LAS CRUCES, NM — First win. First winning streak. First sweep.

It's safe to say the Bellarmine University baseball team is off to a rollicking start to the Chris Dominguez era.

On Sunday, the Knights completed a three-game sweep of 2022 NCAA Tournament team New Mexico State with a thrilling 10-9 victory in 11 innings at Presley Askew Field.

Bellarmine (3-0) launched four homers against New Mexico State (0-3), including a pair from senior center fielder Will Aubel, but the Knights strung together three straight hits in the 11th to plate the eventual game-winning run.

Senior pinch hitter Tommy Dilz led off the frame with a double and advanced to third on a single by senior third baseman Colin Bertsch. Dilz then raced home with the go-ahead run on a single by senior second baseman Peyton Back.

In the bottom half, senior left-hander Steven Thom faced the meat of New Mexico State's lineup and got a strikeout and ground out before following a single by inducing a game-ending fly out. Thom secured the first save of his career, as senior right-hander Matt Craven (1-0) notched the win.

Bellarmine's most incredible statistic over its first three games is perhaps that nine different Knights have accounted for the team's 10 home runs. Aubel, in his first start of the season, belted two round-trippers, a game-tying solo shot in the fourth and a three-run shot in the fifth that boosted the Knights' lead to 8-4.

Bellarmine had went ahead in the fifth on a solo blast by sophomore right fielder Casey Sorg, the first of his career. Before that, freshman shortstop Luke Scales had cranked a two-run shot in the second inning in the first at-bat of his college career.

Sorg added a sacrifice fly in the eighth to stake Bellarmine to a 9-6 lead, but New Mexico State forced extra innings after scoring twice in the bottom half and once in the ninth. The Knights accumulated 13 hits while the Aggies tallied 12.

Bertsch registered a career-high four hits while Aubel piled up a career-high five RBI. Back posted two hits. Craven and sophomore right-hander Arren Hash combined for 6.2 innings of relief.

Bellarmine will open a three-game series at former Division II archrival Southern Indiana at 4 p.m. (ET) Friday.

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