LONGVIEW – LeTourneau University's baseball team lost the final two games of the four-game home-and-home series with Centenary Saturday, falling 5-3 and 11-4.
 
The YellowJackets fell to 5-9, while Centenary improved to 13-2.
 
LETU took a 2-0 lead in the first game on an RBI single to right by Noah Arellano and Dane Jones' RBI walk. Centenary scored three runs in the sixth to go up, 3-2. Jones' RBI single up the middle in the bottom of the sixth tied the game. But the Gents scored a pair of unearned runs with two outs in the eighth, and the Jackets went quietly in their final at-bats to end it.
 
LeTourneau starter Kolbey Sharpe went 5 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on three hits and three walks. Centenary starter Preston Ludwick worked five innings, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks. Parker Primeaux picked up the win in relief. Luke Royle got the save. Kolton Eberlan took the loss in relief, despite being victimized by an eighth inning error that opened the door for the two runs to score. He allowed three hits and no walks over the final two innings.
 
Arellano had two hits, and drove in a run in his three plate appearances. Cody Stanley went 1-for-3, and scored a run. Jones was 1-for-4 with two RBI. Weston McKinley had a hit.
 
In the second game, the Gents built a five-run lead by the third inning. LeTourneau scored all four runs in the bottom of the third on Stanley's three-run home run and Arellano's RBI single. But Centenary scored in each of the next four innings to put the game away.
 
Stanley was 3-for-4. Jones, Bryce Brueggemeyer, Anthony Ybarra and Arellano each had a hit.
 
Centenary starter Jacob Colby went 2 1/3 innings, allowing four runs, three hits and a walk. Andy Purpura tossed 3 2/3 innings in relief, allowing two hits, no runs and no walks, while striking out five.
 
LeTourneau starter Dylan Cloonan gave up three runs on two hits and a walk.
 
The Jackets will play at McMurry Friday and Saturday in a return to American Southwest Conference play.