Tarleton State, Angelo State and Abilene Christian each won their opening games of the Lone Star Conference Baseball Championship at Crutcher Scott Field in Abilene, Texas.

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Tarleton State 6, Cameron 3 (Box Score)

Chris Casazza hit two home runs and drove in four runs as sixth-seeded Tarleton State upset top-seed Cameron, 6-3, in the first game of the Lone Star Conference Baseball Championship at Crutcher Scott Field.

The Texans (26-28-1) now advances to the winner's bracket game Sunday at 3 p.m., while the Aggies -- ranked No. 6 in the nation and No. 1 in the NCAA Division II South Central Region -- fall to 41-14 and will play a loser's bracket game Sunday at 11 a.m.

The Aggies' loss means that the tournament's top seed has lost its first game in three of the last four years.

Casazza wasted little time giving his team the lead as he blasted a two-run home run off Cameron ace Brad Bichel in the top of the first inning. Bichel -- the league's Pitcher of the Year after going 11-1 in the regular season -- gave up 10 hits, four runs (two earned) and only struck out three batters in eight innings.

Bichel's defense betrayed him, though, as the Aggies committed six errors. The Aggies had just seven hits in the contest and never could figure out Tarleton State pitcher Danny Morris, who struck out five in a complete-game performance.

TSU scored an unearned run in both the second and third innings before Casazza put an end to the game in the ninth with a monstrous two-run home run over the 20-foot high wall in centerfield to make it 6-2.

Angelo State 10, Eastern New Mexico 4  (Box Score)

Austin Lasprilla hit a home run and drove in three runs Saturday afternoon to lead No. 16 Angelo State to a 10-4 win over Eastern New Mexico in the first round of the Lone Star Conference Baseball Championship at Crutcher Scott Field.

The win pushes the second-seeded Rams to 41-16 overall as they advance to the winner's bracket game Sunday at 7 p.m. The Greyhounds -- making their first appearance in the conference tournament -- are now 29-26 and will play in a loser's bracket game Sunday at 11 a.m. against Cameron.

Angelo State led 5-2 before Seth Clabaugh's two-run home run to right-centerfield trimmed the lead to 5-4. But the Rams were able to pull away in their final two at-bats, scoring three runs in the seventh and two in the eighth to put the game away.

With two on and one out in the seventh, Lasprilla doubled to right field to drive in Chris Adamson and Jason Morris to push the Rams' lead to 7-4. Travis Lites followed Lasprilla with an RBI single to make it 8-4.

In the eighth, Adamson stretched his hitting streak to 25 straight games with a two-out, two-run blast to left field to put the finishing touches on the victory.

Kenny Elkind went the distance on the hill for the Rams, allowing just eight hits over nine innings to pick up the win and improve to 10-2 on the season.

Abilene Christian 7, Southeastern Oklahoma 2

Three Abilene Christian pitchers limited Southeastern Oklahoma to just two hits Saturday night and the Wildcats came up with timely hitting as they knocked off the Savage Storm, 7-2, in the first round of the Lone Star Conference Baseball Championship at Crutcher Scott Field.

The win gives the Wildcats their 40th win of the season, their 11th 40-win campaign in head coach Britt Bonneau's 13 seasons.

ACU (40-17) will hook up with rival Angelo State at 7 p.m. Sunday in a winner's bracket game.  SE (27-25) will take on Tarleton State at 3 p.m. Sunday.  A Texan victory would send the Savage Storm home in the double-elimination format.

ACU starting pitcher Preston Vancil went six solid innings and allowed just two hits -- a one-out home run to Scott Hancock, followed immediately by a double to Tyler Johnson.  Vancil (4-4) walked five, but struck out seven SE hitters.

None of those seven strikeouts was bigger than the one that ended the fifth inning.  ACU led 4-1 going into the inning, but the Savage Storm got a run after a leadoff walk and had a runner at first with two outs when Vancil faced his first serious threat of the night. 

He fell behind leadoff hitter Cody Pearce 3-0 in the count before ACU catcher Jordan Schmitt went out to the mound for a quick chat.  Whatever the senior backstop said worked because Vancil pumped a fastball by Pearce, and then got him to foul away another fastball to run the count full.  Vancil then got Pearce swinging to end the inning and the threat.

ACU got Vancil another run in the fifth on an RBI single by Thomas Bumpass, but the Wildcats senior right-hander ran into more trouble in the top of the sixth.  After striking out the first two hitters of the inning, he walked the next two to bring the tying run to the plate.

Once again he fell behind in the count, this time falling behind 3-1 to Josh Rorex.  But after running the count full, he got Rorex swinging on a fastball to end another threat.

That was all for Vancil, who threw 96 pitches in six innings of work.  He gave way to Matt Sullivan for an inning and then Brad Rutherford closed it out with two hitless innings.

ACU jumped on the board in the second when Brett Bochsler doubled to drive in Willie Uechi to make it 1-0.  The Wildcats got a little bit of breathing room in the third when Travis Latz singled home a run and Cameron Watten delivered an RBI single as part of a three-run inning that made it 4-0.

After the Wildcats got a run in the fifth, they finished it off with two runs in the bottom of the seventh with one coming home on an RBI fielder's choice by Watten and another scoring on an error.