Tarleton State edged Incarnate Word, 3-2, Angelo State topped West Texas A&M, 12-5, and Abilene Christian defeated Texas A&M-Kingsville, 7-2, Sunday at the Lone Star Conference Baseball Championship in San Angelo, Texas.

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Tarleton State 3, Incarnate Word 2

The Tarleton baseball fell in a 2-0 hole late Sunday night, but Tarleton junior Ryan Small’s bases-loaded, three-run double in the bottom of the seventh gave the Texans a 3-2 victory over Incarnate Word in the second round of the LSC Tournament.

Lightning delayed not only Tarleton’s contest, but also the one prior. Originally scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., the actual start time was closer to 10 p.m. With that much of a delay, it was no wonder that the Texans got off to a slow start offensively.

The Cardinals took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, and then added another run in the third inning. UIW had a 2-0 advantage, but that would all change as the clock ticked past midnight and into the early hours of Monday morning.

Small managed his clutch hit after Jonathan Schmitz doubled to lead off the inning, Landon Thompson singled and Andy Wolfe walked to load the bases. That is when Small took a 1-1 pitch and ripped it to left, plating all three runners.

That would be all Tarleton would need to ground the Cardinals, 3-2 in the second round of the LSC Tournament.

Schmitz finished the game 3-for-4, while Garrett Hardey went 2-for-4 and Small provided the three RBI’s.

Matt Buckmaster performed well in the starter’s role for the Texans, giving up just one earned run on four hits, while striking out eight in six innings.

Austin Coble (3-2) would get the win however, after tossing a perfect seventh inning in relief. Britt Robertshaw then tossed two shutout innings to earn his seventh save of the year and close out UIW.

Tarleton (28-19) will now head into the next round of the conference championship where it will meet Angelo State on very short rest. That game will take place less than 12 hours after the completion of the second round game, with a Noon start on Monday.

Angelo State 12, West Texas A&M 5

Quaid McKinnon had four hits and drove in six runs as Angelo State eliminated West Texas A&M from the Lone Star Conference Baseball Championship with a 12-5 win that saw a two and a half hour weather delay and 18 ASU hits on Sunday at Foster Field.

Angelo State (38-14), which led 7-1 after two innings, will play at noon on Monday in the third round against the winner of Sunday night's game between Incarnate Word and Tarleton State. The Cardinals and Texans were scheduled to start at 10:30 p.m.

McKinnon finished the game with a home run, double and two singles for the Rams, while Brett Parsons and Lee Neumann each finished with three-hit games against the Buffs. Andrew LaCombe finished with two hits and three RBI, while Ryan Greer and Tate Allison also had two hit games for the Rams who have now won nine straight games.

Matt Rechkemmer (3-0) earned the win for the Rams by striking out three and limiting WT to five hits in 6.0 innings. Jake Albert, Craig Blair and Travis Stavinoha each pitched one inning and only gave up two combined runs.

Ryan Houston (4-4) claims the loss for WT after giving up seven hits and seven runs against the Rams in 1.2 innings of work. Kendall Boone led the Buffs with three hits.

Abilene Christian 7, Texas A&M-Kingsville 2

Austin Palmer's left arm and Travis Schuetze's bat kept the ACU Wildcats' season alive Sunday as they knocked off Texas A&M-Kingsville, 7-2, in a Lone Star Conference Post-Season Tournament elimination game at Foster Field.

The win pushes ACU to 25-27 on the season and into Monday afternoon's elimination game against an opponent to be determined later Sunday. ACU will play at 3:30 p.m. Monday and, with a win, could play again Monday at 7 p.m. ACU's win eliminates the No. 2 seed Javelinas from the tournament with a 31-16 record.

The Wildcats' win puts an end to an eight-game losing streak, the program's longest skid in head coach Britt Bonneau's 16 seasons.

Palmer entered Sunday's start with a 1-2 record and 5.89 ERA while his opponent on the mound, Jaden Dillon, brought an 8-1 record and 1.80 ERA into the game. Dillon's efforts earned him LSC Pitcher of the Year honors, but the Wildcats gave him a rude send-off to his season by collecting seven hits and six runs (four earned) in six innings.

ACU got on the board with a run in the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Tyler Eager that scored Chuck Duarte. The Javelinas got the game tied in the third with a run against Palmer, but the Wildcats went to work in the middle innings to keep their season alive.

First the Wildcats got three runs in the fifth and then two more in the sixth to push their lead to 6-1 over the Javelinas.

In the fifth, Reed Watson reached and went to second on a throwing error by second baseman Ben Villafuerte. Ryan Luckie then dropped down a bunt to move Watson to third, but all runners were safe when Dillon threw late to third in an attempt to throw out the lead runner.

Schuetze then singled through the left side to drive in Watson to make it 2-1. Luckie then scored on a wild pitch, allowing Schuetze to move to third. He then scored when Kevin Finklea lifted a sacrifice fly to right to drive in a run and make it 4-1.

In the sixth, Duncan Blades singled to right with one out in front of a walk by Watson. Luckie grounded out to Dillon, but both runners moved up to give ACU runners at second and third. Schuetze then drove them both in with a single to right field that plated Watson and Blades. Schuetze was thrown at second to end the inning trying to go to second on the throw home.

The Wildcats put another run on the board in the bottom of the seventh when Kyle Conwell delivered an RBI single up the middle that drove in Finklea to make it 7-1.

While the Wildcats were putting together their best offensive outing in a couple of weeks, Palmer shut down Kingsville's offense, scattering eight hits over nine complete innings, his third complete game of the season, but first in a nine-inning game.

Palmer allowed single runs in the third and eighth, but was never in any trouble, allowing just one earned run and throwing 129 pitches in the process.