OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (February 20, 2022) – Lubbock Christian University hit a season-high six home runs, with Tyla Lee providing a pair and a career-high five RBI, and picked up their first run-rule win over a nationally ranked opponent since gets their first run-rule win over a ranked foe since Mar. 13, 2013 with a 13-5 victory in five innings over No.14 Rogers State Sunday to close out LCU's stay at the Regional Festival.  LCU went 5-0 at the Regional Festival and they leave Oklahoma on a 12-game win streak.
 
GAME INFORMATION
Score:  LCU 13, Rogers State 5 (Final in 5 inn.)
Records: LCU (12-2), RSU (14-2)
Location: Oklahoma City, Okla. (Tom Heath Field)
Time of Game: 1:34
Weather: 52F – Partly cloudy, Wind-22mph to LCF

LCU Highlights:

• Tyla Lee – 3-for-3, 2 home runs, 5 RBI
• Brooke Makemson – 3-for-4, home run, 2 RBI
• Kasey Flores – 2-for-2, 1 RBI, triple, home run

Turning Point:
After giving up a 2-0 lead by allowing three runs in the top of the second inning, LCU's Tyla Lee and Skylar Herrera hit back-to-back home runs to regain the lead back to a two-run advantage.

How it Happened:
The Lady Chaps manufactured runs early in the game and took a 2-0 lead in the second inning, as Angela Donaldson singled in Riley Lunsford and Athena Muniz hit a pinch-hit sacrifice fly.
 
The Hillcats responded with Nicole Price scoring on a wild pitch and a two-run home run from Jaylan Gibson in the top of the third inning for a 3-2 RSU lead. LCU matched the three runs in the bottom half of the inning. With two outs, Brooke Makemson reached on a single and Lee and Herrera followed with back-to-back home runs for a 5-3 advantage.
 
After a 1-2-3 top of the fourth inning, LCU exploded for six runs off six hits in the home half. Kamryn Gibbs (two-run), Makemson (two-run), Tyla Lee and Kasey Flores each went deep in the inning, as LCU hit four home runs in the frame for an 11-3 lead.
 
RSU's Jaylan Gibson connected with a two-run home run in the top of the fifth inning, but LCU matched it in the bottom of the inning with a two-run bases-loaded single from Lee, which walked the game off due to the run rule.        

Inside the Numbers:

• Maxine Valdez improved to 6-1 on the season. She went 4.2 innings and allowed five runs off five hits, while striking out four batters. Mattye Tyler faced one batter in the fifth and struck out the batter.  
• LCU's six home runs were the most since hitting eight against Newman on Mar.7, 2014.
• Tyla Lee posted a career-high five RBI and she matched a career-high in home runs with two. She is the last Lady Chap to have a two-home run game, as she did it Mar. 26, 2021 at Texas A&M-Commerce, who was ranked No.2 and it was LCU's last win over a ranked opponent. Lee has four home runs on the season and 11 in her Lady Chaps career.
• LCU improved to 1-1 this season against nationally ranked programs. The last win via the run-rule against a nationally ranked program was Mar. 13, 2013 against No.6 Oklahoma City, which was when LCU was a NAIA member, marking this win as their first run-rule win over a nationally ranked program since joining the NCAA.
• Kasey Flores had a triple in the second inning and it was the first career triple for Flores, who spent the prior three seasons playing at UTEP.
• Brooke Makemson's two-run blast was her third home run of the season and her 13^th of her LCU career.
• Lee has been part of all three of LCU's back-to-back home run scenarios this season, as she has joined Skylar Herrera for two of the back-to-back home run connections this season.
• Herrera leads LCU with five home runs on the season. Her solo blast Sunday was her 17^th of her LCU career.
• Kamryn Gibbs surpassed last season's home run total (2) with her two-run home run in the fourth inning, which was her third of the season and the fifth of her LCU career.
• LCU was 5-for-6 with runners in scoring position and 7-of-12 with runners on base. Makemson and Lee were each 2-for-2 with runners on base.
• Lee hit .688 for the combined five games in Oklahoma, going 11-for-16 at the plate with three doubles, two home runs and eight RBI. She had a .667 on-base percentage and a 1.250 slugging mark in the five games.
• The meeting was the 44^th all-time meeting between the two programs and LCU improved to 34-10 all-time against the Hillcats.

 
WHAT'S NEXT:
LCU closes their Oklahoma stay Sunday morning facing No.14 Rogers State at 10 a.m. in Oklahoma City on the campus of Oklahoma Christian.