EUGENE, Ore. -- Oral Roberts brings the nation's longest winning streak at 21 consecutive victories into its Super Regional with Oregon at the Ducks' PK Park this weekend. Game one is set for Friday at 7 p.m. CT/5 p.m. PT and will be televised on ESPNU.
The Golden Eagles started the streak back in Iowa on April 23 and has seen them win games in Oklahoma (11), Minnesota (3), Kansas (1), Illinois (3) and North Dakota (3) along the way and they will look to extend it in the Pacific Northwest as the program plays a game on Oregon soil for the first time. The 21-game winning streak is the longest ever by a Summit League program and one more overall win will give the program 50 on the season, which will tie the 2004 ORU squad for most wins in a season by a League team.
During the streak, ORU is batting .340 as a team and the pitching staff boasts a 3.17 ERA with 214 strikeouts over 190 innings. The ORU defense has committed just 12 errors during that stretch and leads all DI teams with a.984 fielding percentage on the season. First baseman Jake McMurray has hit all six of his home runs this season and driven in 24 runs during the streak, while hitting .389 at the dish.
ORU is the only DI program in the country ranked in the top five in batting average (.324; fourth), earned run average (3.83; fifth) and fielding percentage (.984; first).
EUGENE SUPER REGIONAL
• One of two Super Regionals that does not feature a national seed ... Oregon won the Nashville Regional hosted by No. 6 national seed Vanderbilt, while Oral Roberts won the Stillwater Regional hosted by No. 11 national seed Oklahoma State ... Tennessee and Southern Miss square off in the Hattiesburg Regional after both won their respective regionals as the No. 2 seed ... The Volunteers won the Clemson Regional and the Golden Eagles won the Auburn Regional.
• ORU is the eighth No. 4 seed to advance to a Super Regional since the format changed in 1999 ... South Florida was the last to do so in 2021.
• Also one of two Supers that matches up teams that also won their conference tournaments ... ORU won the Summit League Tournament title and Oregon won the Pac-12 Tournament title ... The Fort Worth Super Regional pits Big 12 Tournament champion TCU vs. Missouri Valley Tournament champion Indiana State.
• The ORU-Oregon tilt will feature teams with the nation’s longest current winning streaks ... The Golden Eagles have reeled off 21 straight victories, which is the longest ever by a Summit League team, while Oregon has reeled off nine straight entering play Friday ... TCU has also won nine straight.
• The only previous meeting between Oregon and Oral Roberts was in 1979 win the Ducks defeated the then Titans 7-5 at the Riverside (Calif.) Tournament ... The school changed the nickname to Golden Eagles in 1993.
Regional Seeds Advancing To Super Regionals
No. 1 | 9 (Alabama, Florida, Indiana State, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina, Stanford, Virginia, Wake Forest)
No. 2 | 6 (Duke, Oregon, Southern Miss, TCU, Tennessee, Texas)
No. 3 | 0
No. 4 | 1 (Oral Roberts)
TEAM TRACKER
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Next Up: at Oregon (6/9, 5 p.m. PT/7 p.m. CT; 6/10, 6 p.m. PT/8 p.m. CT, 6/11; TBD)
Stillwater Regional: at No. 11 Oklahoma State (W, 6-4); vs. Washington (W, 15-12); vs. Dallas Baptist (W, 6-5)
The Golden Eagles are back in a Super Regional for the first time since 2006 when Clemson defeated them 11-8 and 6-5 to advance to the College World Series ... That appearance was also the only other time a Summit League team advanced this far in the NCAA Tournament since Super Regionals were added in 1999 ... ORU made the Eugene Super Regional by defeating No. 11 national seed Oklahoma State for the third time this season in the opening game 6-4, then rallying from an 8-0 deficit to beat third-seeded Washington 15-12 before finishing the Stillwater sweep off with a 6-5 win over a Dallas Baptist team that had swept the Golden Eagles during the regular season ... All-American reliever Cade Denton saved all three contests for ORU and was named the Stillwater Regional Most Outstanding Player ... The Summit League Pitcher of the Year now shares the national lead with 15 saves and is now tied with Jason Market (Oral Roberts; 2000) for the Summit League single-season record ... Denton has struck out 15 batters in seven innings of work during six postseason appearances ... The Golden Eagles are batting .378 as a team in those six postseason victories ... In Summit League Tournament play, the Golden Eagles batted .376 (47-for-125) and upped that to .379 in the Stillwater Regional when ORU batted .379 (44-for-116) ... All-American centerfielder Jonah Cox extended his hitting streak to 44 games after hitting safely in all three games, going 6-for-13 (.462) in Stillwater with a team-best seven RBI ... Cox ranks fifth nationally with a .424 batting average and has hit safely in 59 of ORU’s 60 games this season ... Cox pushed his season-hit total to 106, which ranks second in the Summit League record book behind Billy Stitz’, who had 111 in 2010 for South Dakota State ... Oklahoma State’s Robin Ventura holds the Division I record at 58 games when he established that during the 1987 season when the Cowboys advanced to the CWS title game and played 72 games ... The Golden Eagles captured the program’s 21st Summit League Tournament title to advance to their 30th NCAA Tournament ... ORU has won 21 of the 23 Summit League Tournaments it has appeared in, including a run of 15 straight from 1998-2012 ... The 2023 title was the second consecutive for the Golden Eagles, who won the regular season title as well with a record of 23-1 ... This marked the 20th time that ORU won both the Summit League regular season and tournament titles in the same season since 1999 ... The Golden Eagles are now 72-7 all-time in Summit League Tournament contests ... ORU has won 39 of its last 42 games and outscored opponents 201-74 during the current 21-game winning streak, which is the longest ever by a Summit League team ... The previous best streak was 18 consecutive wins by the 1989 Missouri State Bears.
(NCBWA/D1Baseball.com Polls)
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