MIDLAND, TEXAS - #25 UT Tyler flipped Friday night's score on UT Permian Basin to collect a 15-5 win in just seven innings on Saturday night at Momentum Bank Ballpark.
 
10 different Patriots crossed home plate in order to total those season-high 15 runs, evening up the series against UT Permian Basin at one game apiece. UT Tyler plated those 15 runs on just nine hits, taking full advantage of free bases and provided some power throughout the lineup with four extra-base hits on the night.
 
Starter Jacob Blatney moved to 3-0 on the year after picking up the win, striking out nearly half of the batters that he faced in his six innings on the mound. Blatney scattered four hits across those six innings of work, striking out 10 along the way, and didn't allow a single free base in the effort.
 
The win is the eighth road win in nine games away from the friendly confines of Irwin Field for the club and puts the Patriots in position to secure their fifth Lone Star Conference series win of the season with a win in tomorrow's series finale.
 
The Patriots struck for a total of 11 runs in the third, fourth and fifth frames to break open a double-digit advantage on the Falcons. Jordan Gochenour put the first run on the board in the game with a two-out double to left field that scored Riley Jepson all the way from first after Jepson advanced on with his second walk of the game.
 
Jepson went on to walk three times throughout the contest, scoring three times, while Gochenour went 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.
 
UT Tyler followed up the run in the third with a seven-run fourth inning, requiring just three hits in the frame to break open the ball game with an 8-0 advantage. The Patriots drew five of their 13 walks in the contest in that frame alone, combining the discipline approach at the plate with RBI singles from Kyle McShaffry and Corbin Geisendorff in the inning to bat through the lineup and plate the seven runs.
 
That quality work at the plate continued into the fifth for the Patriots as Carson Cox leadoff the inning with a single to left and then scored on a Jepson single to right field to extend the advantage to 9-0. Kyler Bumstead scored on the second wild pitch of the frame to move the lead to double digits before McShaffry drove in the second of his three RBI on the night with a groundout to first that scored Jepson from third.
 
McShaffry scored Gochenour in the top of the seventh with a double to right to continue the onslaught of Patriot runs before a three-run homer from Ethan Bedgood with two outs on the board scored McShaffry and Edward Ortiz a few batters later to run the scoring total to a season-best 15 for the Patriots.
 
Josh Garza saved the run-rule for UT Tyler in the seventh after UT Permian Basin was able to score five after Blatney gave way to the Patriot bullpen for what would stand as the final inning of the contest.
 
McShaffry went 2-for-5 on the night as one of four Patriots to record multiple hits in the contest.
 
UT Tyler and UT Permian Basin will decide the series victor tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. in Midland.