DALLAS – A four-run first inning propelled #22 Dallas Baptist (1-2) to a 13-5 win over Southeast Missouri (2-1) Sunday in the season-opening series finale.
 
SEMO won the series with consecutive wins against DBU Friday and Saturday.
 
The Patriots scored multiple runs in five innings en route to its first win of the 2022 campaign.
 
Back-to-back home runs jumpstarted DBU in its first at-bat of the game. Cole Moore smacked a three-run shot before cleanup hitter Andrew Benefield followed that up with a solo home run giving the Patriots a quick 4-0 advantage.
 
A Lincoln Andrews solo home run to right field got the Redhawks on the board in the top of the second.
 
The Patriots ran their lead to 8-1 after scoring twice more in each of the third and fifth frames.
 
SEMO later cut DBU's margin in half with a three-run top of the sixth during its biggest scoring threat of the day.
 
Peyton Leeper led off with a walk and scored when Tyler Wilber doubled for his first hit of the season. After Andrew Keck flied out, Lincoln Andrews doubled and Wilber scored. A third double of the inning, this time a two-out hit by Joel Vaske, knocked in Andrews cutting the Patriots lead to 8-4.
 
DBU, however, answered with two more runs in the sixth and seventh innings and one more in the eighth to cap its 13-5 win.
 
Miguel Santos' single plated two runs in the bottom of the sixth and a run-scoring single by Jaxon Holder and sacrifice fly by Blayne Jones pushed across DBU's runs in the seventh. A solo home run by Nate Rombach ended all scoring in the eighth.
 
DBU registered 14 hits with eight coming from the first four hitters in its lineup. Nathan Humphreys, Jace Grady, Jones and Moore each had two hits and combined for nine of the Patriots runs.
 
Andrews went 2-for-3 with, a home run, two runs and two RBI to lead the Redhawks who posted five hits.
 
Jacob Meador (1-0) worked five innings and allowed only one run on one hit to go along with eight strikeouts en route to his first victory of the season.
 
Austin Williams (0-1), who picked up a save Saturday, fell in his first start of the season. Williams gave up three hits and four runs, struck out two and walked two in two innings.
 
Williams was one of seven pitchers who took the mound for SEMO. Tommy Windt, Fischer Rausch, Matt Perego, Hayden Malenfant, Anthony Klein and Ethan Osborne all made their 2022 debuts out of the Redhawks bullpen.
 
The Redhawks visit Southeastern Conference member Kentucky for their first midweek game Tuesday.