Baseball Team Completes Sweep of Southern Illinois

April 03, 2003 | Cowboy Baseball

The Cowboys (4-4) won the third game of the three game series against Southern Illinois, 8-6, Sunday afternoon.

Southern Illinois, a Division I school, scored first in the second inning, its only lead of the three games. Oklahoma State rallied in the bottom half of the fourth inning, with senior Steve Hill hitting a three-run home run to take the lead.

Oklahoma State would later get a pair of runs in the seventh inning to close the game.

Oklahoma State head coach Tom Holliday celebrated his 50th win of his head coaching career..

Oklahoma State will continue its homestand Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 2 p.m. against Centenary.

Oklahoma State 8, Southern Illinois 6
Southern Illinois 010 100 400 - 6 8 3
Oklahoma State 000 311 21 - 8 11 2

Dreier, Prata (6) and Puffinbarger. Heuring, Pecoraro (6) and Phelan.
W- Prata, 1-0. L- Pecoraro, 0-1. Sv- none.
HR- OSU - Lucca (4), Holliday (2), Hill (1).