South Dakota State led off the Summit League baseball season with a historic series sweep over Oral Roberts in Tulsa over the weekend.
The Jackrabbits went 3-0 over the defending conference champs to become the first team to sweep the Golden Eagles on their home field and, in doing so, got their record back to .500 at 10-10 overall.
@ Oral Roberts
The Jackrabbits’ success came behind the right-handed arm of Nic McCay who was named the Summit League Peak Pitcher of the week, which was announced Monday.
McCay started the series opener against ORU tying an SDSU Division I era single-game record recording 13 strikeouts. Brady Stover was the first to do it in a 2018 10-0 win over Fort Wayne.
The senior hurler carried a shutout into the eighth inning finishing the 5-2 win against the Golden Eagles with one earned run while allowing five hits and only two walks.
In the middle of the three game set, the Jacks jumped out to a 3-1 lead heading into a top of the sixth inning which saw five runs cross the plate including a three-run homer from Summit League Peak Performer of the week Cael Frost.
Frost finished 1-of-3 in the 12-7 win that secured the series victory putting the Jackrabbits up 2-0 over ORU.
Frost extended his hitting streak having safely reach base in 18 games straight. He also posed a .538 batting average, going 7-for-13, with two home runs, four runs batted in and eight runs scored last week notching his second Peak Performer honor of the season.
Game three was a bit tighter as the Jackrabbits cored in only the first and sixth inning en route to a 6-3 win and a series sweep.
Cade stuff led things off with a double to center field to plate two runs in the first frame. The score remained 2-0 until Dawson Parry hit a grand slam in the top of the sixth to put the Jackrabbits up by six.
ORU attempted a comeback in the bottom of the ninth scoring off of a three-run shot from Ryan Blackwell, but SDSU pitcher Alex Clemons set down the next two to secure the win.
The Jackrabbits moved the all-time series against the Golden Eagles to 74-23 all time and moved to 3-0 in Summit League play for the first time since 2017.
Up Next
The Jacks will continue on the road this weekend playing a three-game set against St. Thomas in the Twin Cities before kicking off their home slate against Northern Colorado.
Friday’s game against the Tommies will have first pitch at 3 p.m. while Saturday and Sunday’s games will start at 1 p.m. All three contests can be seen on the Summit League Network.
For coverage of the game against Creighton Tuesday night, log on at SDSUCollegian.com.
