A combination of explosive hitting in the first game and dominant pitching in the second game propelled TMU Baseball to a doubleheader sweep over (RV) Texas Wesleyan on Saturday by scores of 16-8 and 3-0.
With the pair of wins inside Lou Herwaldt Stadium, Master's improved to 7-2 overall on the season and gave Texas Wesleyan (4-2) its first two losses of the season.
In the first game,
Miles Henderson's bases-clearing double gave Master's a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth, before the visiting Rams tied it up with five runs of their own in the top of the seventh.
The Mustang bats then responded with eight runs in the bottom half of the inning, the most TMU has scored in an inning since March 26, 2021 when Master's had nine runners cross home plate in the top of the third against William Jessup.
An
Evan Banks RBI-double restored TMU's advantage, before RBI base-hits from
Joe Terlizzi,
Corny Miller and
Kobe Katayama broke the game open further.
After Texas Wesleyan scored twice in the eighth to get to within five, the Mustangs added three insurance runs in the bottom half, two of which came off another Henderson double. The team's 16 runs scored in the first game are the most Master's has put up on the scoreboard so far this season.
While it was the offense that carried TMU in the first game, it was the right arms of
Spencer Long and
Kameron Quitno that led the Mustangs in game two. Long struck out six in 5.1 shutout innings, before Quitno earned the save with 1.2 scoreless innings himself.
Terlizzi's RBI-double in the second provided the only run Master's needed, before the right fielder doubled TMU's lead in the fourth with an RBI-single.
Henderson and Terlizzi led Master's with five hits each on the day, recording five and four RBIs respectively.
