Comets Sweep Past East Texas Baptist
To Finish Regular Season On a Roll

UTD Bats Remain Hot As Comets Win 12th Straight Entering Playoffs

SENIOR OUTFIELDER JARED SMITH FINISHED THE ETBU SERIES 8-FOR-10 WITH 7 RBI.

MARSHALL, TEXAS (04.19.09) – The UT Dallas baseball team continued to build momentum for the American Southwest Conference championship playoffs by running their win streak to 12 straight games with a three-game sweep of East Texas Baptist Sunday and Monday afternoon.

The Comets pounded out 38 hits and added seven more home runs to their record-setting total in putting together 9-4 and 12-3 wins in a Sunday doubleheader, then rallying to defeat the Tigers, 12-10, in the Monday finale.

UTD (25-15 overall), which has not lost a game since March 29, wrapped up the No. 3 ASC East Division seed with a 12-6 conference mark and will travel to Abilene to meet the No. 2 West seed Hardin-Simmons in a best-of-three series Friday.

The trio of third baseman Cody Ross, left fielder Jared Smith and catcher/designated hitter Adam Hudec led the Comet assault with multiple-hit weekends. Ross was 7-for-16 with a pair of doubles and two home runs. Smith finished the weekend collecting 8 hits in 10 at-bats with 7 RBI. Hudec raised his batting average above the .400 mark with a 6-for-11 effort.

Though the Comet starters all struggled, the UTD relief corps put together an impressive showing in all three games. In the final two innings of the first two games, ETBU managed just one hit. In the finale, the Comets got four solid innings of no-hit relief.

GAME 1: UTD 9, ETBU 4 (boxscore)

broke it open with a grand slam in the top of the 7th. UTD took leads of 2-0 and 4-2 early before ETBU crept to within 4-3 in the 4th and were still trailing just 5-4 after five.

Hudec, who scored a run earlier after tripling in his first at-bat, tripled again to lead off the 7th. Two batters later, the bases were loaded and Biguenet went deep to give the Comets some cushion. Drew Waggoner scattered seven hits in picking up the win, but UTD also got quality relief from Jonathan Reeder and Adam Spinn, who gave up just one hit in two innings of work.

GAME 2: UTD 12, ETBU 4 (boxscore)

. UTD took the lead in the 3rd on an RBI single from Kyle Guest, then added three more in the 4th on back-to-back RBI doubles from Neal Gordon and Cody Ross.

After ETBU got one run back in the 5th, UTD added a pair in the 6th on a two-run homer from Smith, another RBI hit from Smith in the 8th. Randy Lorber added a three-run homer in the 9th to finish out the scoring. Thompson gave up just three runs in a 6.1-inning start, but Brandon Dinwiddie finished things off with 2.2 innings of scoreless relief, giving up just one hit.

GAME 3: UTD 12, ETBU 10 (boxscore)

and Spinn combined to allow no-hit, scoreless relief the final four innings of a come-from-behind win. UTD trailed 10-7 in the 6th and were in a jam with the bases loaded and no one out when Buchanan coaxed a sacrifice fly, then got the Comets out of the inning without any further damage. Spinn got five ground-ball outs in the final two innings to pick up the win.

While their pitchers were holding down an ETBU attack that had posted 12 hits and 10 runs through the first six innings, UTD got the runs it needed to move back in front in the 8th. The Comets got just two hits in the inning, but both were home runs from Cody Ross and Johnnie Martinez, and both followed a runner reaching base (first on an error, then via the base on balls.) UTD added an insurance run in the 9th when Smith drove in Lorber.

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