SHAWNEE - Ryan Joyce went 5 for 6 with three home runs and scored the winning run in the second game as Oklahoma Baptist completed a three-game sweep of Arkansas Tech with wins of 13-4 and 6-5 Monday.
Joyce finished the series with a 2.111 slugging percentage with four home runs and seven hits in nine at bats. He was seven for nine with four home runs and eight RBI in the three games.
"I just saw the ball well," Joyce said.
OBU broke out of the gates early in the first game, getting an RBI double by Kevin Olmeda in the first inning before the Bison racked up six runs in the second.
Trevor Ezell drew a bases-loaded walk and Dustyn Cook added an RBI single for a 3-0 lead. Olmeda produced an RBI fielder's choice and Brandon Cuddy added an RBI double for a 5-0 advantage. Joyce finished off the scoring in the second with a two-run single.
The Wonder Boys broke up the shutout in the fourth on an RBI single by Collin O'Neil, but OBU had the answer with back-to-back home runs in the home half by Cuddy and Joyce.
Tech added three runs in the fifth on Kaleb Warden's first home run of the season.
The Bison got one in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Joyce and three in the seventh on Kyle Abblitt's first home run, an RBI single by Hunter Heath and a sacrifice fly by Felipe Gonzalez.
OBU hammered out 20 hits in the win, including four by Cuddy, three each by Joyce and Ezell and two apiece by Cook and Joseph Moran.
Mike Gould picked up the win with 3.2 scoreless innings of relief, fanning five batters.
In the second game, Arkansas Tech scored the first three runs on a three-run home run by Warden.
Joyce hit a two-run home run to left in the bottom of the first to get OBU on the scoreboard, trailing 3-2.
That score stood until the sixth when Joyce blasted his third home run of the day, fourth of the series and Great American Conference-leading eighth of the season over the center field wall to tie the score. After a pair of Bison walks, Moran singled in Heath for a 4-3 lead.
ATU scored twice in the top of the seventh on a home run by Kyle Love and an RBI single by Michael Post.
Ezell led off the seventh with a double and moved to third on a ground out by Olmeda. With two outs, Joyce drew a walk and stole second. Down to their last strike, OBU got a solidly hit ball up the middle by Heath. Pitcher Ryan Vruggink lost his glove in a wild attempt to flag the ball and shortstop O'Neill fielded the ball behind second base. His late throw to first was in the dirt and skipped past the first basemen. Heath got an RBI for the single and Joyce scored the winner on the throw.
"I didn't really see what happened," Joyce said. "I was running to third and CC (Assistant Coach Chris Cox) was waving his arms like a little madman."
OBU had seven hits in the game with Joyce getting two.
Carson McPherson (3-0) got the win with 5.2 innings of relief, fanning eight batters while allowing two runs.
