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LONGVIEW, Texas – The McMurry baseball team continued its early season turnaround Sunday with a doubleheader sweep of LeTourneau on the road. McMurry took the first game of the twinbill 13-5 and then won 5-4 in extra innings in the series finale.

In the second game, Jeff Jackson hit a leadoff double in the top of the tenth inning and Hunter Lane drove him home with a two-out pinch-hit single for the game winner. Dylan De Leon got two fly outs and a ground out in the bottom of the tenth to complete the three-game sweep of the Yellow Jackets.

Zack Hewitt provided a solid start for McMurry throwing the first six innings and allowing three earned runs out of four surrendered. The bullpen shut down LeTourneau the rest of the way. Chris Maldanado allowed just one hit and struck out two in 2.2 innings of work while DeLeon recorded the last four outs and picked up the win in relief.

Offensively, Bradd Baker scored two runs and had three hits while Michael Falcone drove in two runs, Michael Dibiasi had one RBI, Luke Boswell drove home a run with a sacrifice and Lane had the game winning RBI.

McMurry led 4-2 until the bottom of the sixth when the Yellow Jackets' Joey Ramos hit a 2-run homer to knot the score. However, that would be all LeTourneau could muster.

In the first game of the doubleheader, McMurry used a nine-run fifth inning and three runs of scoreless relief from Chris Semchenko to help the team cruise to a 13-5 victory.

In the fifth, Jake Mullin hit a 3-run home run and doubled while Falcone had a 2-run homer. Derek Saltzgaber and Baker also drove in runs during the offensive explosion that saw eight hits in the inning. Baker added a two-run double in the eighth.

Dakota Smith started and picked up the win on the mound for McMurry to move to 3-1 on the season; he gave up five runs but only two were earned in four innings of work. Because of the seven-inning game, Smith was credited with the win. Semchenko picked up a save in three innings of work striking out five and allowing just three hits while keeping the Yellow Jackets scoreless.

Baker and Mulling finished with three RBI while Lane drove in two runs with a pinch-hit single in the fourth.

The Yellow Jackets' Jeremy Burke picked up the loss allowing seven runs while reliever Cody Smith gave up six (one earned) in the final 2.2 innings of the game.

After a 1-6 start, which tied the slowest start in school history, McMurry's 3-game sweep after Friday's win over LeTourneau moves the team to 4-6. The Yellow Jackets dropped to 4-5.