EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - A day after suffering a doubleheader sweep at the hands of the Bradley Baseball team at O'Brien Field, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville (14-33) turned the tables on the Braves (17-27) Sunday afternoon at SimmonsCooper Stadium, taking both games of a non-conference baseball twinbill, 8-5 and 3-2.

Cougars right fielder Dustin Brooks completed a 4-for-4 effort in the nightcap by driving in the winning run with an infield single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh.

After falling behind 2-0 by giving up single runs in the first and third innings, Bradley pulled even by scoring one in the fifth and one in the seventh.  In the fifth, Jordan Colvin drew a two-out walk, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on SIUE third baseman's Zach Hawkins' fielding error of a Brian Martin ground ball. 

Mike McMillan led off the seventh with a single and gave way to pinch-runner Rob Elliott, who took second on a Christian Segar sacrifice and ultimately scored when SIUE's pitching staff walked the next three Bradley hitters.  The inning was short-circuited, however, when Martin's flyball to center ended up an inning-ending double play.  SIUE centerfielder Adam Eggemeyer, who committed a throwing error that allowed Bradley's winning run to score in Saturday's nightcap, gunned down Jason Leblebijian at the plate to keep Sunday's second game tied at 2-2.

In Sunday's opener, SIUE touched Bradley starter Jacob Booden for seven runs, three earned, on six hits in just 3.1 innings.

Freshman Chris Ritter ripped a 2-run single in the fourth inning, but the chance for a much bigger inning was lost earlier in the frame when shortstop Jason Leblebijian lined into a double play with runners on the corners and no outs.  Ritter added an RBI double during Bradley's 3-run seventh inning, but the comeback attempt ended when Kevin Sullivan went down swinging to end the game.

Playing out of conference the last two weekends, Bradley will resume its Missouri Valley Conference schedule Friday evening by opening a 3-game series at I-74 rival Illinois State.