PORTLAND, Ore. – Strong pitching and defense led Oregon Tech to a doubleheader sweep at Warner Pacific, as the Hustlin' Owls ran their win streak to seven with 3-0 and 8-1 wins at Joe Etzel Field.
 
OIT (14-4, 6-2 CCC) got home runs from Tyler Horner and Michael O'Daniel, while Patrick Barry broke the Pacific Northwest small college hit streak record, extending his mark to 34-in-a-row with hits in both games.
 
Tim Williams dominated the Knights (3-9, 2-6) in the opener, throwing eight innings of 2-hit ball, striking out eight. The right-hander retired 14-in-a-row at one point, with no WPU runner in the game reaching third base.
 
Horner staked Tech to a 1-0 lead in the first with his eighth homer of the season – moving within four of the all-time Cascade Conference record. Matthew Ortiz delivered the other two runs, doubling home a run in the fifth, while knocking home a run with a safety-squeeze in the seventh.
 
Korrey Siracusa was 3-for-4 and Horner was 2-for-5 in the victory.
 
In Game 2, the Owls took a 5-0 lead after two innings – as O'Daniel hit a 2-run homer to cap a 3-run first inning. An inning later, a run scored on a throwing error on a Siracusa double, with Julien Jones lifting the first of two sacrifice flies in the game.
 
WPU had their best chance in the fifth, loading the bases with no outs. Landon Cheney buckled down, getting a strikeout and two ground outs to limit the Knights to just one run.
 
The Tech offense provided insurance, as a Garrett Smith RBI double in the eighth extended the lead, with the Owls adding two runs in the ninth.
 
Cheney allowed six hits in six innings for the victory, with Barry and Ka'ala Tam each recording two hits.
 
The two teams close out the series tomorrow with an 11 a.m. doubleheader.