EDMOND, Okla. --- A four-run fourth provided enough breathing room for the Washburn Ichabod baseball team (22-20, 13-16 MIAA) on Saturday en route to an 8-2 victory, trying the series at 1-1. The Ichabods resume action on Sunday, when they wrap up the series and their 2019 road schedule from Wendell Simmons Field with first pitch scheduled for 1 pm.
 
Washburn out hit Central Oklahoma, 11-5, with four batters notching multi-hit performances. Michael Oyervides led the effort with his third-career three-hit day, finishing the afternoon 3-for-5 with a run and four RBI.
 
Peter Shearer and Javis Larson each followed as they posted a 2-for-4 day respectively, while Lane Harvey registered a 2-for-3 outing with a pair of runs batted in.
 
After the Bronchos tallied a run in the first, Washburn evened the score during the second with a single by Larson, which pushed Peter Shearer across following a lead-off double.
 
Steven Jacobson then reached base on a two-out error in the fourth with two runners on. As a result of the Broncho miscue Oyverides scored on the play for the go-ahead run, while Larson moved from first to third. Lane Harvey then added to the cause, driving Larson and Jacobson across on his second triple of the season.
 
Oyervides then extended the Ichabod advantage from the plate, beginning in the fifth with a two-run single allowing Larson and Rorey Combs to push the Washburn margin to 6-1. Then in the ninth, another two-RBI single by Oyervides saw the Washburn lead grew to 8-2 with Mitchell Lady and Xavier De Leon crossing home for the score.
 
Central Oklahoma's only other run of the afternoon was a solo home run in the seventh.
 
With the ample run support from the offense, Washburn starter Jacob Head (3-4) was credited with the win following a dominant outing that saw him record six strikeouts and surrender two runs on five hits in a season-high eight innings of work. Head then made way for a relief appearance by Bailey Jenkins in the ninth.