LONGVIEW – When they've got it working, these YellowJackets are dangerous. In the second game of the twilight doubleheader, LeTourneau had it working.
 
LETU split a pair with Belhaven Saturday, dropping the first game, 3-0, and winning the second, 12-2, at Conrad-Vernon Field. The series finale is set for 1 p.m. Sunday.
 
"When everything clicks, we can be a really good team," Jackets second game starter Kolbey Sharpe said after improving to 3-3 this season.
 
LeTourneau (12-16, 10-10 American Southwest Conference) pounded 13 hits in an everything's-clicking-nightcap performance to even the series. Belhaven (17-12, 12-8) mustered only four hits off two YellowJackets pitchers in Game 1. But the Blazers took advantage of a bases-loaded walk in the third inning, and two-run producing base hit off the bat of Caleb Whittle in the fourth to give starter Brett Sanchez (9-1) all the support he needed as he picked up his sixth complete game effort of the year.
 
LETU had four hits in the first game, but Sanchez's submarine delivery had the YellowJacket hitters off balance in a game they stranded three with limited opportunities. Dane Jones (0-1) allowed only one hit and a run in a hard-luck loss in his first college start, working 2 2/3 innings. Raul Martinez went the rest of the way in the seven-inning first game, giving up two runs on three hits and two walks in an unfamiliar bullpen role for him. But it was Sanchez's work on the hill in Game 1 that stole the show. He had six strikeouts, no walks in his third shutout of the season.
 
"He doesn't want to come out of the game," Blazers coach Kyle Palmer said between games, speaking frankly about his ace. "You have to go drag him out."
 
In the second game, it was a different story. The YellowJackets forced the Belhaven coaches to go to the mound time and again, as they chased five different Blazers' arms out of the game before Jacob Doyle came on in the eighth with the Jackets comfortably in front. LeTourneau scored three in the bottom of the first to give Sharpe all the run support he needed. Noe Balderas' single to right scored Bryce Brueggemeyer for a 2-1 lead. Anthony Ybarra was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded two batters later to make it 3-1.
 
Balderas, who went 4-for-5 with three RBI, doubled to left in the third, scoring Noah Arellano, and Chaz Jackson singled to right, allowing two more runs to score to extend the lead to 6-1. Kameron Lindsey's single scored Jackson, and Cody Stanley's RBI single to left capped off the five-run inning.
 
"We struggled that first game," Sharpe said, "and then we bounced back, and showed what this team really can do."
 
Arellano and Kyle Maysonave had RBI base knocks in the sixth as the YellowJackets' lead swelled to nine. After Nick Lucido's run-scoring single in the seventh put Belhaven on the board, following five straight frames of 0s dicatate by Sharpe, the Jackets responded with two more runs in the bottom half of the inning. Arellano drove in a run on a sacrifice fly to center, and Balderas singled to left to bring home Brueggemeyer, who was 2-for-5.
 
Sharpe gave up five hits and four walks, and fanned four in his third outing of seven innings this season to record the win. Kolton Eberlan worked a spotless eighth and ninth, striking out three to lower his earned run average in his fourth consecutive relief appearance.
 
Lindsey had two hits for the fifth straight game. Arellano was 1-for-3 with a walk and two RBI. McKinley drove in his team-leading 18^th RBI. Eight of the nine spots in the lineup produced RBIs in the runaway win.
 
"We're making it a point that we belong," Sharpe said.
 
With numbers like that, it's hard to argue.