KINGSVILLE, Texas - The Texas A&M-Kingsville baseball program connected for four runs between the seventh and eighth innings on Friday night at Nolan Ryan Field but failed to find the final effort to get over the top as No. 24 Angelo State took game one of the weekend series by a count of 8-5.

The Javelinas (10-5) surrendered three home runs to the Rams (16-4) and were held to one run through the first six frame before breaking through in the seventh. Junior Seth Spinn (Holland, Texas) started the scoring with a bounding ball back up the middle in the bottom of the second to plate redshirt junior Kohl Ullman (Houston, Texas) for a 1-0 lead going into the third.

The first home run came in the top half of the following inning as Jacob Finke pushed the 1-1 offering from senior Preston Plovanich (Santa Fe, Texas) over the left field wall to flip the score to 2-1 favoring the visitors. Plovanich took the loss for the Hogs after getting the hook with two outs in the top of the sixth and ended the day with five runs allowed, all earned, and eight punchouts.

ASU tacked on three more in the sixth after an RBI groundout from Parker Bramlett capped Riley Peterson, while Jackson Hardy sent the second home run of the game out to left on the next at bat to put TAMUK in a 5-1 deficit.

Nick Seginowich added the final long ball in the top of the seventh, a two-run shot to left, for a 7-1 Ram lead heading into the bottom half of the frame.

The Hogs finally broke through in the bottom of the seventh after redshirt senior Manny Loredo (McAllen, Texas) came home on a diving liner through the left half of the diamond from classmate Pablo Hernandez (Havana, Cuba). Angelo State got the run back in the top half of the eighth after Hardy scored on a pair of miscues before the host tallied three more in the bottom half.

Sophomore Giancarlo Servin (Edinburg, Texas) dropped the 0-2 offering from Brandon Dusenberry into shallow right center for a run, while senior Donovan Lewis (Alvin, Texas) laced the 3-1 pitch from Josh Barnett into left center to plate Spinn and Servin.

TAMUK was unable to make the most of its final at bat, however, as Barnett faced the minimum in the bottom of the ninth to hand the hosts an 8-5 loss.

Spinn ended up with three hits in five at bats on the night, adding one RBI and one run in the process. It was his ninth multi-hit game of the season and third with at least three hits, including his second in a row after he posted three hits in the comeback win over St. Edward's earlier in the week.

Servin added two hits of his own, his eighth multi-hit game of the year, while Hernandez added his sixth of his senior campaign with two on the evening.

Saturday's doubleheader of the four-game set is set for 1 p.m. CT at Nolan Ryan Field.

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