GEORGETOWN, Texas – Matthew Williams struck out a career-high nine hitters, leading the Concordia Texas baseball team to a 6-1 win over Southwestern on Thursday.

Williams would sit down the first nine Pirates of the game in order, including striking out five of them, and had a no-hitter broken up in the fourth by a leadoff single.

Williams would toss six strong innings, allowing only one run on four hits along with the nine K's and no walks.

The Tornados would jump out to a 2-0 lead in the first, after a Reed Carlton double in the gap scored Carson Cox from first, followed by a Caleb Rodriguez RBI single up the middle.

Concordia Texas would double their lead in the sixth, when Jacob Gwynne came through with a pinch-hit two-run single through the right side to score Daniel Williams and Rodriguez, who lead off the inning with back-to-back singles.

After Southwestern posted a run in the bottom half of the inning, Casen Novak would get it right back for the Tornados with a solo shot in the seventh over the left field to push it back to a four-run lead.

Carson Cox would provide an insurance run in the ninth, blasting a no-doubter out to left and CTX lead 6-1 going into the final half inning.

Justin Traxler, who entered in the 7th with the tying run at the plate, would work around a two-out single to retire the Pirates and pick up his eighth save of the season as the Tornados won it 6-1.

With the save, Traxler now ties Austin Derrick for the program's single-season saves record, set back in 2005.

Concordia Texas has now won six of their last seven games and will close out their regular season with a rematch against the Pirates on Friday at 7 p.m. from Tornado Field.