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Belton, TX – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor baseball team bounced back from Friday's loss with solid performances in a pair of must-win games and the Cru swept a doubleheader from Concordia Texas Saturday afternoon in Belton. UMHB took game one 6-1 and posted a 15-3 victory in game two. The Cru improves to 16-16 overall and 8-7 in American Southwest Conference West Division play with the two victories. The series win also gives the Cru the tiebreaker over the Tornados in the race for an ASC Tournament berth. Concordia drops to 14-19 overall and 7-8 in the ASC West Division with the two losses.
Cru outfielder
Joseph Villegas also became the ASC's all-time leader in hits with three hits in the second game. Villegas pushed his career total to 254 hits and he broke the previous mark of 252 hits set by McMurry University's Albert Carrizales from 2003-06. Villegas tied the record with an infield single in the top of the first inning of game two. He then broke the record with another infield single in the bottom of the fourth and added a triple in the eighth inning. Villegas also broke the UMHB career at-bats record by pushing his career total to 591. He broke Patrick Stanford's school record of 586 at-bats.
The Cru rode
Jared Hopper's gutsy pitching performance and some timely hitting to a 6-1 game one victory. UMHB grabbed a 3-0 lead on
Andrew White's solo home run and
Ryan Moreau's two-run double in the bottom of the first inning. Moreau added an RBI single in the third to make it a 4-0 Cru lead.
Chris Joshlin singled home a run and scored on
Seth Lynn's RBI double in the fifth to give the Cru a 6-0 lead. Concordia scored its only run on Alex Carter's sacrifice fly in the top of the sixth inning. Hopper scattered five hits and struck out seven to raise his record to 5-2. Hopper also became just the third player in UMHB history to strike out more than 200 batters in a career when he moved his total to 206. Hopper joins Bill Pearce and R.B. Garza on that short list. Moreau and Lynn had two hits apiece for UMHB in the victory. Nick Kozole had two of the Tornados five hits in the loss.
The Cru then took charge of game two with five runs in the bottom of the second and UMHB rolled to a 15-3 victory. White singled home the first run and Joshlin followed with a two-run single. Josh Frederick added a two-run homer to give the Cru a 5-0 edge. Concordia cut it to 5-1 in the top of the third, but White blasted a three-run homer in the fourth to put the Cru up 8-1. Moreau added a solo homer for the Cru in the bottom of the fifth after Concordia had cut the lead to 8-2. The two teams would also trade runs in the sixth inning before UMHB erupted for five more in the seventh.
Kyle Flynn singled home the first run,
Morgan Sloan added an RBI double, Lynn singled home two more runs and Moreau singled home the final run of the inning.
Cameron Arnett threw a complete-game six-hitter for the Cru to improve to 5-4 on the year. Arnett struck out two and walked three. White was 3-6 with four RBI for the Cru and Villegas also added three hits. Fredrick and Moreau also had two hits apiece for UMHB. Justin Beasley had two hits, including a home run for Concordia.
The Cru will return to action with a 2:00 PM non-conference home game against Texas Wesleyan University on Tuesday. UMHB will return to ASC West Division play with a three-game series at Howard Payne University next Friday and Saturday in Brownwood.
