Cameron, Angelo State and Abilene Christian each won their
opening games of the Lone Star Conference Baseball Championship at
Crutcher Scott Field in Abilene, Texas.
Cameron 7, Texas A&M-Kingsville 6
Tom Dicker's two-out single in the bottom of the eighth inning
Saturday morning drove in the game-winning run as Cameron squeaked
past Texas A&M-Kingsville, 7-6, in the first game of the Lone
Star Conference Baseball Championship at ACU's Crutcher Scott
Field.
The win pushes the Aggies to 28-17 overall, while the Javelinas
fall to 28-24. Cameron will play again Sunday at 7 p.m. while
the Javelinas will play in a possible elimination game Sunday at 3
p.m.
The Aggies held a comfortable 6-2 lead going to the top of the
eighth before the Javelinas rallied against Cameron pitchers Logan
Grimes and Ricky Cramer.
The first three Javelinas of the eighth reached against Grimes,
who was then lifted in favor of Cramer. He got the first two
batters he faced to pop out before walking in a run to make it
6-3.
Then on the first pitch that Cody Stigall saw from Cramer he
drilled a bases-clearing double to left-centerfield to tie the game
at 6-6.
But in the bottom of the eighth the Aggies worked their way to
runners at first and second with no outs. After a fielder's
choice erased the lead runner and a strikeout of Alex Lyons gave
the Aggies two outs, Dicker stepped in and delivered an RBI single
to drive in Codi Harshman with the eventual game-winning run.
Cramer (6-4) retired the Javelinas in order in the ninth to nail
down the victory for the Aggies.
Angelo State 23, Southeastern Oklahoma 10
Angelo State catcher Chris Adamson put on a prodigious power
show Saturday evening at Crutcher Scott Field as he led the Rams to
a 23-10 blowout win over Southeastern Oklahoma State in a Lone Star
Conference Baseball Championship game at Crutcher Scott Field.
Adamson hit three home runs to tie a single-game school record
and drove in 10 run to set ASU's single-game record. He
started his barrage with a solo home run in the third, an RBI
fielder's choice in the fourth and grand slams in the fifth and
ninth innings.
The win pushes the Rams to 32-24 on the season, while the Savage
Storm fall to 32-20. Angelo State will play at 7 p.m. Sunday
against Cameron, while Southeastern will play at 11 a.m. Sunday in
an elimination game against the loser of Saturday's late game
between Tarleton State and ACU.
The Rams and Savage Storm combined for 33 runs, 35 hits, 17
walks, six hit batters, four errors and 13 different pitchers,
including nine by Southeastern.
Aside from Adamson's heroics, Clay Puckett was 5 for 7 with one
RBI, Keith Towne and Travis Lites each drove in three runs, and
Isaac Garcia had three hits (one home run) and drove in a pair of
runs.
Scott Crook went five innings in a starting role to pick up the
win for the Rams, while Jimmy Johnson went just 4 1/3 innings for
the Savage Storm and fell to 8-1 with the loss.
Abilene Christian 10, Tarleton State 3
Aaron Oliver has been Abilene Christian’s offensive
catalyst all season, and he was back at it again Saturday night as
he propelled his team to a 10-3 win over Tarleton State in the Lone
Star Conference Baseball Championship at Crutcher Scott Field.
Oliver was 2 for 4 with three runs scored and three RBI as the
Wildcats won their fifth straight tournament game dating back to
last year's 4-0 run to the championship.
With the win, the Wildcats improve to 43-13 overall and move
into a 3 p.m. game Sunday against Texas A&M-Kingsville, a 7-6
loser to Cameron earlier Saturday. Tarleton State, meanwhile,
will play a loser's bracket game at 11 a.m. Sunday against
Southeastern Oklahoma State.
Tarleton State took three of four games from ACU last weekend,
and the Texans picked up right where they left off Saturday night,
jumping on ACU starting pitcher Cameron Aspaas for three runs in
the first three innings. Chris Casazza had a solo home run to
lead off the second inning, and then the Texans tacked on two more
runs in the third to make it 3-0.
But that's when Oliver stepped in and changed the complexion of
the game. With one out and one on, he drilled a ball deep to
right field that clanged off the scoreboard for a two-run home run
that cut the Texans' lead to 3-2.
ACU would go on to score two runs in the fourth, two in the
fifth, two in the sixth and two in the eighth as the Wildcats
scored 10 unanswered runs. Ian Tomkins got the game tied in
the fourth with a sacrifice fly that scored Willie Uechi, and Bret
Bochsler scored a couple of pitches later on a wild pitch to gave
ACU a 4-3 lead.
Bochsler had a clutch two-out, two-run single in the fifth to
make it 6-3 and the Wildcats tacked on two more in the sixth on an
RBI triple by Oliver and an RBI single by Will Calhoun. ACU
scored its final two runs in the eighth when Bowker scored on a
double steal and Oliver scored on a wild pitch.
Aspaas went seven strong innings, scattering seven hits and not
allowing a walk as he picked up the win to improve to 6-4.
Josh Crockett pitched a scoreless eighth and Brad Rutherford a
dominant ninth to wrap it up for the Wildcats.
-- Courtesy of ACU Sports Information