Coupled with a 5-2 victory over the Scorpions in the first game of a doubleheader Sunday, Wayland Baptist made it a clean sweep of the four-game series which marked the season openers for both teams, making the 700-mile trip to Brownsville much sweeter for the Pioneers.

UTB/TSC, now 0-4, now makes its own long journey next weekend when the Scorpions play at Lubbock Christian University for a four-game series January 25-26.

"We had 26 innings of good baseball -- all but the first and last innings today," Scorpion head coach Joel Barta said. "When you need your starters to go four or five innings and then get in trouble in the first inning, it puts the stretch on everything."

In the second game Sunday, Scorpion freshman starter Zach Moya went only one and one-third innings, allowing three runs. The Scorpions also committed 12 errors in the four-game series.

"It's early and you're playing legit quality teams right out of the gate, you don't need to be great and you got to be clean," Barta said. "We have to take care of those little things, especially when playing a quality opponent."

Wayland Baptist 5, UTB/TSC 2 (first game)

Schaune Collins homered in the seventh inning, and the Scorpions had the tying run at the plate before WBU thwarted the Scorpion rally. Following Collins' homer, Ryan MacDonald doubled and Ignacio Celedon walked, but Tyler O'Neal struck out to end the game.

Scott Price had two hits for the Scorpions, while Collins, Walter Blume, Brian Dombeck and Chris Walker had one each.

Jesus Mendoza went five and one-third innings for the Scorpions, allowing four earned runs while striking out three. Mendoza, Jesse Galvan and George Sakai combined to limit the Pioneers to four hits.

Wayland Baptist 14, UTB/TSC 6 (second game)

UTB/TSC came back from a 6-2 deficit with a four-run fifth inning to tie the game at 6-6. WBU scored once in the sixth to take a 7-6 lead before the seven-run explosion in the top of the seventh.

The Pioneers pounded out 13 hits off six Scorpion pitchers. while the Scorpions had their biggest offensive output of the series with 10 hits.

Ignacio Celedon had two hits and drove in three runs to lead the Scorpions. Robby Mang and Gilbert Fuentes also had two hits.

Sakai, who gave up the go-ahead run in the sixth inning, took the loss for the Scorpions.