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Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 7 Central Arkansas 6
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – In what started as a pitchers’ duel, the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball team rallied from a five-run deficit to in its final two at-bats forcing extra innings before Martin Parra’s RBI single to left drove in Jacob Perales in the bottom of the 10th for a 7-6 win on Friday at Chapman Field.
With the game knotted at six in the bottom of the tenth. Perales reached on an error by Graham Martin who entered the game at shortstop when Bobby Pritchett took to the mound. Perales went to second on a single by Jeramie Marek that extended his hit streak to 10 games. Parra singled through the left side of the infield with his first hit.
“There was no one hero offensively,” Islander coach Scott Malone said. “We finally started to swing the stick and once we got some hits it became contagious. Hopefully, we can build on it for the rest of the series.”
The win was the Islanders seventh in Southland Conference play as they move to 7-15 in league play and 15-28 overall. The Bears fall to 8-14 in the Southland Conference and 17-22 on the year. The teams will meet again at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Texas A&M Corpus Christi Recap
Central Arkansas Recap
Texas State 9 McNeese State 4
SAN MARCOS, Texas – Kyle Kubitza went 2-for-4 with a pair of two-run home runs and Kane Holbrooks earned his ninth win of the season as the Texas State Bobcat baseball team collected a 9-4 victory from the McNeese State Cowboys Friday night at Bobcat Field.
Texas State improves to 16-5 in league action, while McNeese State drops to 8-14. The Bobcats extended their lead in the conference to 2 ½ games.
The Bobcats extended its streak to ten-straight games when a four-run third inning started things off. Tyler Sibley hit his seventh home run of the season with a solo shot on two outs and Spenser Dennis notched an RBI single with a base hit through the left side. With Prestridge left on second base after reaching on a single up the middle, Ben Theriot pushed the pair across with a deep double to left center.
Holbrooks shut down the Cowboys from the mound allowing just two hits over four innings, but the foe doubled the tally in the top of the fifth and used the pair of hits to score its first run.
Texas State Recap
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Lamar 6 Northwestern State 0
BEAUMONT, Texas – Freshman right-hander Eric Harrington struck out four and posted his second complete-game shutout as Lamar defeated Northwestern State 6-0 in the first game of a Southland Conference series at Vincent-Beck Stadium on Friday.
Harrington (7-0) remained perfect on the season as he helped Lamar (26-17, 12-10 Southland) post its sixth shutout of the season, joining Texas for the most in the country. It was the second solo shutout by the Groves, Texas product as well. He allowed nine hits, with three on the infield, and the Cardinal defense turned a season-high tying three double plays on the Demons, who entered the game with an SLC-low 12.
Lamar gave their ace some room to work with by scoring five runs in the first three innings. The Cardinals Tyler Link led off with a double and Brian Taylor followed with a single before a double steal put both men in scoring position with one out. Link scored on a Chris Dunkin single and Taylor followed a batter later when Jeremiah Sammy put one back up the middle. Quentin Luquette gave Lamar a 3-0 lead on an RBI single through the right side.
Anthony Moore led off the second with a triple to the warning track in right center on a ball that might have been over the fence on most days, but with the 15-20 mile-per-hour wind blowing in, it stayed in the park. V.J. Bunner singled as Moore crossed home for a 4-0 lead.
Lamar Recap
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Southeastern Louisiana 5 Sam Houston State 3
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Southeastern Louisiana fell behind early but scored three times in the seventh to take the lead to rally past a red-hot Sam Houston State squad for a 5-3 win on Friday night.
The Lions’ 16th come-from-behind win of the season snapped a two-game losing streak for Southeastern and snapped a 10-game winning streak for the Bearkats, the longest streak in Sam Houston’s NCAA Division I history (dating back to 1986).
Southeastern (24-17, 13-9 Southland Conference) fell behind early as Sam Houston scored a pair of runs with two outs to take a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first.
However, Southeastern junior right handed starter Ryan Boudreaux settled in after that. The LSU-Eunice transfer and Gonzales, La., native kept the best-hitting team in the Southland off the board in each of the next six innings, retiring eight straight batters at one point.
Meanwhile, the Lions got to work against Sam Houston’s Sean Weatherford. The Lions got on the board in the fourth as senior second baseman Ty Summerlin drilled a leadoff double down the left field line. Senior left fielder Brandon Street followed with a run-scoring single for his team-leading 42nd RBI of the season as the Lions headed to the fifth down just 2-1.
Sam Houston State Recap
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Stephen F. Austin 6 UT Arlington 4
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Stephen F. Austin scored four runs in the first inning off of UT Arlington starter Ryan Robinson and played errorless defense behind a trio of pitchers in hanging on to a 6-4 win over the Mavericks at Jaycees Field on Friday.
Erich Lehmann won his fourth consecutive start for the Lumberjacks (17-23, 8-13 Southland Conference) who won their second game over UT Arlington (23-18, 14-8 Southland) this season. SFA also defeated UTA 12-6 in Edinburg on Feb. 27 at the Al Ogletree Classic.
Lehmann went 6.0 innings and struck out four, allowing all four UTA runs, with three of them coming in the fifth inning. He, along with relievers Chris Court and Richard Folmer, allowed five hits to the middle-of-the-order trio of Michael Choice, Matt Otteman and Andrew Kainer, but surrendered just four hits to the rest of the lineup.
Court put just one runner on base in his 2.0 innings of relief, setting things up for Folmer to pick up his eighth save of the season.
Robinson entered the afternoon with just a 0.84 ERA in Southland Conference games, but got roughed up early by a Lumberjack offense that has now recorded at least 10 hits in nine consecutive games.
It took just two pitches for Stephen F. Austin to get on the board as Zach Gardner, who was just a double short of the cycle at Houston on Tuesday, shot Robinson’s first pitch of the game into the right field corner for a leadoff two-bagger. Tanner Hines then directed the very next pitch through the hole on the right side of the infield to plate Gardner from second.
Stephen F Austin Recap
UT-Arlington Recap
UTSA 5 Nicholls State 1
THIBODAUX, La. – UTSA scored four runs in the 11th inning and posted a 5-1 victory at Nicholls Friday night. The Roadrunners won their fourth game in a row and for the fifth time in their last half dozen contests, a stretch that includes a pair of extra-inning triumphs.
That made a winner out of left-handed reliever Matt Crocker (2-0), who retired all six Colonels hitters he faced over the final two panels, including a pair of strikeouts. Crocker has won two games and fanned 17 hitters in his last 8 2/3 innings of work, which covers five outings.
Sophomore Tyler Carpenter, who was 4-for-5 on the night, led off the deciding frame with a lead-off double off the top of the left-field wall. Freshman Casey Selsor then laid a bunt down the third-base line that Nicholls reliever Ross Larson could not handle and that put runners on the corners.
Junior Ryan Rummel followed with a double that brought home both runners. After freshman Jason Mohn sacrificed Rummel to third, senior Marshal Davis dropped down a suicide squeeze down the first-base line for the third run of the frame and senior Jose Hernandez then launched a solo homer to left, his team-leading 11th of the season, to complete the four-run frame.
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