Bats come alive as No. 20 A&M-Victoria baseball sweeps Huston-Tillotson
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
|
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | X | 6 | 7 | 0 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
|
|
5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 2 |
The offense came alive for the Texas A&M University-Victoria baseball team on Sunday.
The No. 20-ranked Jaguars plated 18 runs across both ends of a doubleheader to sweep a three-game series against Huston-Tillotson with wins of 6-1 and 12-2 (8 innings) at Riverside Stadium.
A&M-Victoria (9-5) has now won its last eight games in the all-time series with the Rams (7-6).
The Jaguars struck first in each game on Sunday and peppered Huston-Tillotson with 23 hits, including a season-high 16 in Game 2.
Freshmen Ty Boozer and Beck Zimmerman helped set the pace for A&M-Victoria.
Boozer was 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs, moving his season total to four in his first three career starts. Zimmerman extended his hitting streak to six games by going 5-for-8 with five RBIs in Sunday's twinbill.
Game 1
The Jaguars and Rams traded runs through the first three-and-a-half innings and were tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the first.
Boozer's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth put A&M-Victoria up 2-1 before a two-run double by Roberto Olguin made it 4-1 in the fifth. Zimmerman and Antonio Benitez provided sacrifice flies in the sixth inning to cap the scoring.
Olguin and Connor Kaiser had the lone multi-hit performances in Game 1 for A&M-Victoria.
Blane Zeplin improved to 3-0 on the mound after throwing 4.1 innings in which he did not allow an earned run. Andrew Rivera picked up his first save pitching 2.2 innings on one-hit baseball behind his fellow Victorian.
Game 2
A&M-Victoria didn't wait long to strike in the final game of the series, hanging a five spot on the Rams in the first inning en route to a run-rule win, the first of the year.
Zimmerman, Purcell and Boozer had RBI singles, but Jose Montanez's first home run of the season highlighted the explosive inning.
The Jaguars built an 8-0 lead with another RBI single by Beck Zimmerman in the second and an RBI single by Garrett Smith in the fifth inning. Smith later came around to score on a wild pitch in the same inning.
Zimmerman and Kaiser had RBI singles in the seventh and Trevor Berger made it 11-2 with an RBI single in the eighth before Zimmerman walked it off with an RBI single two batters later.
Every starter had a hit for the Jaguars with Benitez, Zimmerman, Kaiser, Olguin and Berger having multi-hit games.
Jacob Baker went the distance in the series finale, striking out a career-high eight batters across eight innings of work for his first win of the season. The Cuero native didn't allow an earned run and walked just three of the 33 batters he faced.
Next up
A&M-Victoria goes on the road for the next week, facing off against NCAA Division I foe Prairie View A&M on Tuesday and then opening conference play at Our Lady of the Lake Friday and Saturday.