LONGVIEW – It's almost as if Chaz Jackson's walkup song continued to echo out of Conrad-Vernon Field.
 
At least that's the way starter Jared Schurig described it after LeTourneau University's baseball team beat Belhaven, 4-3, Sunday to win the series. It was the YellowJackets' fifth series victory of the season.
 
"Really good," starter Jared Schurig said after improving to 3-3 on the hill. "It feels good for the team, especially since we have two tough teams coming up. This is a big weekend against a good team, so it feels good."
 
For sure, it was another good weekend for the YellowJackets, who moved over the .500 mark in American Southwest Conference play. Prior to the series, LETU (13-16, 11-10 ASC) had lost six of the past seven to Belhaven (17-13, 12-9).
 
In a season-long seven-inning outing, Schurig allowed five hits, a walk and no earned runs, and had four strikeouts in the victory, dropping his earned run average nearly a full point.
 
Weston McKinley's two-out, two-run double to left lifted the Jackets in front in the bottom of the first. Kameron Lindsey roped a single to left to score Kyle Maysonave in the second, spotting Schurig a three-run lead.
 
"It makes it way easier, especially when I can trust my teammates to make every play," Schurig said. "I just go up there and do my thing. It just makes it easier when we have a lead, too. It makes it more fun in the game."
 
Schurig retired five of the next six batters after his team gave him the 3-0 lead. After a bunt single by Evan Moore and single to left by Reed Bolton, the YellowJackets starter got Caleb Whittle to fly out to left to end the fourth. Belhaven scored once in the fifth when Nick Lucido reached on an error, allowing Hunter White to race home. Schurig got an inning-ending double play on the next hitter to maintain a two-run lead.
 
The Jackets picked up a run in the fifth when Jackson bunted his way on, advanced to second on Lindsey's sacrifice bunt, and took third on a balk. Cody Stanley drove him in on a fielder's choice as the Belhaven infielder tried to cut Jackson down at the plate, but the Jackets' speedy center field dove under the tag to make it 4-1.
 
Schurig retired the last six batters he faced in order before giving way to Kolton Eberlan in the eighth. In that inning, Trip Benson doubled in a run, and Nathan Herron singled to drive in another. That cut the lead to 4-3. But Eberlan got a pop out and a bunt back to him for outs on the next two hitters he faced to end the threat. The YellowJackets closer got Whittle to fly out to right, Caleb Green to ground out to shortstop, and, after a single by White, wrapped it up when Julyan Urena flied out to right.
 
Eberlan earned his third save of the season. Will Swift (2-4) went the distance in the loss.
 
"These last two weekends, we've played teams at the top of the conference," Schurig said. "Our last two weekends are the same thing. If we keep doing what we're doing, good things should happen."
 
Brueggemeyer collected two hits, including his team-leading 10^th double of the season, in four plate appearances. Lindsey recorded his sixth straight two-hit game, going 2-for-3. Noe Balderas and Maysonave each had a hit.
 
The YellowJackets will go on the road Friday and Saturday to play a three-game set at the University of Texas at Dallas, which moved into second place in the ASC over the weekend.
 
"We're going to have a tough matchup coming up," Schurig said, "but we've gotten hot at the right time, so I think we'll be alright."