TOPEKA, Kan. – The Washburn baseball team lost to Central Oklahoma on Saturday afternoon, 12-3. The rubber match of the series will be Sunday at 1 p.m. 
  
Central Oklahoma (21-14, 13-9 MIAA) jumped out to an early lead after scoring three runs in the top of the second. The Bronchos went up 4-0 after pushing a run across in the fourth.
 
Washburn (24-12, 14-8 MIAA) got on the board in the bottom of the fifth. Otto Jones and Cale Savage worked back-to-back walks and Parker Dunn hit a single up the middle to bring in a run to make it 4-1.
 
Errors proved costly for the Ichabods in the sixth as UCO scored four runs on two hits and three errors to extend its lead to 8-1.
 
The Bronchos would go on to score four more times over the next three innings with three of those runs being unearned.
 
In the bottom of the ninth, Andrew Schmidtlein and Jones started off the frame with two-straight full count walks and moved up into scoring position after a groundout. Dunn stepped up to the plate and knocked in a pair of runs with a single to centerfield to round out the scoring of the 12-3 game.
 
UCO out hit WU, 10-7, and there was only one extra base hit apiece for each team. Dunn drove in all three of Washburn's runs and had two hits on the afternoon. Cal Watkins also recorded two hits.
 
Jack Brimacombe received the loss after allowing four runs on four hits and five walks to go with three strikeouts.