SENATOBIA – Northwest pounded out 23 hits, behind 10 different Rangers, and scored 25 runs to pick up its third MACJC sweep of the season with a pair of 12-11 and 13-1 wins over Southwest Mississippi Friday night at Jim Miles Field.

Winners in five straight and seven of eight, No. 18 Northwest improved to 18-6 overall and 7-3 in conference play while Southwest fell to 10-13 and 2-8 in the MACJC.

Hammer Franks finished 5-for-7 with a double, two triples and four RBIs and was one of four Rangers with three or more hits in the twinbill sweep.

Northwest will host Holmes on Tuesday, April 3 for a 3 p.m. doubleheader, just one of its remaining three at home. Live video and stats will be available through nwccrangers.com.

Game 1 – Northwest 12, Southwest 11

Leading 11-2 in the sixth and with the potential winning run on third, Northwest had to withstand a nine-run rally from the Bears over the final three innings to hold on for the Game 1 win.

Northwest took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the first with RBI-singles from Clark Stovall and Brayland Skinner.

SMCC would get a run back in the third to tie the game at two apiece before the Rangers tacked on three more runs in the bottom half on a two-run triple from Franks who would later score on an error to make it a 5-2 lead.

The lead ballooned to 11-2 in the fifth behind a pair of two-run homers from Tanner Leggett and Tanner Booth.

But the Bears did not go down quietly, scoring four in the seventh off RBIs from Michael Buck and Tucker Watts and a sac fly from Paco Bello after Parker Stinnett exited the game in the inning.

Southwest cut it to 11-8 in the top of the eighth before what turned out to be a huge insurance run on Ben Van Cleve's sac fly in the bottom half.

The Bears put the first three runners on base safely in the ninth and pulled within 12-9 on DJ Lewis' groundout. Buck's two-out, two-run double down the line pulled SMCC within 12-11 before Franks entered and recorded his first collegiate save with an infield groundout.

Stinnett moved to 4-1 on the mound, scattering three hits, one earned run and five strikeouts in 5.1 innings of work. Northwest used a season-high six different pitchers in the win. Matthew Graves (3-2) lasted just 3.1 frames and allowed seven runs on nine hits.

Game 2 – Northwest 13, Southwest 1 (5)

In a run-rule victory to close out a sweep, Northwest scored five in the first and six in the third to help head coach Mark Carson earn his 400th career victory.

Carson is the second winningest coach in the program's history, trailing the legendary Jim Miles and his 556 career wins.

Dalton Fowler worked 4.1 strong innings, striking out nine, and Peyton Mills (2-for-3, 2B, HR, 4 RBIs), Franks and Tucker Richmond each had two hits.

Northwest wasted little time getting the bats going in the bottom of the first, as the Rangers used a two-run double from Franks and a three-run double to center field from Mills to take a 5-1 lead.

After starting off the second with a triple from Richmond, the Rangers added two more off a Kelton Hall groundout and an RBI-double from Van Cleve to extend the lead to 7-1.

Hayden Leatherwood would help bring in six Ranger runs in the third off a triple to right center and later scored to make the final 13-1.