RICHARDSON, TX (02.20.09) – The UT Dallas baseball team and Texas Lutheran University have staged some memorable battles through the last few years - usually in the setting of an American Southwest Conference Championship Tournament or the NCAA Regionals. The old foes got together again this weekend for a three-game series that did not count for anything special, but featured the intensity and drama one would expect from the rivalry.

UTD (6-3) swept the Bulldogs in dramatic fashion. The Comets won Friday's opener 13-6, then rallied from big deficits twice on Saturday to take 14-13 and 10-9 victories behind an offense that pounded out 41 hits against a pitching staff that brought a 6-2 record and 3.09 team ERA into the series.

The Comets got big offensive series from the old and the new. Transfer catcher Adam Hudec and DH Randy Lorber combined to go 9-for-16 in the series with 10 RBIs and three home runs. Returning outfielders Jared Smith and Jake Eisman were a combined 11-for-21 with nine RBI.

GAME 1: UTD 13, TLU 6 (Boxscore)

The UTD Comets (4-3) won the opener of the three-game set Friday afternoon, powering three home runs on the way to a 13-6 win.

Chris Biguenet, Lorber and Hudec all went deep for the Comets, who pounded out 14 hits and got another nice start from senior Drew Waggoner.

Waggoner (1-1) went six innings to pick up his first victory of the year, surrendering just two unearned runs in the first five innings as UTD built up a 12-1 lead. After sitting on the bench while the Comets sent 11 batters to the plate in the bottom of the 5th, Waggoner was touched for four hits and a couple of runs in the sixth before giving way to Brad Buchanan and Dane Dougherty on the mound.

UTD took the lead in its first at-bat. Cody Ross drove in Lorber with a triple down the rightfield line, then later scored on a throw from the Bulldog catcher to first base when a third strike pitch on Jared Smith got away from the catcher. UTD made it 6-2 in the 4th with three straight singles and Biguenet's home run, then broke the game open in the 5th with six more runs on a five-hit assault. TLU battled back with five runs in the middle innings, but Dougherty pitched a perfect ninth inning to secure the win.

GAME 2: UTD 14, TLU 13 (Boxscore)

The Comets staged perhaps one of the most dramatic rallies in team history in the first game Saturday. Down 13-3 in the bottom of the 5th with two strikeouts against TLU ace Brad Orosey, UTD sent a remarkable 14 hitters to the plate and scored 11 times before the Bulldogs could get out of the inning.

The Comets pounded out eight hits against Orosey and a pair of relievers, who didn't help matters by issuing five walks. Lorber, Hudec, Eisman and Ross all had two-RBI hits in the inning for UTD. Lorber and Hudec combined for six RBI in the game.

David Shaw, who only pitched one-third of an inning, was the beneficiary of the outburst and picked up the win, but the two-inning, no-hit relief work of Brandon Dinwiddie and Adam Spinn saved the day.

GAME 3: UTD 10, TLU 9 (Boxscore)

The series finale wasn't quite as dramatic, but involved a Comet rally just the same. UTD came up with the game-tying and winning runs in the bottom of the last inning to again frustrate TLU, which went home 0-3 despite scoring 28 runs in the series.

Smith's single through the right side with two outs in the 7th brought home Neal Gordon, who was 3-for-4 in the game and had tied the score with an RBI single earlier in the inning. After Ross had struck out against TLU reliever Jeremy Macklin and Smith got behind in the count, the UTD leftfielder delievered the clutch shot into right field.

UTD had earlier rallied from a 4-0 deficit to take a 7-4 lead in the 4th only to see TLU score five runs in the 5th and 6th innings to go back in front 9-7 before the Comets' final at-bat. Spinn picked up the win in relief.