FORT SMITH, Ark. -- UT Tyler claimed its first road series win in the Lone Star Conference by closing out a three-game set at Arkansas-Fort Smith (UAFS) with a dominant 11-0 victory Sunday afternoon.

Freshman righthander Garrett Arredondo delivered five shutout innings for his second consecutive start to earn the victory, while Keith Long and Blaine Parker combined to close out the combined shutout with four scoreless frames. The Patriots were led offensively by Jordan Gochenour's 3-for-5, 3-RBI performance, and Cade Watson and Cody Windisch hit home runs as UT Tyler pulled away in the late innings.

It didn't take long for UT Tyler to rally from its first defeat of the 2020 season, erasing Saturday night's extra-innings defeat with Sunday's impressive, complete performance.

"We're happy to get a series win on the road, but we have to continue to improve," UT Tyler head coach Brent Porche said. "I love our guys and this coaching staff, and we have to get ready to get back to work this week."

With Sunday's victory, UT Tyler claimed its second consecutive Lone Star Conference series win and improves to 5-1 on the season. UAFS drops to 4-2.

How It Happened: Tanner Roach and Riley Jepson were both hit by pitch to start Sunday's contest, giving UT Tyler runners at first and second with no outs in the top of the first. Jordan Gochenour produced his first of three hits in the contest with a one-out RBI single to left, scoring Roach and giving the Patriots an early 1-0 lead. Four innings later, Roach and Jepson set up another scoring opportunity with consecutive one-out singles, and Bowie Farris extended the lead to 2-0 with his one-out RBI single to left.

Garrett Arredondo tossed five shutout innings, allowing just three hits and two walks with five strikeouts, and he left the game after five frames with a 2-0 lead. Keith Long struck out six in three scoreless innings of relief, and Blaine Parker posted a scoreless ninth to close out the Patriots' first shutout of the 2020 season.

UT Tyler blew the game wide open in the seventh inning, scoring six runs on four hits as the Patriots batted all the way around the lineup with nine batters coming to the plate in the inning. Gochenour's two-out double to right field scored the first two runs of the inning, extending the lead to 4-0, and Kyle McShaffry added an RBI single to make it 5-0. Cade Watson blasted a three-run home run to left field, capping the six-run outburst with his first home run of the season. The Patriots scored all six runs in the seventh with two outs in the inning, ending the seventh with an 8-0 lead.

Watson added a one-out RBI triple in the ninth, and Cody Windisch followed Watson with a two-run home run to right field to close out the scoring.

Tanner Roach (2-for-4) and Cade Watson (2-for-5, 4 RBI) joined Jordan Gochenour with multi-hit performances, as eight of the Patriots nine offensive starters registered a hit in the series finale.

Inside The Box Score: Kyle McShaffry batted .500 (7-for-14) with 3 extra-base hits during the 3-game series… As a team, the Patriots registered 13 extra-base hits and scored 27 runs during the series, posting a team series batting average of .320 (41-for-128)… The UT Tyler bullpen notched 27 strikeouts in 16 innings of work over the weekend… As a complete pitching staff, the Patriots produced a 49-12 K-BB ratio and held UAFS hitters to a .195 batting average… The 11-run output was a season scoring high for UT Tyler… The Patriots have scored in the first inning in four of their six games this year, winning all four games when it scores in the first inning… Jordan Gochenour and Tanner Roach have matching five-game hitting streaks, and Bowie Farris has hit safely in six straight… Gochenour has four multi-hit games, and Cody Windisch leads the team in multiple-RBI games (3).

What's Next: The rest of the Lone Star Conference schedule consists of weekly four-game series over the next 11 weeks, and UT Tyler is scheduled to return home next weekend for a four-game series against Eastern New Mexico.

Quotable (head coach Brent Porche): "When we stick to our approach and have a plan, we can be an extremely dynamic offense. Coach White got the guys together today and challenged them to be more locked in and not give away pitches to hit, and we were able to make an adjustment and really pull away. We talked as a group this morning about how we needed to bounce back and correct some of the mistakes from last night. We were able to get a lead and finally put somebody away."

"The pitching staff was electric this weekend. We were able to create some advantage counts and put people away. A big emphasis this weekend was cutting down on free passes, and Coach Vruggink and the pitching staff did a great job of being in the zone and making them earn their runs."