LIVINGSTON, Ala. – The 10^th-ranked University of West Alabama baseball team swept a mid-week doubleheader from the University of Arkansas at Monticello on Tuesday afternoon at Tartt Field. UWA (31-10) took the opening game 11-6 before completing the twinbill sweep with a 12-9 win.

Nick Wheeler and Rob Dahlberg posted multiple-RBI efforts in the two victories. Wheeler, a Hokes Bluff, Ala.-native, finished the day with three hits, four RBI and a run scored. Dahlberg, a Gilbertown, Ala.-product, tallied three hits on the afternoon with five RBI and three runs scored.

UWA struck in its first at-bat in game one of the double dip, plating two runs. UAM (7-32-1) posted a run in the top of the second, cutting the lead in half. The Tigers answered with a three spot in the bottom of the second. Dahlberg plated the first two runs of the frame with a base hit that scored Dallas Rogers and Jeremy Dorrance. The final run of the frame came on a Wheeler sacrifice fly to right field that plated Jeremy Finney. After the Boll Weevils pulled within three runs, 8-5, heading into the home half of the fourth inning, the Red and White added its third consecutive, three-run inning. Finney concluded the inning with a double to left field that scored Dorrance and Bryan Mason. UAM added one run in the top of the fifth, before falling in the contest.

John Ashley (2-0) tossed 2 2/3 innings in relief to grab the win. Ashley surrendered one run on two hits with four strikeouts and one walk.

In the second game of the day, UWA trailed 3-1 after the first two innings of play. Five runs in the bottom of the third inning, gave the Tigers their first lead of the game. Following a Dahlberg RBI, double to right center, Wheeler connected on his 10^th homerun of the season to push the Tigers in front 4-3.

UAM regained the lead, 7-6, in the top of the fourth with a grand slam off the bat of Blaine Ivey, but UWA retaliated with three runs in the bottom of the inning. Mason capped the scoring with a single up the middle that scored Brian Simone and Douglas Frazier. The Weevils answered with two runs in the top of the fifth, knotting the outing at 9-9. A Dahlberg sac fly to center broke the tie in the fifth. A Rogers’ single scored Kyle Standridge for the first of two insurance runs in the sixth, as Mason scored on a passed ball to close out the frame.

J. B. Black (2-0) tossed 2/3 of an inning in relief to pick up the win, with a pair of walks and one strikeout. Brian Burgess claimed his eighth save of the season, throwing 1 2/3 innings with three punch-outs and a walk.

West Alabama returns to Gulf South Conference play on Saturday, Apr. 18, as UWA travels to North Alabama for a key East Division series. First pitch of the Saturday doubleheader is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. The games will be aired on WZNJ 106.5-FM and at athletics.uwa.edu.