TYLER, Texas – UT Tyler put the exclamation point on an impressive weekend of power pitching performances, completing a four-game Lone Star Conference series sweep over Cameron University with a 4-1 victory Sunday afternoon.

The No. 21-ranked Patriots outscored Cameron by a combined 21-3 margin, notching 56 strikeouts in 32 innings of pitching in the series. Sunday's starter Jacob Blatney racked up 12 strikeouts in 5.1 innings, surrendering just one unearned run on four hits with one walk, while relievers Keith Long (3 strikeouts) and Matthew McMillan (2 strikeouts) ran the single-game strikeout total to 17.

Jordan Gochenour drove in two runs, and Riley Jepson and Cade Watson each went 2-for-4 to pace the Patriots' 4-run, 10-hit attack.

With the series sweep clincher, UT Tyler improved to 16-2 overall and in the Lone Star Conference standings. The Patriots are in second place in the Lone Star Conference behind Angelo State, which is now 17-1 after winning three of four against West Texas A&M this weekend. Cameron dropped to 4-14 overall (4-14 LSC).

How It Happened: UT Tyler took the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth inning, breaking a 1-1 tie with a pair of runs on just one hit, as Corbin Geisendorff reached on a leadoff single and later scored on a balk while a wild pitch scored Tanner Roach, who reached on a walk. Two innings later, Geisendorff scored another insurance run on Jordan Gochenour's bases-loaded two-out walk to extend the lead to 4-1.

It was the second two-out RBI of the contest for Gochenour, who drove in Roach for the game's first run in the bottom of the first inning.

Starting pitcher Jacob Blatney cruised through five shutout frames, with the exception of an unearned run in the third inning which tied the game at 1-1. Despite three hits and an error in the third, Blatney escaped any serious damage with some help from a crucial outfield assist from Gochenour in left field with a throw that cut down a runner at the plate.

Blatney ended the third inning with a strikeout, the first of seven consecutive batters he retired. At one point, he struck out six batters in a row, although the last of that run reached first safely with a third-strike wild pitch. The next batter doubled, and Blatney issued a four-pitch walk to load the bases and put the potential tying run on base with one out in the top of the sixth. Max Page took over from there, and he snuffed the rally with a double play grounder up the middle to preserve the 4-1 lead. Keith Long threw two scoreless innings to bridge the gap to the ninth inning, where Matthew McMillan notched his fifth save with a pair of strikeouts in a scoreless ninth.

Inside The Box Score: Cameron is now 0-11 in road games this season while UT Tyler is now 11-0 in home games… Riley Jepson and Jordan Gochenour have reached base safely by hit, walk, or hit by pitch in all 18 games of the season… Jepson, Zach Sanchez, and Tanner Roach all batted .300 or better in the four-game Cameron series… UT Tyler hit 20 home runs over a 10-game stretch before the Cameron series, but the Aggies held the Patriots homerless for the entire four-game series.

What's Next: UT Tyler goes back on the road next week for a four-game Lone Star Conference series at Lubbock Christian (March 6-8). The Patriots return home from March 13-15, taking on West Texas A&M.