LONGVIEW, Texas - The Howard Payne baseball team won 5-4 over LeTourneau despite being outhit 10-7 and committing three errors Thursday evening in league play.
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Howard Payne used four-different pitchers in the game and had seven hits in the win. Brandon Garrett and Dustin DeJohn each had two hits to lead HPU.
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LETU took an early in the bottom of the first scoring twice. HPU came back to tie it in the second inning, scoring twice on a Garrett single.
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Howard Payne took its first lead of the game in the fifth inning when they scored twice for a 4-2 lead. LeTourneau cut the deficit to 4-3 with a RBI single in its half of the inning. Then, in the seventh, LeTourneau tied it with a the bases loaded walk for a run.,
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With the game tied at four, in the top of the 8th, Howard Payne scored as they capitalized on an error by LeTourneau for a 5-4 lead. Then, LeTourneau mounted a threat in its half of the eighth. A LETU single and walk prompted a HPU pitching change. After a wild pitch moved the runners to second and third, the new pitcher – Kyle Ramon – got a strikeout and a fly out to end the threat.

Dustin Kelver moved to 1-1 on the year recording the win in an inning and two-thirds of relief after Shae Edmonds went five innings in the start. Kyle Ramon picked up his fourth save of the season throwing the last inning and two-thirds of the game.

Howard Payne is now 11-14 overall and 6-12 ASC action. LeTourneau stands at 9-8 overall and 7-5 league play.,The two teams will wrap up the series with a doubleheader on Friday at 1 p.m.