KINGSVILLE, Texas- The Texas A&M-Kingsville baseball team was defeated on Friday at Nolan Ryan Field, losing 7-2, to the UT Tyler Patriots in Lone Star Conference action in Kingsville, Texas.
"Well, it was disappointing because I didn't think we played our best baseball today," said coach
Jason Gonzales. "I think we had to many free passes, and we didn't play good defense, and against a good team you can't give them nine free bases, you got to catch it and throw it and then we only scored in two innings. We've got to regroup and comeback and try find a way to get after them tomorrow."
The Patriots (6-3, 6-3 LSC) bested the Javelinas (6-4, 5-4 LSC), scoring seven runs on six hits, while TAMUK managed only a pair of runs, scattering seven hits across nine innings, with three errors.
UTT wasted no time getting on the scoreboard, plating a run in the first following a Javelina miscue. The Hogs answered in the bottom of the frame, with sophomore
Jake Chapman (Boerne, Texas) slicing a single through the right side, scoring senior
Kyler Bumstead (Kountze, Texas).
Chapman earned his second RBI of the day in the bottom of the third, with a single up the middle allowing senior
Giancarlo Servin (Edinburg, Texas) to score after swiping second, resulting in a 2-1 score line favoring the Pack.
Senior
Kolby Lunsford (Helotes, Texas) kept UTT at bay over the next three innings before a four-run fifth, chased him out of the ballgame, as the reigning all-conference selection finished with four strikeouts in 4.1 innings of work, allowing four hits and walking four.
The bullpen kept TAMUK in the game down the stretch as junior
Luis Martinez (Grulla, Texas), sophomore
Hunter Kloesel (Shiner, Texas), and redshirt freshman
Mason Longoria (Victoria, Texas) kept runners off the base paths.
The Patriots tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the top of the ninth, providing a 7-2 deficit that the Javs couldn't overcome.
The Pack now looks to bounce back in a Saturday doubleheader at Nolan Ryan Field with first pitch slated for 2 p.m., before wrapping up the series Sunday at 1 p.m.
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