After finding late-inning heroics in four straight games, DBU took control early in Sunday's 30-7 win at Air Force to complete the weekend sweep. After falling behind 1-0 after one inning, the Patriots (18-5) scored 13 times in the second inning to put the game out of reach for good. Austin Bell tied Patriot records with six hits and nine RBIs.

Bell put the Patriots on the board in the second with a three-run double. Jackson Glenn and Jimmy Glowenke each added two-run doubles before Evan Sandmann and Blayne Jones hit back-to-back home runs. Bell drove in a run with a single in his second at-bat of the inning and scored on Herbert Iser's first homer of the day.

In the third inning, Bell drove in two more with a double and scored on Iser's three-run blast. DBU used six doubles to score another five runs in the fourth.

Air Force (9-9) fought back with four runs in the fourth and two more in the sixth, but the Patriots' highest scoring output in three years was too much. Bell hit a two-run home run in the seventh to tie the program record with nine RBIs, and Sandmann drove in the final two runs with an eighth-inning double he tried to stretch into a triple that would have given him the cycle.

THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
 - DBU's 13-run second inning was its highest-scoring inning since scoring 15 in the sixth on April 21, 2007 against UT Pan-American.
 - Every Patriot reached base in the second inning.
 - In his career series against Air Force, Bell is now 12-for-18 with 14 RBIs, three doubles, a triple, a home run, 10 runs scored, and two walks.

COACH DAN HEEFNER ON AN UNEVEN DAY AT THE PLATE
"The thing I was most proud of was consistently good at-bats all through the game. I'm really happy for Austin Bell. He's a guy who has maintained a great attitude, even when he hasn't been in the lineup. He keeps working. We had a couple guys like that. Andres Sosa's another guy who was just ready to step in and give us some energy. Herbert Iser was able to step in after being down for a while. So up and and down the order, a lot of guys did a nice job."

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
52 - Jimmy Glowenke extended his reached-base streak to 52 games with a second-inning double. He is 17 games shy of Jason Krizan's Patriot record of 69.
28 - The Patriots' 28 hits were their most since March 5, 2016, against New Mexico.
13 - Thirteen straight Patriots reached safely during the second inning. 
4 - Four Patriots - Sosa, Sandmann, Iser, and Bell - drove in at least four runs Sunday.
9 - All nine hitters in DBU's starting lineup reached safely at least three times.

UP NEXT
The Patriots return home to face UT Arlington on Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 pm.