Upcoming Event: Baseball versus Oral Roberts on April 19, 2026 at 1 p.m.
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1 p.m.
Baseball
vs Oral Roberts
South Dakota State University Athletics
Saturday, April 18
Brookings, S.D.
3 p.m.
South Dakota State University
12-3
2
vs
18
Oral Roberts
22-14
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Roberts | 0 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 0 |
| South Dakota State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Photo by: Dave Eggen/Inertia
JACKS FALL VICTIM TO ORU AMBUSH
4/18/2026 7:15:00 PM | Baseball
Oral Roberts put together consecutive big innings to defeat South Dakota State, 18-2 in seven innings, in Summit League baseball Saturday afternoon at Erv Huether Field.
The league-leading Golden Eagles improved to 22-14 overall and 13-1 in The Summit League. SDSU dropped to 12-23 overall and 6-8 in league play.
After a scoreless first inning, all four of ORU's hits in the second frame went for extra bases as the Golden Eagles scored six times. Following a one-out walk to Cooper Kelly, Cooper Combs connected on a two-run home run to left field. Matthew Mainord tripled ahead of a three-run homer by Will Edmunson and Wailele Kane-Yates capped the outburst with a run-scoring double.
Things went from bad to worse for the Jackrabbits in the third inning as the Golden Eagles struck for eight runs against the SDSU bullpen. Jackrabbit reliever Drew McDowell walked the first two batters of the frame before Mainord hit his first home run of the season to push the ORU lead to 9-0. Kane-Yates notched his second RBI double in as many innings and Martell Davis and Kelly added run-scoring singles before Ethan Fender tacked on a two-run single.
The Golden Eagles added two runs in the fourth inning and another in the top of the fifth on Kane-Yates' third run-scoring hit of the afternoon to increase the lead to 17-0.
SDSU averted being shut out with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth. Nic Werk opened the inning with a single before ORU starter Nathan Love ran into trouble with his command as he walked four batters in a row, including Nolan Grawe and pinch-hitter Mason Lang with the bases loaded to force in runs.
Hudson Ellis closed out the scoring for ORU with an RBI single in the sixth inning.
The Golden Eagles finished with a 15-5 advantage in hits and were led by Kane-Yates' 3-for-4 performance. SDSU's five hits were scattered among five different players, including Nolan Grawe, who recorded the Jackrabbits' only extra-base hit with a double in the seventh inning that extended his hitting streak to 16 games.
Sam Novotny took the loss for the Jackrabbits despite striking out five batters in two innings. Logan Campbell was the lone SDSU hurler out of six to not allow a run as he pitched a scoreless top of the seventh.
Will Yeary earned the win for Oral Roberts as he pitched 1 2/3 innings after relieving Love in the fifth.
ON DECK
The finale of the three-game series is set for 1 p.m. Sunday
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The league-leading Golden Eagles improved to 22-14 overall and 13-1 in The Summit League. SDSU dropped to 12-23 overall and 6-8 in league play.
After a scoreless first inning, all four of ORU's hits in the second frame went for extra bases as the Golden Eagles scored six times. Following a one-out walk to Cooper Kelly, Cooper Combs connected on a two-run home run to left field. Matthew Mainord tripled ahead of a three-run homer by Will Edmunson and Wailele Kane-Yates capped the outburst with a run-scoring double.
Things went from bad to worse for the Jackrabbits in the third inning as the Golden Eagles struck for eight runs against the SDSU bullpen. Jackrabbit reliever Drew McDowell walked the first two batters of the frame before Mainord hit his first home run of the season to push the ORU lead to 9-0. Kane-Yates notched his second RBI double in as many innings and Martell Davis and Kelly added run-scoring singles before Ethan Fender tacked on a two-run single.
The Golden Eagles added two runs in the fourth inning and another in the top of the fifth on Kane-Yates' third run-scoring hit of the afternoon to increase the lead to 17-0.
SDSU averted being shut out with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth. Nic Werk opened the inning with a single before ORU starter Nathan Love ran into trouble with his command as he walked four batters in a row, including Nolan Grawe and pinch-hitter Mason Lang with the bases loaded to force in runs.
Hudson Ellis closed out the scoring for ORU with an RBI single in the sixth inning.
The Golden Eagles finished with a 15-5 advantage in hits and were led by Kane-Yates' 3-for-4 performance. SDSU's five hits were scattered among five different players, including Nolan Grawe, who recorded the Jackrabbits' only extra-base hit with a double in the seventh inning that extended his hitting streak to 16 games.
Sam Novotny took the loss for the Jackrabbits despite striking out five batters in two innings. Logan Campbell was the lone SDSU hurler out of six to not allow a run as he pitched a scoreless top of the seventh.
Will Yeary earned the win for Oral Roberts as he pitched 1 2/3 innings after relieving Love in the fifth.
ON DECK
The finale of the three-game series is set for 1 p.m. Sunday
NOTES
- Oral Roberts leads the all-time series, 88-23, and has won the last 14 meetings
- Grawe's double was his team-leading 14th of the season as he also extended his streak of reaching base safely to 18 games
- Grawe's 16-game hitting streak is tied for the sixth-longest by a Jackrabbit in the Division I era (since 2005) with Nick Adams (2006) and Luke Ringhofer (2017)
- Nic Werk has reached base in 17 consecutive games and Carter Taylor has reached base in 15 games in a row
- Luke Luskey had his career-best nine-game hitting streak come to an end
- Jackrabbit pitchers struck out 12, but also issued 12 walks Saturday after not giving up a free pass in Friday's series opener
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Yeary, Will (1-0)
L: Novotny, Sam (2-4)
Batting:
2B: Kane-Yates, Wailele 2
3B: Mainord, Matthew 1
HR: Mainord, Matthew 1 ; Combs, Cooper 1 ; Edmunson, Will 1
RBI: Mainord, Matthew 3 ; Kane-Yates, Wailele 3 ; Kelly, Cooper 1 ; Fender, Ethan 2 ; Combs, Cooper 3 ; Edmunson, Will 3 ; Ellis, Hudson 1 ; Davis, Martell 2
SF: Combs, Cooper 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Mainord, Matthew 2 ; Kane-Yates, Wailele 2 ; Tanaka, Makani 2 ; Kelly, Cooper 2 ; Fender, Ethan 1 ; Combs, Cooper 2 ; Dudding, Kole 1 ; Edmunson, Will 2 ; Ellis, Hudson 3 ; Davis, Martell 1
HBP: Kane-Yates, Wailele 1 ; Combs, Cooper 1 ; Ellis, Hudson 1
Batting:
2B: Grawe, Nolan 1
RBI: Grawe, Nolan 1 ; Lang, Mason 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Werk, Nic 1 ; Sorensen, Grant 1
HBP: Brown, Brady 1 ; Wachter, Nate 1 ; Taylor, Carter 1
Game Leaders
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3
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H
1
RBI
1
AB
1
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
AB
1
R
1
H
1
RBI
0
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