The Basics
Oral Roberts 3 - Arkansas Pine-Bluff 2
Oral Roberts (1-0) – Arkansas Pine-Bluff (0-1)
Location: Tulsa, Okla (Chapman Park)
Win: Weston Rouse (1-0), Loss: Kenney Fabian (0-1), Save: Conner Floyd (1)
 
TULSA, Okla – The Oral Roberts baseball team kicked off the 2025 season with a 3-2 win over Arkansas Pine-Bluff Friday afternoon from Chapman Park.
 
Oklahoma State transfer Weston Rouse took the bump for ORU to start the season opener and impressed in his debut. Rouse went 5.0 innings, surrendering one unearned run, walked one batter, and struck out a career-high eight batters. 
 
The Golden Eagles got the scoring started in the third inning as Wailele Kane-Yates hit a sacrifice fly to left field, driving in Jack Schark, who led the inning off by getting hit by a pitch. 
 
In the fourth inning, it was more of the same as ORU tacked on two more runs with a Schark double down the left-field line, scoring Keaton Campbell. Later in the frame, the second half of the Hawaiian duo and Pre-Season All-Summit League First Team recipient Makani Tanaka would get walked to drive in Martell Davis. 
 
The Golden Eagle bullpen threw four innings of relief, starting with 3.0 quality frames from Jared Ure. The red-shirt senior gave up four hits and struck out three in a scoreless outing. Conner Floyd followed him up and shut the door in the ninth, surrendering an unearned run and striking out one, earning his first save of 2025. 
 
Inside the Box Score

• Will Edmundson and Jack Schark both put together two-hit performances
• ORU had two batters hit by a pitch, one leading to an RBI
• Weston Rouse's 5.0 inning, eight strikeout day was done on just 85 pitches

Game Notes

• Rouse's 8 strikeouts are a career-high

Up Next
The Golden Eagles will play Arkansas Pine-Bluff in game two of a doubleheader from Chapman Park at 4:15 p.m. Friday afternoon.
 
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