Box Score STEPHENVILLE, Texas – The Tarleton Texan baseball team pushed its win streak to nine in-a-row after completing a four-game sweep over Eastern New Mexico on Sunday and downing the Greyhounds 6-3 at Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex in Stephenville.
 
Sunday's affair began as a pitching duel between Tarleton's Troyal Yosko and Jaspreet Shergill as both hurlers tossed scoreless baseball over the first three innings. Garrett Kelly relieved Yosko in the top of the fourth inning, and he too had three full innings of shutout baseball.
 
Tarleton finally got the bats going in the bottom of the sixth inning with four runs on four hits in the frame. Shergill gave up a pair of singles to Noah Ringenberger and Avaro Moreno before Colten Boothe drove in the first run of the game with his sacrifice fly to center field. Ryan Small was then hit by a pitch and Rustin Thomas drove in a pair of runs with his single up the middle, giving Tarleton a 3-0 lead.
 
With just one out in the inning, Shergill was relieved by Brian Kennedy who later yielded a single to Jared Musgrove. Matt Olive, who pinch ran for Thomas a few batters earlier, came around to score on the hit and the run was charged to Shergill to close the books on the ENMU starter.
 
ENMU cut into the four-run lead with a home run from Brooke Brooks in the top of the seventh inning, but Tarleton got that run back in the bottom half of the inning on Moreno's sacrifice fly. Small drove in a run in the next at bat for the Texans to give Tarleton a 6-1 advantage.
 
The Greyhounds managed to put up another two runs in the top of the eighth inning off Texan reliever Landon Thompson, but the sophomore right-hander shutdown the Greyhounds in one-two-three fashion in the bottom of the ninth to give Tarelton the three-run victory.
 
Musgrove led the Texans with a pair of hits on the day and Musgroves two runs batted in were a game-high as well. Six different Texans came around to score in the game.
 
Kelly (2-2) picked up the win in relief for the Texans, giving up one run on four hits in his 4.0 innings of work. He struck out three ENMU batters in his time on the hill as well.
 
Shergill (1-2) took the loss for the Greyhounds giving up four runs on six hits in 5.1 innings of work.
 
The Texans moved to 15-6-1 overall with its ninth-consecutive win, which dates back to Feb. 28. Tarleton improved to 4-0 in Lone Star Conference play.
 
The Greyhounds have dropped six straight games now and fell to 11-10 overall and 0-4 in the conference.
 
Tarleton hit .438 as a team on the weekend, scoring 48 runs on 49 hits in the four-game series. Moreno led the offensive onslaught with a .692 batting average in the series. He had nine hits with three doubles and three home runs. He drove in a team-high 15 RBI as well.
 
The Texan pitching staff had a collective earned run average of 3.00 on the weekend, allowing just 12 runs (10 earned) and striking out ENMU batters 23 times.
 
The Texans will break from LSC play this Tuesday with a non-conference road game against Texas Wesleyan this Tuesday, Mar. 19 in Fort Worth. Tarleton defeated TWU 6-4 earlier this season in Stephenville.