Box Score

BETHANY, Okla. — Chase Glaum went 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs and a run scored as Southern Nazarene fell 11-7 to Mid America Christian.

The Crimson Storm (13-19, 6-16 SAC) twice held leads, at 5-2 and 6-5, but watched the Evangels (12-22, 8-12 SAC) hit five home runs to outlast SNU.

Mid-America Christian scored the first two runs of the game in the top of the second, but SNU answered with five in the bottom half of the inning. Chase Glaum drove home the first two with a hard ground ball that scored Austin Samulowitz and Ryan McIntosh as SNU tied the game at 2-2. Ryan Williams gave SNU a 3-2 lead with a single to center that scored Tanner Roberson. James Tunnell then drew a bases loaded walk to put SNU up 4-2 before Adam Bies hit a sacrifice fly to center that scored Derek Glenn.

The Evangels answered in the top of the third with three runs, both coming on home runs, including a two-run home run as MACU tied it at 5-5.

The Storm retook the lead at 6-5 in the bottom of the fourth on a two-out error that scored Tunnell from first.

The Evangels though took the lead back in the top of the sixth on a pair of solo home runs to jump out in front 7-6. Adrian Bravo-Carmona made it a 10-6 game when he blasted a three-run home run to left after Glaum was brought in to pitch after starter Tim Cole went the first 5.2 innings. MACU added another run in the eighth, but the Storm got that one back in the bottom half of the inning to make it 11-7. That was it for SNU who dropped its seventh straight game and eighth out of nine games.

Cole (1-5) took the loss as Sean Sanders (3-4) picked up the win for the Evangels after he went the first six innings and allowed six runs on seven hits.

SNU will close the three-game series with Mid-America Christian, Saturday, for a 3 p.m. in Oklahoma City.