AUSTIN, Texas — The first inning told you everything.

Not just that St. Edward's was going to win Sunday's series finale. Not just that the Hilltoppers were going to take the series from UT Permian Basin. But how—with pressure, with patience, and with an offense that has learned how to turn one good swing into an avalanche.

Five runs before the Falcons could blink, and from there, St. Edward's never looked back, rolling to a 13-3 win at Lucian-Hamilton Field to secure the series victory.

The Hilltoppers didn't wait for a moment, they created one immediately.

Consecutive walks loaded the bases in the opening frame, and then the lineup did what it's done all weekend: convert. BOSTON LEE drew an RBI walk. TREVOR SEBEK cleared space with a two-run double down the line. KADE NATHMAN lifted a sacrifice fly. KAIN SANCHEZ capped it with an RBI single. Five runs, three hits, and a dugout already leaning forward.

That was the tone. The rest was confirmation.

Sanchez became the center of it all as the game unfolded, finishing 4-for-5 with four RBI, including a pair of run-scoring doubles that kept stretching the margin inning by inning. Sebek matched the pressure with two doubles and three runs scored, constantly in motion, constantly in scoring position.

And everywhere you looked, there were baserunners.

Fourteen walks. Hit-by-pitches. Deep counts. Traffic that never cleared. This was the Hilltopper offense at full tilt, not just swinging, but building innings.

They added one in the third. Four more in the fourth. One in the sixth. Two in the seventh. No single inning matched the opening burst, but every inning carried the same idea: keep the line moving, keep the pressure on, keep the door closed.

On the mound, CARSON BLAKELEY made sure it stayed that way.

The right-hander worked six steady innings, allowing just two runs while striking out eight with no walks, pitching ahead and pitching through traffic without letting the game tilt. When UT Permian Basin looked to respond, Blakeley answered with a ground ball, strikeout, and reset.

It was the kind of outing that pairs perfectly with an offense like this: control, tempo, trust.

By the time the seventh inning arrived, the question wasn't who would win, it was how emphatically the Hilltoppers would finish it.

Sebek doubled. Nathman followed. Sanchez drove in another. One more run crossed on a walk, pushing the final margin to ten and putting a bow on a game—and a series—that saw St. Edward's learn, adjust, and ultimately take control.

Game 1 was the breakout.
Saturday tested it.
Sunday answered it.

That's the Hilltopper way—pressure that builds, mistakes that multiply, and a lineup that doesn't just score runs, but creates inevitability.