BY OAKLEE FIELDER
The Rangers split the week as they won two and lost two after a three-game series against Oklahoma Baptist and a game against Washburn University.
The Rangers won their first two games against the Oklahoma Baptist Bisons, but lost the final game against OBU and lost to the Washburn Ichabods.
The first win over the Bison was a huge 21-8 victory. The scoring slowed down in the following game as the Rangers only scored nine. Northwestern lost by ten in game three, and lost by two to Washburn.
NWOSU 21-8 OBU
Chase Gordon had a jaw-dropping six RBIs in game one against the Bison, and he opened the scoring. Gordon hit a single to sent Alex Dabrowski home. Joel Lindahl hit a single to center field, sending Gordon home. In the following inning, Gordon hit a sacrifice fly, sending Brandon Jennings and Dabrowski home after an error by second base. The Bison responded with four runs in the third, tying the game.
The game continued to be tied through the fourth inning as both teams scored two runs, making it a 6-6 game. Then, Northwestern scored seven unanswered runs in the fifth to give them a huge lead. Gordon hit a four-run grand slam homerun in the fifth, taking him, Blake Mattern, Dabrowski and Jennings home.
The Rangers scored one in the sixth. The Bison scored twice in the eighth, cutting the Rangers’ lead down to six. The Rangers had another seven-run inning in the top of the ninth, giving them the 21-8 lead that they would win with.
Jennings hit a homerun in the top of the ninth, one of his two hits and three runs scored. Gordon, Jason McCarty and Lindahl had three hits apiece. Gordon had six RBIs and Mattern had three. Will Kates, Elias Herrera, Ryan McClaskey and Alex Figueroa all pitched in game one against OBU. Kates and Herrera had three strikeouts apiece.
NWOSU 9-0 OBU
The Rangers won in the seven-inning game two against Oklahoma Baptist. Cole Barton and Jailon Goodfellow had good games in the batter’s box as they both had three hits and three RBIs.
The game had no score until the third inning, where Dabrowski hit a single which allowed Matthew Bailey to run home and score. Then in the fifth, Dabrowski hit a double sending Goodfellow home. Barton was next, and hit a single to right field, sending Jennings home. Goodfellow had a homerun in the sixth, giving Northwestern three runs. Barton then sent two runners home with a single to left field. Later, the Bison pitcher walked Lindahl with the bases loaded, handing the Rangers another point.
Barton and Goodfellow were the best hitters in game two, followed by Lindahl with two hits and one RBI. Logan Sandoval pitched all game and had seven strikeouts.
NWOSU 1-11 OBU
The Rangers dropped game three against the Bison as Oklahoma Baptist had a large win over Northwestern.
The Bison scored all 11 of their runs in the first three innings. The Rangers had responded in the fourth with a single to shortstop by Barton to send Mattern home. Mattern and Gordon had two hits apiece. Kyle Holzer, Kaden Spray and Trey Barkman were the pitchers in game three. Barkman had four strikeouts.
NWOSU 0-2 WASH
The Rangers lost another in the game against Washburn University. The game spent the first six innings scoreless. In the seventh, the Ichabods scored once, leading into another run scored in the eighth.
Gordon and Barton had two hits apiece. Nathan Nunez, Figueroa, Austin Maddox, Spray and McClaskey all pitched against the Ichabods. Nunez, Maddox and Spray had one strikeout apiece.
The next games for the Rangers are three games against Henderson State this weekend, and a neutral site game against Southern Nazarene in Enid at David Allen Ballpark on Tuesday.