HEMPSTEAD, Texas (Interstat) — Prairie View erupted for five runs in the fifth inning and five more in the sixth Saturday afternoon to rout Mississippi Valley State 14-4 in a Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball game at Tankersley Field.

The Panthers, who improved to 12-34 overall, pounded out 19 hits and capitalized on four Delta Devils errors. Mississippi Valley State fell to 12-36.

Mississippi Valley State jumped ahead in the top of the first inning when Jace Jones homered for an early lead. The Delta Devils managed only six hits the rest of the way.

Prairie View answered immediately in the bottom half. Ethan Walker tripled down the right-field line and scored on Tyvon Moore’s triple to right-center. Ryland Duson singled home Moore, and after a double by Zacarias Salinas, Hunter Ham’s sacrifice fly brought home Duson. The Panthers pulled within 4-3 after one inning.

The Delta Devils extended their lead to 4-3 in the top of the fourth. Kendall Brookins walked, advanced on a passed ball and scored on Israel Ramos’ groundout. Cody Leming singled, Tanner Aoki singled and Chris Soeder singled to drive in Leming.

Prairie View tied the game in the bottom of the fourth on Ham’s solo home run. The Panthers then seized control in the fifth. Moore singled, stole second and scored on Salinas’ single. Michael Burroughs followed with a sacrifice fly to score Duson, who had singled. Jordan Williams singled home Salinas for a 7-4 lead.

The game’s decisive moment came in the bottom of the sixth. Deshon Middleton reached on an error and scored on Walker’s single. After a groundout, Salinas walked, and Burroughs singled to drive in Walker. Ham singled to load the bases, and Williams cleared them with a double to right-center, stretching the lead to 12-4.

Burroughs finished 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs. Williams went 2-for-3 with four RBIs. Ham was 3-for-3 with a home run and two RBIs. Moore finished 3-for-5 with an RBI. Salinas went 3-for-4 with an RBI.

Alejandro Marquez earned the win, pitching six innings and allowing six hits and four earned runs while striking out six. Kamar Dove threw two scoreless innings, surrendering no hits and striking out one.

For Mississippi Valley State, Jones went 1-for-1 with a home run. The Delta Devils used four pitchers, with Camden Farmer recording just one out and allowing no runs in a brief relief appearance.

The victory gave Prairie View a sweep of the three-game series. The Panthers had won the previous two games by scores of 5-3 and 11-1. Mississippi Valley State entered the game having lost nine of its last 11 contests.

Interstat’s game simulator projected a final score of Mississippi Valley State 1, Prairie View 6. Interstat’s ELO system gave Prairie View a 69.00 percent probability to win.