THE RUNDOWN
DBU (11-5) completed the sweep of Oral Roberts (9-7) with a 3-0 shutout win at Horner Ballpark on Sunday. Redshirt sophomore right-hander Bryson Hammer worked a season-high 6.0 shutout innings and also fanned a sesaon-best nine hitters to help lift the Patriots to their fourth straight win. Grant Jay's pair of doubles were the only extra-base hits of the afternoon.
 
The Patriots wasted no time to get on the scoreboard. Jay, the leadoff hitter, singled to start the offense for DBU and went station-to-station on walk by Nathan Humphreys, a groundout by Nate Rombach, and an RBI fielder's choice off the bat of Miguel Santos.
 
The Patriots were held to the lone run in the first but used a similar strategy to get their second run in the third. Jay started the inning with a double and was once again driven in by Santos to give DBU a 2-0 lead.
 
Bryson Hammer was electric on the mound for the Patriots. A Golden Eagle reached scoring position only one time in his six innings of work. He finished the afternoon with a line of nine strikeouts, two walks, two hits allowed, and no runs.
 
The DBU bullpen finished without being marred by an ORU run, including five strikeouts and one walk combined from Zane Russell and Kyle Amendt.
 
Russell and Amendt received the extra support of a run in the seventh when Jay doubled off the center field wall to push Tom Poolle across home plate. That would be the last run of the game, as the Patriots took the game as they took the series, 3-0.
 
THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The Patriots improve to 10-1 at Horner Ballpark this season.
- DBU has swept all three home series this year.
- Bryson Hammer had a season-high 9 strikeouts in his longest outing of the year (6.0 innings pitched).
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
1.444 - Grant Jay hit a blistering .667 over the weekend, going 6-for-9 and slugging 1.444 with 4 doubles and a home run.
6 - Patriot pitching allowed only 6 earned runs in the series against ORU, good for a 2.00 ERA over the three-game series.
9 - Hammer's 9 punch-outs are the most by a DBU starting pitcher since Braxton Bragg threw 12 on Opening Day.

HEAD COACH DAN HEEFNER ON BRYSON HAMMER'S PERFORMANCE
"[Hammer] gave us a great start.…He had all three pitches working. I thought he had a great tempo. His presence out there was really good. On a week like this, where we had the double midweek, that was big for him to go six innings like he did.…just outstanding innings, one through six."
 
UP NEXT
DBU drives up to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to play No. 12 Oklahoma State on Tuesday. First pitch is at 6:00 pm.
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