WEATHERFORD – SWOSU Baseball got the game winning hit from Ty Eastwood in the ninth inning of Friday's series opener in an 8-7 victory over Southern Nazarene.

The walk-off win comes days after being on the other end of the equation at Cameron. It also snaps an eight-game skid.

SWOSU had a 7-2 lead evaporate before the dramatics in the ninth. The Dawgs used a six-run sixth inning to grab all the game's momentum, but SNU answered right back with four of their own (all unearned) in the top of the seventh.

It was a pitching duel leading up to that. SWOSU had four hits in the game's first five innings before the bats woke up. They trailed 2-0 after SNU started the day's scoring in the third, and again 3-1 in the fifth. SWOSU's lone run in that span came from Reece Burke who homered in the fourth.

Down 3-1, Connor Jeffers tied the game up with a two-run home run to left field in the sixth. A fielding error then allowed the go-ahead run to score before Jackson Syring delivered a bases clearing three RBI double to push the margin out to 7-2.

Errors were costly in the next half inning. SWOSU committed three blunders which got magnified by a home run and a double by Southern Nazarene. After seven, the score was knotted 7-7.

The bullpen did not allow a run in the eighth or ninth which kept the game tied. Tyler Fortin and Ayden Page both stranded two runners in their innings of relief.

Then in the home half of ninth, Jeffers walked with one out followed by a Sergio Natera single. With two on, Eastwood singled through the right side to win it. It was his third hit of the day.

Rece Parker was given the no decision. He threw 5.0 innings, struck out seven, walked four and allowed three runs. Ernesto Hidrogo pitched two innings before Fortin and Page finished things out.

SWOSU moves to an even 16-16 on the year and to 8-11 in conference play. They close out the series with SNU tomorrow with a doubleheader beginning at noon in Weatherford.