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Box Score 2 WEATHERFORD, Okla. — Tim Coleman picked up his first win of the season for Southern Nazarene as SNU picked up a 6-3 win over Southwestern Oklahoma State after falling 4-1 in the first game of a doubleheader.
Coleman gave up just one earned run, three total, on six hits in six innings of work.
David Kaplan recorded his first save of the year after he retired the side in the bottom of the seventh.
Kyle Fultz and
Damian Santamaria each went 2-for-3 in the win. Fultz drove in a run and scored two while Santamaria scored one. The Storm had nine hits in all.
Southwestern took the first lead of the second game with one in the bottom of the first, but the Storm unloaded in the fourth with five.
Damian Santamaria tied it at 1-1 when he scored on a Southwestern Oklahoma State error and
Chance San Miguel gave SNU the lead when he singled.
Scott Stanley laid down a squeeze bunt to score
Luis Hernandez to make it 3-1 before
Riley Morrow ripped a single to center to score the final two runs of the inning.
The Bulldogs made it 5-3 in the bottom of the fifth, but SNU put it away in the sixth when Fultz hit a solo shot to make it 6-3.
San Miguel drove home the only run for the Storm in the opening game when he singled to left to score
Jacob Inbody in the top of the sixth. That cut the SWOSU lead to 2-1, but Southwestern added two more in the eighth to put it away.
Matt Berry (1-4) took the loss after giving up two runs on 10 hits in 7.2 innings of work. All five of SNU's hits came from different players.
The Storm move to 5-9 overall and 2-6 in the Great American Conference.
SNU will conclude its series with SWOSU Sunday at 1 p.m.