Bearkat baseball took one on the chin this weekend.Three on the chin to be exact. The Kats dropped three games to the Southwest Texas Bobcats over the weekend losing 10-3 on Friday afternoon and 7-4 and 7-1 on Saturday.The Bobcats, who came into the weekend at the bottom of the Southland Conference standings at 2-7, extended their winning streak over the Kats to 13 games with the three game sweep. On Friday, the Kats jumped to an early 2-0 lead on a first-inning two-run home run by Lou Ferrell to right center field. Kevin Eddlemon put the Kats up 3-0 in the fourth with a long solo home run to right field.After picking up a run in the fifth inning to cut the Bearkat lead to two, the Bobcats exploded in the sixth inning, scoring six runs on three home runs off SHSU starter Jeff Vanlandingham.Chris Micheles started the spree with a three run shot to put the Bobcats up 4-3. Three batters later, Jason Washington crushed a ball over the left field fence for a two-run homer that was followed by a one-run shot by Ignacio Suarez that put SWT up 7-3.”It looked like they were just swinging for the fences,” Bearkat first baseman Dustin Craig said after the Saturday doubleheader. “I was looking at the charts, and they didn’t hit a ground ball out after the second inning. They’re just a home run-hitting team, and we left the ball up in the zone, and they hit it out.”Vanlandingham pitched the entire game for the Kats, giving up 10 runs on seven hits, striking out six and walking nine.”I think he thought the umpire was squeezing him,” Bearkat coach John Skeeters said. “Once they got that first run he began to pitch timidly. If he had pitched like he always pitches, we probably we would’ve probably won 3-1, but he didn’t. He started getting the ball up, and they started hitting it. That happens to pitchers.”On Saturday, the Bobcats bats remained hot out-hitting Sam Houston 22 to 12 in the two games.”According to Coach Harrington (SWT), this is the best they’ve played this year; unfortunately, it had to be against us,” Skeeters said. “This is probably the worst that we’ve swung at it in a while, and it’s certainly the worst we’ve pitched in a while. I don’t know if it’s coincidence or the fact that we’re playing a rival like Southwest Texas.”The Kats are back in action today at 3 p.m. when they host Centenary. Wednesday, they host Abilene Christian.This weekend, the Kats travel to Louisiana to take on conference leader Northwestern State. Skeeters said the Kats have to play, hit and pitch better if they want to beat Northwestern.”If we play like we did this weekend, we have no chance whatsoever,” Skeeters said. “If we play like this, they’d have to get the bubonic plague over there in order for us to win.”