CLINTON, Miss. - The University of Texas at Tyler baseball team, currently ranked No. 23 in the country, won its fifth overall and fourth consecutive American Southwest Conference East Division Championship with an 11-8 win over Mississippi College in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader.

The 16th-ranked Choctaws won Saturday's first game, 11-2, and took Friday's opener, 7-3, forcing the Patriots into their regular season ASC finale to earn the title.

In the second game, the Patriots took a quick 3-0 lead in the second inning, with two runs coming courtesy of a Justin Juneau homer that plated Brett Hightower. Aaron McCain singled through the left side later in the inning to score Keenan Duke for the third run.

The Patriots and added two more in the fifth on a Juneau double and a Tyler Clakley sacrifice for a 5-0 advantage. The Choctaws answered with a pair or runs in the sixth and seventh to pull within 5-4.

The two teams traded runs down the stretch and entered the ninth inning knotted up at 8-8. The big hit of the game came from the Patriots' Clakley who hit a 3-run home run in the ninth that proved to be the difference.

Logan Chitwood earned the win for the Patriots despite surrendering four runs in the final three innings. Brock Campbell took the loss for MC allowing six runs in the final two innings.

In Saturday's first game, a ten-run second inning for Mississippi College proved more than enough for the win. The Patriots' only two runs came in the top of the second on a T.J. Martin double that scored Clakley and Juneau.

-Courtesy University of Texas at Tyler Sports Information Department