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ABILENE – The Tarleton Texan baseball season came to an end Monday evening after falling, 11-3, to Angelo State in the third round of the Lone Star Conference Baseball Tournament at Crutcher Scott Field in Abilene.
It is the second straight year that the Rams (33-25) have eliminated the Texans (26-25) in the tournament and brought the Tarleton baseball season to a close. ASU downed the Texans in the fourth round last season, 5-3.
The Texans gave up three runs in the fourth and another four runs in the top of the fifth inning that pushed ASU's lead to 10-2 at the time and it was more than enough as Tarleton would only plate one more runner home throughout the final five innings.
The Rams opened the game with back-to-back singles and then followed with a sacrifice fly from Dylan Petrich and a run-producing double from Keith Towne double to put ASU on top early, 2-0.
Chris Casazza plated home a run in the bottom of the inning with an infield single, but was then picked off to end the inning.
ASU added run in the third to go up 3-1 before the three-run outburst from the Rams in the top of the fourth made it a 6-1 game. Tarleton countered with a run in the bottom of the inning on Zane Hensley's single that scored Charlie Ulbricht to make it a 6-2 game.
A couple of fielding miscues followed by a pair of bases-loaded walks helped ASU to a 10-2 lead in the top of the fifth. Tarleton wouldn't score in the bottom half, but did manage to push across a run in the sixth on Nahtan Hille's RBI-ground out which scored Casazza on the play.
ASU then added its final run in the top of the eighth and Rams starter Jerris Springfield closed out the remainder of the Texans to give the No. 5-seeded Rams the 11-3 victory.
Springfield picks up just his second win of the season after going the whole way and allowing just the three runs on eight hits and striking out twobatters.
Jake Sowell (6-3) was handed the loss, allowing five runs on six hits in 3.2 innings of work. The Texans went to the bullpen four times on the night to get through the game.
Ulbricht, playing in his final game for the Texans, went 2-for-4 at the plate and ended his senior season hitting .323 – fifth highest on the team.
Junnior Dishmey finished the season leading the Texans in hitting with a .436 batting average, just .009 points shy of breaking the Tarleton single-season record.
Casazza hit .379 on the year and recorded a career-high 16 home runs and 59 runs batted in.
Hensley finished second on the team in batting with a .382 average.
The offense ended the season hitting .325 as a team.
Nathan Lewis had 28 pitching appearances where he recorded nine saves ended the season with a 1.81 earned run average – all new school records by the first-year Texan.
Sowell led the team with six wins on the year, while Ryan Salt led the team with 40 strikeouts.
The pitching staff finished the season with a 5.65 ERA.
Tarleton finished the season 26-25 overall, recording the first overall winning season by a Texan team since 2003.
