LUBBOCK, Tex. --- The Wayland Baptist Pioneers won their second road game in three days over an opponent ranked in the NAIA top ten with an 18-5 run-rule victory over #5 Lubbock Christian on a warm and windy evening at Hays Field. It was the largest margin of victory for WBU over the Chaps in the 19-year history of the series. Just last Saturday, the Pioneers defeated eighth-ranked Oklahoma City University, 9-5, in Oklahoma City.

The Pioneers pounded out 19 hits, including six doubles, a triple and three home runs, in the victory over LCU. Every Pioneer batter had at least one hit in the contest, led by junior Kevin Hennessey who was 4-for-4, but the story of the night was the pitching of junior Calvin Lewis. The southpaw from Phoenix, Ariz., limited one of the NAIA's highest scoring teams to just five runs. He struck out six and walked three while giving up ten hits, four of which came after the Pioneers had taken an 18-3 lead in the top of the seventh.

"Truthfully, I'm not sure what I'm doing differently," said Lewis, who came into the contest with a 2-5 record after some early season struggles, but went six strong innings against the Chaps. "I didn't have much confidence early. Lately things have been going better. Tonight I was hitting my spots and all my pitches were working."

Wayland lead-off hitter Eddie Allen started the game with a bang for the Pioneers with a solo home run to right field. Two batters later, junior Kevin Hennessey belted out his 22nd long ball of the year to give WBU a 3-0 lead.

The Pioneers got four more in the second. Limon, the designated hitter, led the inning off with a double down the right field line. Catcher Oscar Rivera followed with a bloop single to right and Allen got his second RBI of the game with an infield hit. After Michael Prell laid down a bunt single, Pedro Gomez brought in two runs with a single through the left side, and Hennessey went up the middle to plate the seventh run of the game.

The third inning was the only inning of the contest in which the visitors from Plainview were kept off the scoreboard, but after Hennessey walked with two outs in the fourth, Brian Embery and Jose Santiago recorded back-to-back doubles to make it 9-1 Pioneers.

Rivera got on base for the third straight time with a one-out walk in the fifth. Allen doubled home courtesy runner Calvin Bass to make it 10-2, and a Gomez two-base hit down the leftfield line plated both Allen and Prell, who had walked, to make it 12-2 after four-and-half innings of play.

LCU got its third solo home run of the evening in the home half of the fifth, but the Pioneers made it a ten-run margin once again with a triple off the bat of Limon, followed by Josh Lucas' RBI double in the right centerfield gap.

Lewis retired the Chaps in order in the sixth in what was probably his most impressive inning, and the WBU hitters put a big exclamation mark on the game by exploding for five more runs in the seventh.

Gomez drew a one-out walk, advanced to second on Hennessey's fourth hit of the game, a single through the right side of the infield, and went to third after Embery worked a walk to load the bases. Santiago picked up his second RBI of the game with a base hit to left, and then after a wild pitch scored Hennessey, Lucas crushed a no-doubt-about-it home run ball to left field to score the final three Wayland runs.

After LCU put up two runs in the bottom of the seventh on yet another solo home run, a routine fly ball that fell in for a triple, and two seeing-eye singles, Lewis' night came to an end, but not before the WBU crowd of more than 75 gave him a standing ovation.

Limon came in to get the next three batters on a flyout and two strikeouts, and the Pioneers snapped the 13-game win streak of the defending NAIA champion Chaparrals.

Wayland (29-18, 17-11) and LCU (38-11, 22-5) will move to Wilder Field for the second game of the series on Thursday night. Eight Pioneer seniors will be honored before the contest, which is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.