NIACC baseball team splits with NOC-Enid
By The Globe Gazette staff
ENID, Okla. — On the second day of its spring break road trip, 13th-rated NIACC wound up with a split at Northern Oklahoma College-Enid Sunday.
Behind a stellar pitching performance from Iowa commit Derek Lieurance, the Trojans took Game 1 3-0.
Lieurance (3-0) struck out seven, walked two and allowed four hits in six innings of work. Lieurance has a 0.00 earned run average with 20 strikeouts and four walks in 15 innings this season.
"He was really good," NIACC coach Travis Hergert said. "He had all his pitches going, he pitched out of a few jams and he was just dominant."
Spencer Halloran provided the Trojans with a two-run home run in the win.
Game 2 came down to the bottom of the seventh, tied 7-7. With the bases loaded and one out, NOC-Enid scored the runner from third on a slow roller back to the pitcher to win the game 8-7.
The Jets rallied to score four runs in the final two innings.
"Matt Hudson (the starting pitcher) pitched really well but we just made too many miscues at inopportune times," Hergert said. "I was proud of how we continued to stick with it against some really good pitchers but we just couldn't pull it out."
Troy Bullingham brought his bat for the Trojans in Game 2 with a pair of home runs and three RBIs. Robbie Glendinning, who had four hits on the day, added a homer, and Connor Enochs and Jonathan Cruz each doubled.
It was the 14th time in the Hergert era that a player has hit two home runs in a single game and the second time in Bullingham's career that he's homered twice in the same game. Bullingham also homered twice in a game last season against Rose State College.
NIACC (10-2) is back in Enid today for a nine-inning contest with the Jets at 1 p.m.
NIACC 3, NOC-ENID 0
NIACC 100 200 0 – 3 7 0
NOC-Enid 000 000 0 – 0 4 2
Derek Lieurance (7K, 2BB), Danny Beizer (7) (0K, 0BB) and Blake Whitecotton. W – Lieurance (3-0). Save - Beizer (2). HR – Spencer Halloran (N) (2). 2B – Troy Bullingham (N) (2). Multiple hits – Robbie Glendinning (N) 2. Multiple RBIs – Halloran 2.
NOC-ENID 8, NIACC 7
NIACC 002 113 0 – 7 12 3
NOC-Enid 031 003 1 – 8 8 0
Matt Hudson (3K, 3BB), Danny Beizer (6) (2K, 2BB) and Austin LaDoux and Whitecotton (6). L – Beizer (0-1). HR – Bullingham 2 (3), Glendinning (5). 2B – Connor Enochs (N) (3), Jonathan Cruz (N) (2). Multiple hits – Bullingham 3, Glendinning 2, Halloran 2, Cruz 2. Multiple RBIs – Bullingham 3.
