TYLER, TEXAS – #3 UT Tyler homered five times between the two games against Texas A&M-Kingsville and leaned on complete game efforts from Tatum Goff and Shea O'Leary to extend their win streak to 25 straight on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Junior Michelle Arias hit the first of her two homers on the afternoon in game one to jump start the Patriots to a 4-1 victory, and then added one of four long balls in the 10-1 run-rule victory in game two. Junior Tatum Goff went 7.0 complete innings in game one, allowing just five hits while striking out seven to move to 31-0 on the year, while graduate student Shea O'Leary added a complete game effort in game two as well.
 
The Patriots moved to 48-4 on the year with their NCAA Division II-best 25^th straight win on Tuesday and are now just one win away from clinching at least a share of a third straight Lone Star Conference Regular Season Championship. UT Tyler is 36-2 in Lone Star Conference play, and can clinch the outright regular season title with a two wins in any of the four remaining games on the regular season schedule.
 
Arias started the day with a three-run homer in the bottom of the first to put UT Tyler ahead 3-0. Goff retired the first nine Javelinas she faced in order, and then worked around a leadoff single in the top of the fourth to keep the Patriot lead in-tact.
 
Texas A&M-Kingsville tried to take advantage of another leadoff single in the sixth, but were thrown out at home by centerfield JT Smith on a single through the leftside. Junior Courtney Plocheck leadoff the bottom of the sixth with a bunt single, and then scored a fourth Patriot run on a two-out RBI single from junior Audrey Escamilla.
 
The Javelinas hit a solo homer in the top of the seventh to bring game one to it's eventual 4-1 final.
 
The six Patriot hits came off the bat of six different Patriots, while Arias and Escamilla finished the ball game with RBI. Goff allowed just five hits and struckout seven for her 18^th complete game of the 2023 season.
 
Texas A&M-Kingsville jumped ahead early with a run in the top of the first of game two, but another three-run bottom of the first inning for the Patriots quickly put reversed the favor of the game. Plocheck scored leadoff batter JT Smith with a triple off the rightfield fence, and then came around to score on a second Arias homer, this time a two-run shot to nearly the exact same spot over the leftfield fence.
 
That 3-1 score held into the bottom of the fourth before senior Amanda Marek hit a two-run homer to left to make it 5-1. Plocheck then joined in on the fun with the third Patriot homer of the game on a solo shot to leadoff the bottom of the fifth to make it 6-1.

Arias and senior Avery Farr put runs seven and eight on the board in the sixth, before Escamilla ended the ball game with homer no. 4 of the game, a two-run shot to leftfield that enacted the 10-1 run-rule.
 
O'Leary was solid in the circle throughout the offensive explosion for the Patriots, tossing 6.0 complete innings while allowing just a single earned run. The Castaic, Calif. native struckout five and scattered six hits.
 
Plocheck and Arias both had three hits in the heart of the UT Tyler lineup, finishing the game 3-for-4. Plocheck totaled three runs scored and a pair of RBI, and Arias three RBI and two runs scored.
 
Escamilla joined Plocheck and Arias with multi-hit efforts and added a pair of RBI on her 2-for-3 day at the plate.
 
UT Tyler will look for a tenth 3-0 Lone Star Conference series sweep in a row in tomorrow's series finale against Texas A&M-Kingsville, scheduled for a 12 p.m. start.