ALPINE, Texas – Scoring nine runs in three innings and ending the game on a triple play, East Texas Baptist University swept the entire series over Sul Ross State University, 15-11. ETBU scored 50 runs in three games played at the historic Kokernot Field moving to 5-4 n the year and 3-0 in the ASC.
 
Peyton Miller earned the win in relief going five innings recording nine strikeouts giving up three earned runs. Jagger Neely received the start and went 2.2 innings with four strikeouts giving up three earned runs. Jacob Sherman was in 0.1 innings and Trent Clark pitched an inning giving up just one hit.
 
ETBU had six extra base hits with three home runs, two doubles, and a triple. Brett Wagner had both a home run and triple while Jase Jones and Nick Massarini recorded a home run. Jake Miller and Jacob Evangelista had doubles.
 
Wagner led the team going 3-of-5 for four RBI as Parker Perez was 3-of-5 for two RBI. Jordan Hara had one hit and three RBI and as Nick Massarini had two RBI and Evangelista one RBI.
 
In the first inning, Wagner homered to right center field for two runs to make it 3-0. SRSU tied the game at three in the bottom of the inning only to see ETBU add three more in the second. Perez had a two RBI single to make it 6-3. SRSU did get one run back to come within two, 6-4, in the bottom of the second. Jones homered in the third inning and then Hara had a two RBI single for a 9-4 lead. SRSU came within one in the fourth inning, 9-8, but ETBU scored two in the sixth to make it 11-8.
 
Once again, SRSU fought back to make it a one-run game in the seventh inning, 11-10. ETBU then added four runs in the eighth to go up 15-11. Massarini had a two-run home run in the inning as two of the four runs.
 
No runs were scored in the top of the ninth and then ETBU turned a triple play to end the game.
 
ETBU will host Concordia University Texas next weekend in ASC play.