DALLAS – Scott LeJeune and Taylor Ashby each drove in three runs, and the Texas Tech bullpen held Dallas Baptist scoreless over the final six innings to rally for a 9-6 victory over the Patriots Wednesday night at Patriot Field.

The win breaks a three-game losing streak for the Red Raiders (21-27) and gives them some momentum heading into a key Big 12 Conference road series at Kansas State beginning on Friday.

The nine-day layoff for final exams apparently did Tech good in several areas. The 21 hits Tech pounded out tied a season high and seven of the nine Red Raider starters finished with at least two hits. Michael Reed, Chris Richburg and LeJeune finished with three hits and Ashby led the team with four.

The Red Raiders had not played since being swept at Missouri at the end of April.

LeJeune plated Tech’s first two runs with a two-out double to right-center that gave Tech a 2-0 lead. After DBU (32-14) took a 6-2 lead in the second, the Red Raiders rallied for a run in the fourth on a Justin Berry single, then took the lead for good with a four-run fifth.

LeJeune drove in the first run of the inning with a single to left, and Ashby followed with a double down the left-field line to tie the game. An infield single by Berry put runners at the corners, and Ashby scored when Mason Macnoll singled to left to make it a 7-6 game.

Richburg singled to right to score Reed from second in the sixth, and back-to-back doubles by LeJeune and Ashby in the eighth accounted for Tech’s final run.

Cory Large (1-1), who came in relief for starter Lorenzo Douglas, got the victory. Large entered with the bases loaded and gave up a grand slam home run to Ryan Goins in the second that put DBU up 5-2, and Travis Meiners added a solo shot in the third before Large settled down to retire six of the last seven batters he faced.

Louis Head pitched the next 12/3 innings, striking out four of the five batters he faced. Robbie Kilcrease, Brian Cloud and Chad Bettis then combined to seal the win by scattering two hits and a walk over the final three frames. Bettis earned his team-leading seventh save of the season despite allowing a leadoff walk.

Amarillo native Victor Black, who held Tech to a run on three hits over six innings in an 11-2 win at Tech on March 11, struggled to repeat the feat. He lasted just 41/3 innings, giving up five runs on seven hits and two walks with two strikeouts.

Reliever Chris Haney (4-4) took the loss, surrendering a pair of runs on five hits in just a third of an inning.

TEXAS TECH 9, DALLAS BAPTIST 6

TEXAS TECH DALLAS BAPTIST

ab r h bi ab r h bi

Rueda 2b 5 1 1 0 Enos rf 4 1 0 0

Reed lf 5 2 3 0 Knight 2b 4 1 2 1

Kenworthy ss 5 1 2 0 Goins ss 4 1 2 4

Richburg 1b 5 3 3 1 Krizan dh 4 0 1 0

LeJeune dh 4 1 3 3 Bantz c 4 0 1 0

Ashby cf 5 1 4 3 Meiners 3b 3 1 1 1

Berry 3b 5 0 2 1 Anderson cf 4 1 0 0

Fleming rf 1 0 0 0 Head 1b 2 1 0 0

Leslie ph 1 0 0 0 Thompson pr 0 0 0 0

Macnoll rf 3 0 1 1 Kelly lf 4 0 0 0

Mayo c 4 0 2 0

Totals 43 9 21 9 Totals 33 6 7 6

Texas Tech 200 141 010 – 9

Dallas Baptist 051 000 000 – 6

E – Rueda (5). DP – Texas Tech 1. LOB – Texas Tech 13, Dallas Baptist 6. 2B – LeJeune 2(12), Ashby 2(15), Berry (7), Knight (8), Goins (11). HR – Goins (19), Meiners (6). SH – Rueda (7), Kenworthy (11). CS – Kenworthy (2), Richburg (2).

IP H R ER BB SO

Texas Tech

Douglas 12/3 1 4 4 5 0

Large (W, 1-1) 22/3 4 2 2 0 3

Head 12/3 0 0 0 0 4

Kilcrease 1 1 0 0 0 1

Cloud 1 1 0 0 0 0

Bettis (S, 7) 1 0 0 0 1 1

Dallas Baptist

Black 41/3 7 5 5 2 2

Haney (L, 4-4) 1/3 5 2 2 0 0

Smith 41/3 9 2 2 1 2

HBP – by Haney (Mayo). BK – Black (2). U – Maher, Smith, Wolfe. T – 3:24. A – 250. Records: Texas Tech 21-27; Dallas Baptist 32-13.