COLLEGE BASEBALL: UTPB swept

St. Mary’s pounded out 14 hits, including eight by the first three batters in the Rattlers’ lineup, to beat UTPB 5-3 Sunday and sweep the three-game Heartland Conference series at Roden Field.

Tyler Migl went 3-for-4 with a double, a run and an RBI for St. Mary’s (9-2 overall, 9-0 conference) while teammate Brandon Bates also doubled and drove in a pair of runs.

Mike Briseno collected two hits and was the only UTPB player with a multi-hit game. The Falcons (1-8, 1-5) finished with five hits, none of which went for extra bases.

Travis Wilcox (1-1) suffered the loss, allowing four runs (three earned) in five innings of work.

Down 4-0 after five innings, UTPB plated three runs in the bottom of the sixth with two hits. The Falcons stranded a runner at second that inning and never had a runner in scoring position again.

>> St. Mary’s 5, UTPB 3

St. Mary’s...... 010  030 001   —     5    14     2

UTPB.............. 000  003 000   —     3      5     2

Skye Severns, Kyle Bumpas (6), Jonathan Perez (9) and M.P. Cokinos. Travis Wilcox, Daniel Bernal (6), Jeff Fisher-Gasper (7) and Scott Hastings. W — Severns (1-0). L — Wilcox (1-1). Sv. — Perez (7). 2B — St. Mary’s: Billy Richard, Tyler Migl, Brandon Bates.

Records — St. Mary’s 9-2 overall, 9-0 Heartland Conference; UTPB 1-8, 1-5.