Box Score HOUSTON -- Houston Baptist knocked around the Southland Conference's reigning Pitcher of the Week on Sunday as the Huskies topped ACU, 6-3, to win the three-game series at Husky Field.
The loss drops the Wildcats to 15-25 on the season and 5-10 in the Southland, while the Huskies improve to 20-20 and 9-12. ACU will be back in action this week with its final four home games of the season. The Wildcats will host Texas-Permian Basin in a non-conference game Tuesday at 6 p.m., and will then host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi this weekend in a three-game Southland Conference series at Crutcher Scott Field.
Following the three games against the Islanders, ACU will be on the road at Oral Roberts (May 9-11), Incarnate Word (May 15-17), Arizona State (May 20) and Arizona (May 23-25).
ACU sophomore righthander
Garrett deMeyere -- who last Sunday threw a four-hit complete-game shutout against Stephen F. Austin -- was touched for three runs on eight hits in just 4 1/3 innings of work. deMeyere, who took the loss to fall to 4-5 on the season, walked one and failed to strike out a batter.
Houston Baptist scored once in the third inning, twice more in the fourth and three more times in the sixth to build up a 6-0 lead on the Wildcats.
ACU, meanwhile, really couldn't get much offense going against HBU starting pitcher Curtis Jones. the junior righthander scattered eight Wildcat hits over 7 1/3 innings of work, while striking out a career-high eight batters and walking just one.
Jones stranded one runner in the first, fourth and sixth innings as he shut down the Wildcat offense. ACU, however, finally got on the board in the eighth when
Aaron Draper led off with a double and went to third on a single by
Gunnar Buhner. After
Connor Messman poppped out to third,
Seth Spivey unloaded his fourth home run of the season -- a three-run shot to right field -- to cut the HBU lead to 6-3.
That was all for Jones, who was replaced by Kobie Hadjik who finished off the eighth. Then sophomore Dylan Zarosky pitched a perfect ninth to earn saves in back-to-back games.
