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ABILENE, Texas – Zack Hewitt picked up his first win of the season in a complete-game victory to help McMurry University to a 7-3 victory over Schreiner at Walt Driggers Field Friday night. Hewitt scattered 11 hits, but didn't walk a hitter and struck out seven on 134 pitches.

Matt Thompson went 3 for 4 with two RBI while Dylan De Leon had two hits and two RBI. It was the fifth-straight game for McMurry that the team posted at least eight hits offensively and Friday night, the team had 12. Since a 1-6 start, McMurry has gone 8-8 in its last 16 games and has raised its team batting average from .250 to .275.

Derek Saltzgaber hit in his fifth-consecutive game and had his fourth-straight game with an RBI while Jake Mullin went 1 for 4 to extend his hitting streak to seven. McMurry scored two runs apiece in the second, third and fourth innings and added its final run in the fifth.

Hewitt had reached 100 pitches after the seventh inning, but head coach John Byington sent the sophomore right hander out for the eighth. He responded with an eight-pitch eighth inning striking out the final two Mountaineer batters in the top of the eighth and was rewarded with a chance to finish the game. In the ninth, he retired Schreiner in order to move to 1-2 on the season and lowered his season's ERA to 4.42 as just two of the three runs he surrendered were earned.

Schreiner scored one run in the second, third and sixth innings with Brad Thomas leading the way with a 4 for 4 performance and two runs driven in. The highlight of the game for Schreiner came in the first inning when Jake Mullin line a pitch directly back to the starting pitcher Barrett Houser, who made the catch and proceeded to turn a 1-4-3 triple play with two McMurry runners being caught off guard because of the velocity of the ball of Mullin's bat.

The Mountaineers fell to 3-21 overall and 1-6 in American Southwest Conference West Division play while McMurry improved to 10-13 overall and moved to 3-4 in league play. The two teams will finish the three-game set Saturday beginning with the seven-inning game of the doubleheader at 1 p.m.