Scorpions Take First Doubleheader Sweep of Season
Posted March 13, 2008
UTB/TSC won its third straight game over Paul Quinn College in a doubleheader sweep, 4-1 and 9-8, Thursday, March 13, at Scorpion Field.

After a 16-2 rout over PQC on Wednesday, the victories over PQC have become tougher as the series wears on. The Scorpions and Tigers meet in the finale of their four-game series at 6 p.m. Friday, March 14, at Scorpion Field.

UTB/TSC has won six of its last eight games and is now 8-20 for the season while PQC dropped to 5-21. On March 4, the Scorpions had a record of two wins and 18 losses.

The PQC series is part of a 17-game homestand, which started March 2. After the PQC series, UTB/TSC has four games against William Woods University (Mo.) and Fisher College (Mass.) from March 16-18.

Scorpions 4, Tigers 1 (first game)

Junior lefthander Tony Lerma had his best outing of the season, going all seven innings, and allowing only five hits. The lone run he allowed in the sixth inning was unearned.

The Scorpions scored twice in the third inning, and added single runs in the fifth and sixth.

Triples by Ryan McDonald and Schaune Collins highlighted the two-run third inning for the Scorpions. In the fifth inning, Jorge Camorlinga doubled and scored when Ignacio Celedon was hit by a pitch. In the sixth, Camorlinga's sacrifice fly brought home Walter Blume, who was hit by a pitch.

Jacob Yousif and Brian Dombeck had two hits each for the Scorpions, who had eight hits total.

Scorpions 9, Tigers 9 (second game)

What started out as a comfortable lead for the Scorpions after five innings almost turned into disaster in what turned out be an exciting finish.

Behind the pitching of freshman Zach Moya, the Scorpions led 7-3 after five innings.

In the first, Dombeck doubled home Carmorlinga, who had singled. Andres Monterrubio smacked a two-run homer in the second inning, and Camorlinga later had an RBI single to make it 4-0. The Scorpions tallied once more in the fifth and added two more in the sixth on a two-run homer by Gilbert Puente, putting the Scorpions ahead, 7-3.

PQC cut the lead to 7-6 in the top of the sixth after a three-run homer by Jamerson Lewis, his second of the night. The Tigers then took an 8-7 lead in the top of the seventh with two runs, leaving the Scorpions bewildered.

But the Scorpions rallied back, starting with Puente's double. Walter Blume reached on an error, and Ryan MacDonald followed with a run-scoring suicide squeeze bunt single. Camorlinga then followed with a bouncer back to PQC pitcher Sandor Lister. With Blume running on the hit, Lister hrew to home too late to stop a sliding Blume from scoring, giving the Scorpions the 9-8 victory.

The Scorpions had 12 hits, two each byCamorlinga, Yousif, Monterrubio and Puente.