LAREDO, TEXAS – The Texas A&M-Kingsville baseball team traveled to Texas A&M-International for a non-conference game on Tuesday afternoon and it was the Dustdevils holding on for an 8-6 win at Jorge Haynes Field.

The Javelinas (5-2) jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but the Dustdevils (7-3) batted around in the fourth inning scoring five times. The Hogs scored twice in the top of the fifth, but TAMIU came right back with three more runs in the bottom half of the inning.

The Javelinas had chances to score in both the sixth and eighth innings. They pulled to within two runs in
the seventh inning on Ben Villafuerte’s (Corpus Christi/Carroll HS) two-run homer.

Austin Voros and Matt Arruda combined for five hits capitalizing on three Javelina errors in the winning effort for the Dustdevils. Donald Fennell picked up the win and Chris Villa was credited the save as the team used six different pitchers to pick up the victory.

The Javelinas received a strong starting performance from Clay Stephens (Houston/Bellaire HS) who went 3.0 innings while allowing two hits and striking out one. Adam Aspaas (San Marcos, CA/Mission Hills HS), Jeremy Flores (Victoria/Memorial HS) and Adrian De La Garza (Pearland/Pearland HS) combined to pitch 3.2 shutout innings of relief.

The Javelina offense had seven hits and had six other baserunners reach due to walks or hit by pitches.
Villafuerte finished with three RBI’s in the game while Joe Tallerine (Industry/Bellville HS) scored twice in the lead-off spot. James Black (Spring/Klein Collins HS) led the team with two hits.

The Hogs are back in action on Thursday night at 6 p.m. at home against Central Oklahoma.
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