Clint Johnston, Nathan Love and Brent Voorhees helped their head coach Lee Driggers reach his 300th win at McMurry with a 9-1 win over Sul Ross State Friday at Driggers Field. Johnston threw his second complete game in a row and improved to 2-1 on the season while Love and Voorhees each added two RBI in McMurry's American Southwest Conference opener.

Just one week after Johnston shut down the Mississippi College Choctaws with a 10-strikeout performance, he was almost as impressive in his second win of the season. He allowed just one run in the top of the fourth inning. Charlie Sanchez doubled and later scored on an error by Johnston.

Johnston lowered his ERA to 1.78 on the season. He has allowed only five earned runs in 25.1 innings of work. Friday, he scattered six hits, walked just one and struck out five giving him 21 K's on the season.

Driggers, in his 12th season with McMurry, achieved the 300-win milestone. He has also coached at the high school and professional levels. The team has a .615 winning percentage under his direction and has won three conference titles and made four trips to the NCAA regional tournament. In 23 years as a head coach, he's compiled 681 wins with stints with the Pittsburgh Pirates AA organization, Cooper High School, Brenham High School, Willow Ridge High School, Tarleton State University and Hardin-Simmons University along with McMurry.

Joseph Cervantez led off the bottom of the first on a hit-by-pitch and scored all the way from first when Hank Casey doubled to right centerfield. McMurry didn't score again until Voorhees hit a towering solo homerun to leadoff the bottom of the fourth inning.

Cody Kemmerling ran into serious trouble for Sul Ross in the bottom of the fifth. Jeff Jackson singled and scored later on a bases loaded walk by Derek David. Voorhees then sacrificed home Nathan Love, but the Lobos were able to escape further damage as Weston Franco flew out with the bases loaded.

McMurry could have broken the game open in the fifth, but the team chose to put it to Kimmerling in the sixth instead. Lance Jones and George Whitten each led off with singles. Then, Jackson doubled home Jones and Love drove in both Jackson and Whitten with a single to left center field and the Lobos went to the pen.

McMurry managed two more runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. Cervantez scored on a wild pitch and David scored Love when he reached on a fielder's choice.

Love stole a base with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning. That was McMurry's 14th stolen base of the season in its 14th game. That matched last season's total of 14 the team recorded in 40 games.