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ABILENE- A four-run rally in the top of the fourth inning coupled with seven runs in the ninth propelled the Sul Ross Lobos to an 11-4 conference victory over McMurry University in the series finale Monday.
Monday's win gives Sully the series sweep and their second sweep of the season.
The War Hawks scored a run in their first three innings for a 3-0 lead.
A single by
Monty Maley in the Sul Ross fourth scored
Jonathon Bigley before a two-base error by the McMurry catcher scored Maley and
Holden Simpson.
Ryan Acebedo then scored, unearned, on a single by
Austin Luna giving the Lobos a 4-3 lead heading to a scoreless bottom of the fourth.
McMurry tied the game in the sixth on a wild pitch.
Following a dormant seventh and eighth,
Jace Jenkins scored the first of seven runs for the visitors in the ninth off a bases-loaded walk by
Jacob Ochoa.
Luna then scored on a single by
Ryan Almager before another bases-loaded walk by Bigley brought
Wesley Moss across for a 7-4 Sul Ross lead.
Simpson would then reach base on a dropped fly ball which scored Ochoa and Almager.
Jenkins followed up with a double to left field that brought Simpson and Bigley across for the 11-4 victory.
Sully edged the War Hawks in the hitting department by a 9-8 margin.
Junior reliever
Aaron Marquez picked up his first victory of the season after working the final 3.2 innings.
Marquez gave up just two hits and a walk while striking out seven of 12 McMurry batters.
Sul Ross improves to 7-6 on the season and 3-0 in ASC play while the War Hawks fall to 3-6 and 0-3.
The Lobos return to Kokernot Field this Friday and Saturday for a three-game, non-conference series with former ASC foe Austin College.