RUSTON -- Dallas Baptist junior designated hitter Ethan Mann hit three home runs, and a pair of Patriot pitchers limited Louisiana Tech to one run on five hits as DBU defeated the Bulldogs, 9-1, on a sunny Sunday afternoon before 2,043 at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.

The Patriots, 19-9 overall and 6-3 in Conference USA, took the league series, two games to one; Tech (14-14, 4-5) won Friday's opener, 5-2, and lost Saturday, 14-7.

Mann hit a two-out, three-run homer in the top of the first off Bulldog starter Greg Martinez (0-1) to stake Dallas Baptist to a 3-0 lead. Mann made it 4-0 when he led off the fourth with his second home run of the afternoon, and added a two-run homer in the ninth.

Martinez gave up the first two homers to Mann, who finished the game with six RBIs, but otherwise, the senior righty gave up just two hits, struck out three and walked one in four innings.

"I'm proud of Greg Martinez; I thought it was his best outing by far," Tech coach Lane Burroughs said. "I thought Landon (Tomkins, four hits and one run in four innings) and Ethan (Bates, one run in one inning and two strikeouts) were good. We just couldn't keep (Mann) in the ballpark."

The Bulldogs scored in the bottom of the fourth inning when designated hitter Walker Burchfield singled in Jorge Corona, who'd singled to lead off the inning, his second hit of the game. Corona was the only Dog with multiple hits on the afternoon.

Trailing 5-1, Tech threatened in the seventh with runners at first and second and nobody out, but Patriot sophomore lefthander Bryson Hammer, who got the win (4-3) with five innings of one-hit relief, got out of it on a foul territory popup, a caught stealing when a Bulldog tried to advance on a ball in the turf, and a strikeout.

"At 5-1, you're feeling pretty good about it," Burroughs said. "We were swinging the bat good; it just didn't happen today.

"We it some balls really hard; (the Patriots) made some good defensive plays out there," Burroughs said. "I don't think it's a lack of competing on our part; they're a really good team and they're playing really well right now."

The two teams are scheduled to meet again for three conference games at Horner Ballpark in Dallas, Friday-Sunday, April 21-23.

"I'm not sure we'll face a better pitching staff the rest of the year," Burroughs said. "Sometimes you have to tip your hat to the other team; the last two days, they were better than we were."

The Bulldogs play at Northwestern State in Natchitoches Tuesday at 6 p.m., then go to Houston for three games at Rice scheduled for Thursday and Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. The Dogs will be idle on Easter.