Santos' 2 HRs help Pioneers split with 'Stangs

Dawin Santos hit two of Wayland Baptist's four home runs as the Pioneers rolled to a 14-2 victory over University of the Southwest in the second game of a Saturday afternoon doubleheader at Wilder Field. The Mustangs won the opener, 8-4.
 
Wayland (11-7) and Southwest (5-5) will meet for another doubleheader on Sunday afternoon in Hobbs, N.M. First pitch is at 1 p.m. CST.
 
After Southwest scored the first six runs of Friday's opener, the Pioneers were determined not to let that happen in game two, and they didn't. Wayland erupted for six first-inning runs and got six more in the fourth as they built a 14-0 lead.
 
Carlos Collazo hit a two-run home run, his fifth of 2021, to start the scoring, then Jake Green got an RBI-double and Brock Webber a two-RBI single. An RBI-groundout by third baseman Hayden Ingram capped the six-run, five-hit first.
 
Santos delivered the first of his two homers in the second, then in the third Ingram singled and, on three straight pitches, advanced on a wild pitch, passed ball and another wild pitch to make it 8-0.
 
Santos went deep again in the fourth, this time it was a two-run blast down the left field line that doubled his season home run total. Jacob Adams followed suit with his own two-run homer, his second of the season, before Gregory Ozuna smacked an RBI-double and scored on a wild pitch, making it 14-0.
 
The Pioneers got 14 hits, to match their 14 runs, off five USW pitchers, while Wayland's Jose Suero and John Sauceda limited the Mustangs to just four hits. Suero (2-3) struck out six in 5 2/3 innings before Sauceda came in and fanned two more.
 
In the first game, WBU ace Tanner Solomon uncharacteristically struggled, giving up six runs on nine hits while striking out seven and walking two as the Mustangs assumed a 6-0 lead going into the bottom of the fifth.
 
Wayland's offense rallied, starting in the fifth when Ozuna popped a two-run homer (his sixth of the season and second in as many games), Webber drew a bases-loaded walk and Marco Rivera scored on a balk. But the Pioneers left the bases loaded that inning to keep from drawing closer than 6-4, and then USW's Galindo provided the Mustangs with a pair of insurance runs with a seventh-inning homer.
 
The Pioneers went down in order in their last at-bat.