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ABILENE, Texas – The McMurry baseball team dropped a doubleheader to crosstown foe Hardin-Simmons University by scores of 10-8 and 6-3 – at Hunter Field.  The twinbill loss by the War Hawks (9-14, 4-5 ASC) also gave the Cowboys (15-7, 9-3 ASC) a sweep of the three-game series.
 
In the first game of the day, McM starter Garrett Johnston (2-2) went 4.0 innings, permitting HSU 10 hits - of the team's 12 total - and six runs (four earned). Johnston struck out two and did not walk a batter in his stint.  Reliever Trent Walcott and Will Dunlap each allowed two earned runs.
 
The Cowboys jumped out to a 6-0 lead through four innings. However, in the fifth, McM charged back with a five-run fifth. The highlight of the outburst was Ty Kirk's second home run of the season, a two-run blast to right.
 
But McMurry saw its efforts evaporate in the bottom half of the frame by allowing HSU to score four times. Trailing 10-5, with just two innings left in the seven-inning game, the War Hawks once again rallied back.
 
In the sixth, an HSU throwing error resulted in a pair of unearned runs for the War Hawks, 10-7. He in the top of the seventh, Danny Perkins drew a leadoff walk and eventually scored on Matt Chalk's RBI single with two out. But the next batter was retired to leave the War Hawks just short, 10-8.
 
Leadoff hitter Kevin Garza was 3-for-4 and scored once. Kirk went 2-for-3.  Outfielder Robert White drove in two runs and Patrick Adams scored twice.
 
In the second game of the day, HSU had a three-run second and tallied a single run in the third to go up, 4-0. Two unearned runs in the top of the fourth got the War Hawks close once again, only to have HSU answer with a single run in the bottom of the fourth, 5-2.
 
McM firstbaseman Tyler Jenkins led off the sixth with a triple and scored on Kirk's one-out grounder to second.  Down 5-3, the War Hawks stranded runners in scoring position in both the seventh and eighth innings and both times with less than two out.
 
HSU's run in the bottom of the eighth made it the 6-3 final.
 
John Eric Cortez (1-5), McMurry's starter, absorbed the loss. Cortez was chased after 2.1 innings, allowing five hits and four earned runs. He struck out three and walked four.
 
Jenkins and Perkins – batting in the Nos. 4 and 5 slots – each went 2-for-4 and scored once.  Chalk finished game two going 2-for-3 with two RBI.