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MOBILE, Ala. – Jaguar right-hander JoJo Booker tossed seven scoreless innings to lead the University of South Alabama baseball team to a 4-2 win over Middle Tennessee Sunday at Stanky Field.

South Alabama (8-2) extended its win streak to seven games with the victory, and secured its second consecutive weekend series sweep. Booker (1-0) allowed four hits and struck out three without issuing a walk in seven scoreless innings to earn his first win of the season. Right-hander Jackson Boyd tossed two scoreless relief innings and struck out three with one walk, and did not allow a hit to record his second save of the season.

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South Alabama will return to action Tue., March 8, when it faces Southern Miss at 6 p.m. in Hattiesburg, Miss.

GAME FACTS
- Will Turner led off the bottom of the first with an infield single, and advanced to third on a single up the middle by Santi Montiel, who moved to second on the play following a throw into third. Blue Raider right-hander Peyton Wigginton recorded two consecutive outs via a strikeout of Hunter Stokes and popup to second by Charles Middleton, and escaped the jam with a inning-ending groundout to shortstop by Erick Orbeta.
- Orbeta and Cameron Tissue reached on consecutive one-out singles in the bottom of the fourth. Joseph Sullivan then reached on a two-base fielding error on a grounder to shortstop by Fausto Lopez, which allowed Orbeta to score from second with the game's first run. Hunter Donaldson then executed a two-run suicide squeeze back to the pitcher that scored Tissue and Sullivan for a 3-0 Jaguar lead.
- Orbeta singled to third base to lead off the bottom of the sixth, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Tissue, moved to third on a groundout to first by Sullivan and scored on a fielding error by JT Mabry on a grounder to second off the bat of Donaldson for a 4-0 Jag advantage. 
- Middle Tennessee cut the Jaguar lead in half at 4-2 in the top of the eighth on a two-run home run to left-center field by Brycen Thomas.

NOTES
- Montiel extended his on-base streak to 10 games with a single in the bottom of the first.
- Stokes extended his on-base streak to nine games with a single in the bottom of the seventh. 
- Tissue went 2-for-4 with one run scored, and Orbeta finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored to lead the Jags at the plate. Montiel added two hits, including a double, and Donaldson drove in two runs.
- The win marked the Jaguars' seventh straight, and the sixth consecutive win at Stanky Field.
- Booker logged a quality start, marking his second in as many starts. 

Head Coach Mark Calvi
- On JoJo Booker:
"JoJo was outstanding today. He was super efficient; he had 74 pitches going into the eighth (inning). He was outstanding, and that is what a guy who has been around the block does. He has been really good two weeks in a row, and that kind of efficiency is what I expect out of him every weekend. The game starts with that guy on the mound, and he got us off to a really good start."

- On the double-squeeze:
"We have some different things in our offense to do when the time is right and we feel like we need it. We have some guys who have been swinging the bat well so early on in the game you don't want to start giving away too many outs. Cam Tissue and Hunter Donaldson, to me, were the stories of today. They came off the bench yesterday and made starts today, and I thought they were fantastic. With really good pitching, those two kids won the game for us by the way they stayed ready and practiced hard because they are winners."

RHP JoJo Booker
- On his performance:
"I have gained a lot of confidence throughout the past two weeks, and I'm just out there letting my defense do their thing and just competing and giving it all I have – that's all I can do. I just had to get up there and let it eat, and everything kind of fell into place after that."

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