EJ Taylor and Tanner Neely hit two-run home runs and the Jets used a five run 5th inning to outlast Murray State in the Region 2 Tournament opener at David Allen Memorial Ballpark in Enid on Thursday.

NOC (34-16), ranked 18th in the latest NJCAA poll, will face Carl Albert at 3:30 p.m. Friday.

The Jets got on the board quick when Taylor homered to center field scoring DJ Calvert and the Jets led 2-0.

The lead expanded to 4-0 when Tanner Neely's blast to left field scored Calvert and NOC led 4-0.

Murray rallied to take a 5-4 lead in the 5th but the opportunistic Jets rallied themselves for five runs to take a 9-5 lead.  Brenden Woelfle had a two run single in the five run inning.

Calvert's sacrifice fly ended the Jets scoring Shane Nixon and the Jets led 10-5.

That was plenty of support for Kaleb McCullough and Lawson Isaacs.  Isaacs (2-2) allowed just one run and one hit over 4.1 innings of work in relief of McCullough.

Jets 10, Murray 6

              123 456 789--R   H   E

Murray    000 050 010--6   7   2

Jets        202 050 10x--10  8   1

Jets--McCullough, Isaacs (5) and Caplinger.  2B--Calvert, Nixon.  HR--Taylor, Neely.  SB--Caplinger.  W--Isaacs (2-2)