RICHARDSON, Texas – LeTourneau's baseball team won the opening game of a doubleheader at the University of Texas at Dallas, 12-3, Saturday before dropping the second game, 4-0.
The YellowJackets (14-17, 12-11 American Southwest Conference) will go for its sixth series victory 12 p.m. Sunday to wrap up the road trip.
Bryce Brueggemeyer cranked two home runs, and
Weston McKinley had another as the Jackets pounded the Comets (20-10, 16-7) for a season-high 18 hits in the opener. Brueggemeyer was 2-for-4 with four RBI, and McKinley went 3-for-5 with two RBI.
Brueggemeyer's two-run homer in the second gave the Jackets a 5-0 lead.
Jaggar Vaughn had an RBI single in the first, and
David Pugh drove in a pair with a single to right center in the second to spot the YellowJackets a three-run lead.
UTD scored one in the second and two more in the third to make it a two-run game. But Pugh's RBI fielder's choice, and Brueggemeyer and McKinley's back-to-back jacks in the fourth stretched the lead out to 9-3. Brueggemeyer blasted a two-run shot to center, and McKinley had a solo homer to left on the first pitch he saw.
Vaughn had a two-run single in the fifth, and McKinley's single to right in the seventh drove in a run for the nine-run lead the Comets could not recover from.
Pugh and Vaughn both went 3-for-5 with three RBI.
Chaz Jackson was 3-for-4, and
Kameron Lindsey recorded his seventh consecutive two-hit game.
LETU starter
Raul Martinez (4-2) went the distance, giving up three runs on six hits and a walk, while fanning four in the win. UTD's Blake Birdwell (3-3) took the loss, going 3.1 innings, allowing nine runs on 13 hits and a walk.
UT Dallas outhit LeTourneau, 10-4, to win the second game. The Comets scored once in the third, twice in the sixth and once more in the seventh.
Lindsey extended his hitting streak to a season-best nine games. Brueggemeyer had a hit, and McKinley was 2-for-3 with a walk.
UTD's Carter Cochrane (7-0) went the distance in the nine-inning second game, fanning six and walking two in the shutout.
Jared Schurig (3-4) took the loss after giving up eight hits and a walk in six innings.
Kolton Eberlan worked the final two innings, allowing two hits, a run and a walk.