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ADA, Okla. – SWOSU Baseball saw their four-game winning streak snapped, but responded with an emphatic 11-2 victory in the rubber match of their conference series at East Central on Saturday.
 
SWOSU (6-5, 2-1) wins the series two games to one and they're back in action at home on Tuesday afternoon against Central Oklahoma.
 
East Central 13, SWOSU 7
Box Score
 
ECU scored seven runs in the second inning and four in the fourth to end SWOSU's four-game winning streak and win Saturday's opener. Bulldog starter Gunnar Cook was run from the game in the second inning after a leadoff home run, two walks and three singles. By the time the smoke was clear on the inning, the Tigers had built a 7-0 inning and left SWOSU in quite a hole.
 
Jacob Spring helped SWOSU start trying to climb out of that hole with a three-run home run in the third inning, but ECU responded with four runs on four hits in the fourth inning to make it 11-4. The Bulldogs got two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth, but it was not enough to keep things close in the opener.
 
Spring was one of three Bulldogs with a multi-hit game in the opener, joining Korbin Polson and Zach Barton, and the veteran trio, along with Haden Houska accounted for all the RBIs in the game. Cook (1-2) took the loss after allowing six earned runs on four hits in 1.1 innings of action.
 
SWOSU 11, East Central 2
Box Score
 
There would be no sulking on this day as the Bulldogs instead quickly regrouped and returned the favor to East Central with a thrashing in the rubber match of the series. SWOSU scored two runs in the first and three in the third before salting the game away with six runs in the final three innings of the seven-inning contest.
 
Polston and Barton had the RBI hits in the first inning as SWOSU went up 2-0 and the top of the lineup came through again in the third as Spring hit a two-run triple and Barton had an RBI single. East Central got their two runs in the third inning but the Bulldog removed all doubt with two-run home runs from Patrick O'Toole and Polston in the sixth.
 
Spring and Polston each went 3-for-4 with a combined five RBI in the game while O'Toole was 1-for-3 with the two-run homer and Barton was 1-for-3 with three RBI. Devin Ring (2-1) tossed a complete game, allowing just four hits and two earned runs while striking out five Tigers.