WEATHERFORD, Okla. – Two more high-scoring performances from the SWOSU Baseball team allowed the Bulldogs to finish off a three-game sweep over East Central on Saturday at the SWOSU Athletic Complex.
 
The Dawgs scored at least 10 runs in each game of the series, totaling 35 runs over three games, and improved to 12-8 on the year and 11-7 in Great American Conference play. SWOSU is back at home on Tuesday for a non-conference matchup with USAO before heading to Durant next weekend for a three-game set at Southeastern.
 
 
Game 1: SWOSU 10, ECU 7
The Bulldogs scored six runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to erase a 5-0 deficit, then added two runs apiece in the sixth and eighth innings to secure the series with a win in Saturday's opener. ECU put up four runs in the first inning and added another in the third before the Dawgs got going in the fourth.
 
Drew White went 3-for-5 with two RBI while Miguel Soto, Brooks Red and Ryan Dos Santos had two hits apiece in the game. Each of SWOSU's nine players in the lineup scored one run apiece, with eighth-inning pinch runner Brayden Whitchurch scoring the 10th and final run.
 
Matt Hopkins started and tossed the first four innings before giving way to Ryan Hildner (3-0), who closed things out by holding ECU to one run on four hits over the final five innings of play. Hopkins and Hildner each struck out six Tiger batters while walking one.
 
Game 2: SWOSU 13, ECU 10
The Dawgs were again forced to play from behind after ECU scored the first two runs in the top of the second inning, but Keyshaun Smith hit his first of two home runs of the game in the bottom half of the inning, jump-starting a six-run inning that put SWOSU up 6-2. The lead ran to 7-2 in the third, but a three-run homer by ECU pulled things square in the fourth.
 
White hit an RBI single in the fourth and scored on a wild pitch and SWOSU never looked back, adding four more runs – including Smith's solo home run – as the lead ran to 13-8 before ECU scored twice in the top of the seventh.
 
Seven different players had a hit in the game for SWOSU, with White and Baxley finishing with three hits while Soto, Ryan Dos Santos and Smith had two hits apiece.
 
Vance Ferraro (2-1) got the win after striking out seven and allowing six earned runs on six hits in the first four frames. Noah Chapin and Rafael Perez-Guzman combined to hold ECU to two hits over the final three innings and closed out the game.