Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 EDINBURG, Texas – The Northwestern State baseball team was one hit away from sweeping the doubleheader at the Al Ogletree Classic at Texas-Pan American, but a routine grounder gave the Demons a 1-0 loss to UTPA in the late game after a 5-3 win over Prairie View A&M in the early game.
 
UTPA (3-2) starting pitcher Sam Street threw a complete-game shutout in the second game and only gave up two hits with 11 strikeouts.  NSU (2-4) loaded the bases in the ninth inning on a single and two hit-by-pitches. Caleb Dugas worked the count full with two outs in the top of the ninth inning before ripping a ground ball to second base to end the game.
 
Street (2-0) finished the game with 130 pitches.
 
"I think what we're starting to see is that we have a tough team that will fight you," said pitching coach Chris Curry.  Lane Burroughs had to be away from the team with the death of his father Friday morning.
 
"Street is a good pitcher and will be a high draft pick.  I imagine he will be one of the top five arms we face all year," he said.  "The fact of the matter is that we battled today. We're facing injuries already."
 
The Demons used a two-run bottom of the fifth inning to get past Prairie View (2-4) after the Panthers took the lead at the top of the fifth.
 
Jake Clouatre, who reached base every time in every plate appearance in the first game, led off the bottom of the fifth with a full-count walk.  Brett Underwood followed him a sacrifice bunt to advance Clouatre to second base before Joel Atkinson drew a full-count walk.
 
Clouatre and Atkinson both took off on a double steal, and Clouatre was able to score on an error by the second baseman Josh Jefferson.  Chase Daughdrill grounded out to third base to score Atkinson. 
 
"It was set up to be a tough day.  We had an emotional game on Saturday (a 5-3 loss to No. 14 Louisiana-Lafayette), an 11-hour road trip, and two tough teams to play," said Curry. "There was no atmosphere, and to be honest we came out a little flat.
 
"We used our ability to run to pressure them in to speeding up their game and causing mistakes," he said.
 
The Demons stole six bases against Prairie View.
 
NSU scored the first run of the game in the bottom of the fourth inning.  Caleb Dugas started off the inning with a double to left field before a pitch hit Regan Kaufman. C.J. Webster followed with a single to third base and Nathan Lyons scored Dugas on a sacrifice fly.   
 
Prairie View was able to get out of the inning without any more harm done.
 
The Panthers answered in the top of the fifth inning on a RBI-single from Jefferson to left field and a sacrifice fly to right field one batter later.  Both runs of the inning were unearned because of an error in the inning.
 
NSU added two more in the bottom of the eighth inning on a bases loaded  wild pitch and Daughdrill, who has is second-straight muti-RBI game, scored Clouatre on a full-count walk.
 
Spann (1-1) got the start in game one and worked five innings. He allowed four hits with one walk and one strikeout.  Andrew Adams and Joey Parrack each pitched two innings.
 
"I think the story of the game was in the bullpen," said Curry.  "Adams came in with two on and nobody out and never gave up a run.  Parrack and sealed up the eighth and ninth innings. The bullpen was key."
 
Jonathan Mata (0-2) started on the mound for Prairie View and went five innings with three hits, three runs, four walks, and one strikeout.
 
Clouatre was 2-of-3 at the plate with on walk, Underwood, Atkinson, Dugas and Webster all had a hit.  Atkinson had three walk and Daughdrill and Kaufman reached on a free pass.
 
Hunter Duvic (0-2) started on the mound for NSU in the late game.  He pitched six innings and allowed only one run, in the first inning, on four hits with two walks and six strikeouts.  Cody Butler took over in the seventh inning and pitched 1.2 innings and was replaced by Dugas in for the final out of the eighth. 
 
Duvic struck out the first batter of the opening for Texas-Pan American.  He walked Michael Baca, stuck out Victor Garcia, and walked Alberto Morales to put two men on with two outs.  Alex Howe singled to center field to score the first and only run of the game.
 
Street had seven different perfect innings, and only allowed one hit in the first eight innings. Chase Daughdrill singled to center field in the fourth inning.
 
NSU will play the third and its final game of the tournament on Saturday at 7 o'clock against Texas-Pan American.  John Gault (1-0, 0.00 ERA) will start for NSU and Matt Harrell (1-0, 1.29 ERA) will go for UTPA.