Lance Fairchild held McMurry scoreless over the first eight innings and helped UTPB Baseball to a 6-3 win Saturday afternoon in the third and final game of a Heartland Conference series. McMurry took a fourth non-conference contest 9-8 later in the day.

Fairchild held the War Hawks to four hits and just a pair of walks in pitching until the final out of the game to earn his second win of the season. 

The Falcons broke a scoreless game open with three runs in the bottom of the third, scoring their first run when Andrew Grifol came home from third on a bunt back to the pitcher and avoided the tag at the plate. Michael Resnick and Ryan Arrick drove in two more runs later in the inning for a 3-0 lead.

David Lee doubled to lead off the bottom of the fourth and scored without a play at the plate on a wild pitch later in the inning to increase the team's lead to 4-0.

The Falcons tacked on two more runs in their turn in the eighth, scoring one wihen Arrick came home on a wild pitch and adding the second on a sac fly by Colin Kowal to score Ryne Head.

McMurry came back with three runs off of Fairchild in the top of the ninth, two of them earned, but Jesse Arnold closed out the game with a strikeout against his only batter faced to earn his first save of the season and close out the three-run victory.

Both teams scored nearly the same amount of runs in game two, but they couldn't have come more differently. McMurry scored at least once in each of the first six innings of the seven inning game, and UTPB scored four times in each the fourth and sixth innings.

Trailing 6-0 in the bottom of the fourth, Resnick and Daniel Andrade each drove in a run with a base hit, Travis Sims hit a sac fly to score one, and Ty Morgan scored on an error to cut the McMurry lead to 6-4.

The Falcons came back with four more runs in the bottom of the sixth. Sims started out the scoring in the frame with a base hit through the left side of the infield to score Blake Goodwyn. Later in the inning, Andrew Grifol was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to score Brian Brademan. Neil Madsen followed to pull the team within a run with a base hit into right to score Sims and Andrade.

Andrade reached base on an infield single to short in the bottom of the seventh and represented the tying run with two outs, but the game ended as he was caught attempting to steal second.

UTPB returns to Roden Field next weekend, hosting Rogers State for the team's final three home games of the season.