MARYVILLE, Mo. - The Newman University Jets avoided a three-game sweep with a 3-2 victory over the Northwest Missouri State University baseball team on Sunday afternoon.

The Jets (18-15 overall, 8-12 MIAA) managed only five hits against the Bearcats (11-20 overall, 7-13 MIAA). Newman tallied a pair of unearned runs off Northwest starter Alex Slocum to take the one-run contest.

Newman took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth by taking advantage of a leadoff walk off Bearcat starter Alex Slocum. The Jets had runners on first and third when they succeeded on a safety squeeze bunt for the first run.

The Bearcats missed out on three scoring opportunities in the second, third and fourth innings. Northwest left runners at second and third in the second, the bases loaded in the third and two more runners on in the fourth.

Newman took advantage of a Bearcat error in the fifth to plate a pair of unearned runs to take a 3-0 lead.

Northwest pushed across two runs in the fifth. Brett Holden led off the fifth with his second hit of the game. Drew Mackie drew a walk to put two runners on base. Donovan Warren flew out to right, which allowed Holden to tag and advance to third. Mackie took second on a stolen base. Tyler Peters came through with a sacrifice fly to left to score Holden. Mackie would later score on a wild pitch to pull the Bearcats to within 3-2.

Northwest reliever Jacob Gajic pitched the final 4 1/3 innings of two-hit, scoreless baseball. Gajic struck out six including all three batters he faced in the ninth.

The Bearcats put together a two-out rally in the bottom of the ninth. Mackie ripped a double to left-center. Warren worked a walk and Mackie moved up to third on a wild pitch on ball four to Warren. Warren stole second base in Tyler Peters's at-bat. However, Peters lined out to center to end it and gave the Jets the 3-2 win.

NOTES: Slocum took the loss and fell to 2-4 on the season ... Slocum worked 4 2/3 innings ... Slocum allowed three hits and three runs (one earned). He struck out five and walked two ... Brett Holden accounted for three of Northwest six hits with three singles against the Jets ... Ryan Williams went 2-for-3 with a walk ... Holden notched his ninth multi-hit game this season ... Williams posted his fourth multi-hit game ... Ryan Koski extended his streak of reaching base to 15 straight games ... Koski went 0-for-2 with two walks against Newman on Sunday.