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ABILENE, Texas – The McMurry War Hawks put together two consecutive wins for the first time this season with a 5-0 and a 13-3 win over Mary Hardin-Baylor in American Southwest Conference West Division play Saturday at Walt Driggers Field.

McMurry's Zack Hewitt and Jordan Mattke turned in two strong pitching performances and the War Hawk offense combined for 25 hits in the two games.

Mary Hardin-Baylor fell to 9-11 overall and 1-4 in league play while McMurry improved to 5-14 overall and 2-3 against ASC West competition.

The War Hawks will go for the sweep Sunday at 1 p.m.

Below is a recap of each game:

Game One: McMurry 5 Mary Hardin-Baylor 0

Zack Hewitt tossed his first career shutout and Andrew Bell hit his first career home run to help McMurry get in the win column in American Southwest Conference West Division play. The War Hawks defeated the Crusaders 5-0 in a game that took two hours and 38 minutes to complete but spanned 19 and-a-half hours due to rain and lightning suspension.

With one out in the top of the fourth inning Friday night at Walt Driggers Field, lightning in the area caused the game to be delayed, followed by a brief rain storm. However, the lightning didn't cease and the game was scheduled to be resumed Saturday.

Hewitt didn't lose form coming back Saturday to complete a five-hit shutout, his third complete game of his 3-year career. He finished the game with just two walks and four strikeouts to move to 3-1 on the season. The goose egg was also the first nine-inning complete game shutout thrown by a McMurry pitcher since Clint Johnston shutout Schreiner March 28, 2008.

Bell's home run came Friday night, a two-run shot over the leftfield wall and Bell finished the game with two hits and two RBI. Jacob Bermejo had three hits and an RBI while Zach Rossman had a pair of hits and drove in a run as well for the War Hawks.

UMHB's Cameron Graham picked up the loss and surrendered all five McMurry runs in six innings, didn't walk a batter and struck out six while falling to 1-2 on the season. Josh Fredereick had a pair of hits in the loss for the Crusaders.

Game Two: McMurry 13 Mary Hardin-Baylor 3

Freshman Jordan Mattke struck out seven hitters and allowed only one earned run over eight innings at McMurry guaranteed at least a series victory over Mary Hardin-Baylor in a 13-3 win. Offensively, Dylan De Leon and Kory Moench each had three hits and two RBI's in the victory.

McMurry led 3-0 before the Crusaders scored two unearned runs in the top of the second to cut the lead to one. However, the War Hawks scored a run in the third, five runs in the fourth and two in the sixth to jump out to a 13-2 lead.

Mattke surrendered a solo home run to Ricky Brenek in the seventh, but that would be all that UMHB would muster offensively. Mattke picked up his first win of the season to move to 1-1. he scattered 10 hits and did not walk or a hit a batter in the victory.

Every player in the McMurry lineup had a hit except Jake Mullin, but Mullin managed a sacrifice fly to drive in a run. In addition eight of the nine hitters drove in a run except for leadoff hitter Jacob Bermejo. Bermejo contributed with two hits and two runs, however.

Chance Ryan picked up the loss for the Crusaders allowing 11 runs in 3.2 innings pitched to fall to 4-2 on the season. Brenek, Josh Frederick, Reinaldo Araujo, and Seth Mogavero had two hits apiece in the losing effort.