WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Baseball was upended twice on Friday afternoon at the Athletic Complex by the visitors from Arkansas-Monticello as the Boll Weevils opened the Great American Conference with a doubleheader sweep.
 
SWOSU (7-8, 4-4 GAC) will conclude the series with UAM on Saturday with one single, nine-inning game beginning at noon.
 
 
Game 1: UAM 8, SWOSU 4
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Monticello managed five runs in the first two innings and led from the outset. SWOSU got two back in the third with a two-run single from Tanner Long that scored Alex Pimentel and Kannon McCune then inched to within one after Pimentel and Sawyer Toole both scored via wild pitches in the bottom of the seventh, making it a 5-4 ball game.
 
UAM would plate two insurance runs in the eighth and one in the ninth while SWOSU stranded two in the bottom of the eighth and before going down in order in the ninth to close it out. Pimentel and Long had two hits apiece, accounting for four of the Bulldogs six hits on the day while Toole drew three walks to reach base.
 
Haden Branch (0-2) got the start and lasted 2.0 innings before being pulled in relief of Brant Millerborg, who pitched 6.0 innings and allowed seven hits but just two runs – one earned – while striking out eight batters. Jesse Lee pitched the ninth inning, giving up two hits and one run with two strikeouts.
 
Game 2: UAM 6, SWOSU 1
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SWOSU was held to three hits in the second game of the doubleheader and didn't get on the board until the bottom of the sixth inning when Pimentel hit an RBI single up the middle that scored Alex Bedard from third base. By that point, however, UAM had opened up a 5-1 lead with two runs in the second and fourth inning and one in the sixth. The Weevils would add an unearned run in the top of the seventh for the final margin.
 
Pimentel was 2-for-2 at the plate with one RBI while drawing a walk in his other plate appearance. Bedard had SWOSU's only other hit, a leadoff double in the sixth before coming around to score the Dawgs' run. Bulldog batters struck out nine times in the seven-inning contest while drawing three walks.
 
Tyler Tuck (2-2) started and pitched four innings, allowing nine hits and four runs with four strikeouts. Dakota Jones pitched the fifth and sixth innings before Isaiah Martinez closed the game out in the seventh.