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OKLAHOMA CITY – The NAIA Region VI baseball championships happen starting Tuesday at Jim Wade Stadium on the campus of Oklahoma City University.
Top-ranked Lubbock Christian, fourth-ranked Oklahoma City, No. 12 Wayland Baptist and No. 18 Texas Wesleyan are among the teams vying for the regional title and the right to play in the NAIA Mid-South Super Regional. Sooner Athletic Conference tournament finalist Oklahoma Baptist and Red River Athletic Conference tournament champion Northwood (Texas) round out the field.
Sooner Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament champ Lubbock Christian (50-2) will be led by SAC coach of the year Nathan Blackwood. Junior third baseman Will Stramp has hit .420 with 21 home runs and 74 RBIs, while all-SAC junior pitcher Gary Poynter has gone 13-1 with a 2.72 earned run average for the Chaparrals. Lubbock Christian meets Northwood at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
OCU (49-10) will be led by all-SAC junior third baseman Brent Weaver, who has a .439 average, 23 homers and 81 RBIs, and senior first baseman David Dennis, who has hit .399 with 24 homers and 94 RBIs. Junior all-conference left-hander David Odquist leads the Stars pitching staff with 10 wins to go with 92 strikeouts. OCU takes on Texas Wesleyan at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Wayland Baptist (43-14-1) boasts of junior all-SAC outfielder-pitcher Todd Jeffress, who has nine home runs and 36 RBIs as a hitter and an 11-4 record and 3.10 ERA as a hurler. Wayland Baptist faces Oklahoma Baptist at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Texas Wesleyan (40-14) will be led by all-Red River junior shortstop Butch Ballez, who has hit .430 with nine homers and 59 RBIs.
Oklahoma Baptist (43-14) has SAC player of the year Justin Collazo as its ring leader. Collazo, a junior first baseman, has hit .433 with 22 homers and 100 RBIs.
Red River tournament champ Northwood (26-23) is led by senior outfielder Justin Parks, who has hit .363 with nine homers and 53 RBIs.
The title game will be 1 p.m. Friday at Jim Wade Stadium. An if-necessary game would be following that game.
The Region VI champion will meet the Region V champ in the Mid-South Super Regional on May 15-17. The Mid-South Super Regional will be at the home field of the Region VI champ. The winner of the best-two-out-of-three series super regional will advance to the NAIA World Series on May 23-30 in Lewiston, Idaho.





