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BASEBALL
Texas State sweeps California—Riverside at home
By Kirk Jones
Sports Reporter @kirk_jones11
T
he Texas State baseball team came away with a three-game sweep at Bobcat Ballpark against California-Riverside over the weekend, improving its record to 5-2 on the season. The Bobcats won the second of the three games Saturday in the bottom of the 10th when Granger Studdard, freshman outfielder, hit the single that gave Texas State an 8-7 victory. Studdard was 0-1 in the count and sent the next pitch to left center field, bringing in Cody Lovejoy, junior designated hitter, from third and Garrett Mattlage, junior infielder, from second. “My first walk-off in college was a great feeling,” Studdard said. “In high school, I’ve had a lot of situations like that just playing baseball my whole life. You get a lot of opportunities, but my first one in college is an awesome feeling.” Colby Targun, junior outfielder, missed an opportunity to win the second game in the bottom of the 9th when he sent a ground ball down the first base line that would have scored Lovejoy from third. However, the umpire called it a foul, and Targun was thrown from the game for arguing. “It was a big turn in momentum,” Studdard said. “We came out the
next inning and minimized the runs, allowing just one, and came out, got some runners on base and had a situation to win the game.” Hunter Lemke, senior pitcher, allowed a leadoff triple and a single to score the runner from third, which let California-Riverside take the lead 7-6 in the top of the 10th inning. Lemke pitched 1.1 innings and struck out one to keep the Bobcats in the game headed into the bottom of the 10th where the team was able to pull off a win. “I just went out there looking to throw strikes,” Lemke said. “My main goal is always to throw strikes, keep our defense in play and hopefully get a 1-2-3 inning.” Friday night’s game, the first of the weekend, featured a duel between both teams’ pitchers that ended when sophomore Lucas Humpal came away with the victory and a career-high 13 strikeouts while earning his first collegiate complete game shutout. Jacob Smigelski, CaliforniaRiverside right-hander, pitched six innings, striking out seven and allowing one earned run for the Highlanders. The Bobcats won the game 2-0. Tyler Pearson, senior catcher, hit a solo home run, which was his second of the season. Humpal allowed four hits over 3.2 innings and gave up 6 runs against Michigan in the Feb. 14 season opener. Humpal brought his previous ERA of 9.84 to 2.84
Junior Austen Williams pitches against California—Riverside Feb. 23 at Bobcat Ballpark.
after the game against CaliforniaRiverside. Humpal leads the Sun Belt in strikeouts in a single game with 13. Texas State is third in the Sun Belt in total strikeouts and earned run average. Texas State defeated CaliforniaRiverside 7-5 in Sunday’s seriesclosing game. Riverside scored 3 runs in the top of the 9th in an attempt to pull the team to victory.
The Bobcats finished with seven hits in the game. Pearson went 2-2 on the day and scored 1 of 7 runs. Antonio Gonzales, CaliforniaRiverside starting pitcher, allowed 4 runs over 2.2 innings and struck out two, earning his first loss on the season. Lemke made his second appearance in three games to close out the win. He pitched one inning,
Reynaldo Leaños Jr. | Staff Photographer
allowing 3 runs while striking out two. Lemke pitched 2.1 innings, striking out three and allowing 4 earned runs for the series. The game was Lemke’s second victory of the season. Texas State is off to its best start since the 2010 season. The Bobcats will continue their home stand Tuesday against Texas A&MCorpus Christi.
SOFTBALL
Bobcats take 3 of 5 in Texas Shootout at Denton
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By Cameron Cutshall Sports Reporter @CameronCutshall
The Texas State softball team competed in the Texas Shootout this weekend in Denton, going 3-2 in the tournament and extending its overall record to 11-5.
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The Bobcats recorded one hit by Delia Saucedo, senior right fielder, in game one against North Texas. An RBI double by Danielle Hoff, first baseman, in the bottom of the first gave the Mean Green a 1-0 win. “I think as a team we couldn’t adjust to the umpires throughout
the game,” said Kendall Wiley, sophomore first baseman. “We let them take control of the game instead of making the adjustments we needed to make as the game went on.” Senior Ashley Kirk pitched the complete game for the Mean Green, giving up one hit, walking
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five and striking out nine. Rayn House, senior pitcher, recorded her second loss of the season for the Bobcats. “They came out and had the better day,” House said. Texas State swept both of its games Friday against Sam Houston State and Abilene Christian. Timishia North, senior center fielder, hit an RBI double in the top of the third inning to get the Bobcats on the board 1-0 in game one against SHSU. Texas State added 2 more runs in the fourth inning on a throwing error by Sarah Allison, Bearkats shortstop, scoring Alli Akina, junior pinch runner. Lexi Fryar, freshman catcher, scored another run on an RBI sacrifice fly to give the Bobcats a 3-0 lead in the top of the fourth. The Bearkats gave the Bobcats their final run of the game on an RBI single to right field to score Jordan Masek, senior shortstop, in the top of the seventh inning, giving Texas State a 4-2 win. Kaylee Garner, freshman pitcher, earned her second save of the season. House recorded her seventh win of the season, pitching 5.1 innings, giving up six hits, 2 runs and striking out six in the matchup. “We cannot be successful without energy,” House said. “We have to bring energy every day, because we all feed off of each other.” The Bobcats scored all of their runs in the first three innings
against Abilene Christian, winning 8-3. Coralee Ramirez, senior right fielder, went 4-4 in the game scoring 2 runs. Wiley went 3-4 in the game adding a run and an RBI. Texas State defeated Prairie View A&M Saturday afternoon 6-0, giving the Bobcats their 11th win of the season. House earned her eighth victory of the season and struck out a career-high 15 batters against the Panthers. House picked up her fourth complete game shutout of this season. Katie Doerre, sophomore catcher, and Kortney Koroll, junior designated player, both hit 2-run homers in the game. Texas State closed out the tournament Sunday afternoon with a loss in a rematch against North Texas. The Bobcats had four hits in the game and scored on a home run by Wiley. The Mean Green hit a 2-run home run in the second and added an RBI single in the fourth to seal the victory for North Texas 3-1. Texas State’s record dropped to 11-5 on the season while the Mean Green earned its 11th-straight victory this season to move to 12-3 overall. North Texas’ Kirk earned the win to move to 6-1 on the season, and House dropped her third game of the season. “We wanted to dominate (this weekend),” House said. “Our energy wasn’t quite as high, but we did what we needed to do to get three wins. We’ll use this weekend to move on and get better from it.”