Schubart led the Pokes with a 2-for-4 night that included a home run and three RBIs, while Ian Daugherty also had a pair of hits and went deep.

The Cowboys used seven pitchers in the contest, with that group combining for 16 strikeouts. Carson Benge took the loss to fall to 0-1, while in his first career start, Dominick Reid worked three innings, striking out six and allowing four runs.

The Patriots jumped out to a 1-0 advantage in the first with an RBI single from Michael Dattalo, but the Pokes had a quick answer in the bottom of the inning.

Leadoff hitter Kollin Ritchie reached on a hit by pitch, and Benge delivered a one-out single up the middle. Schubart then drove in his first run with a single and a fielding error on the play allowed a second run to score. Later in the frame, a Jaxson Crull sac fly pushed the OSU lead to 3-1.

Singular runs were added from both teams in the second as Nathan Humphreys hit a solo shot to center field for DBU, and Daugherty went deep for the Pokes, marking his second-straight game with a homer and his fourth round tripper of the season.

DBU answered with a two-run homer in the third to knot the game at 4-4.

The Cowboys loaded the bases to start the fourth inning but only brought one runner home on a fielder’s choice RBI by Benge.

With OSU leading 5-4, Ryan Bogusz, who came on in relief of Reid, shut down the Patriots for three innings, picking up four strikeouts and allowing only two hits.

DBU homered for the third and fourth times in the seventh and eighth innings to regain the lead at 6-5, but the Patriots weren’t on top for long.

In the bottom of the eighth, Zach Ehrhard reached base on an error, and two batters later, Schubart smashed a two-out, two-run bomb to create a one run advantage for the Cowboys. The go-ahead homer was his seventh of the season. 

Schubart’s late game heroics weren’t enough as the Patriots delivered their fifth home run of the contest in the ninth, a two-run shot to right field off the bat of Chayton Krauss, to go up, 8-7.

OSU would bring the winning run to the plate three times in the ninth after a leadoff walk to Crull, but the Cowboys failed to score.

Up next, OSU hits the road for a Big 12 series at Kansas State. Friday’s series opener is scheduled for a 6 p.m. first pitch.