MARSHALL, Texas – Making the final game of the series with Texas-Dallas the most exciting, #5 East Texas Baptist University's Tauryn Cummings hit a walk-off line drive home run in the bottom of the seventh inning for a 5-4 win to sweep the Comets. The GO GOLD GAME for Childhood Cancer also featured the first pitch by Maddie Skinner who is a pen pal with Maleia Taylor. ETBU also has a pen pal ministry through the team as the players write to people who have been going through difficult times. ETBU is now 16-3 overall and 12-3 in the American Southwest Conference.

Cummings had three-hits on the day and one RBI to lead the team. Hannah Garcia would drive in four RBI on three hits to be ETBU's spark plug offensively. Hannah Kelley received the win coming in relief pitching five scoreless innings allowing just two hits and picking up three strikeouts.

Two batters into ETBU's first inning, Garcia would drive in Mariah Delgado with a single and an early 1-0 lead. After the Comets tied the score in the second, Garcia would then come through with a two-run double in the bottom half of the second inning to go up, 3-1. By the time the third inning ended, UTD scored three runs while holding ETBU to a bases-loaded jam to take a 4-3 lead.

Garcia once again came through with her fourth RBI of the game in the fourth inning on a double to tie the game at four. In the sixth inning, UTD had runners at the corners with two outs before Kelley recorded a big third out to keep the game tied. The next two half-innings would be scoreless and tied at four going to the bottom of the seventh inning. With one out, Cummings crushed a 3-2 line drive fastball that went over the left field fence for the walk-off winner.

ETBU will be on the road next week to take on Louisiana College on Friday and Saturday. Friday's doubleheader will start at 4:00 PM and 6:30 PM.