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Box Score 2 ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - The Ouachita Tigers won their second-straight home series to start the 2015 season, winning both games of a double header, 10-8 and 4-1, over Arkansas Tech, completing a three-game sweep over their GAC foe. The Tigers are now 5-1 at home this season.
Ouachita jumped out to an 8-0 lead after two innings.
Justin Weigle hit his first homerun of the season in the bottom of the first to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead. The Tigers scored seven more runs in the bottom of the second.
Drew Feuerbacher and
Jace Melby each drove in two runs in the inning.
Will Wallace and
Reuben Miller accounted for the other two RBI for the Tigers.
The Wonderboys would respond with six runs, trailing the Tigers 8-6 heading into the bottom of the seventh,
Tyler Faught homered in the seventh to make it a three-run game and Weigle scored his third run of the game in the bottom of the eighth to make it 10-6. Despite adding two runs in the top of the ninth, Tech dropped game two 10-8.
Tripp Cecil got the win in game one. He went 5.2 innings allowing five runs, three earned, and striking out one.
John Franklin Matros got the start for Ouachita in the second game of the double header. Matros earned his second win in as many starts, throwing a complete game, one-run win, Matros held Tech to only two hits and stuck out four.
Tech's only run of the game came with two outs in the top of the first on a solo homerun by Patrick Castleberry. Matros allowed only one more hit after and the Tigers offense took care of the rest.
Matt Sinclair hit a two-run double to center in the fourth, scoring Reuben Miler and
Jace Melby. Miller drove in two more in the bottom of the fifth on a single up the middle.
Parker Norris and Feuerbacher came in to score to make it a 4-1 game.
In the three-game series, Ouachita outscored Tech 24-9.