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SAN ANTONIO – The Tarleton Texan baseball team scored five runs over the final two innings against Incarnate Word, but in the end it wasn't enough as the Cardinals downed the Texans 12-8 at Sullivan Field in San Antonio on Tuesday.
The Texans fell to 15-19 with the road loss, while UIW – ranked No. 30 according to the Ping!Baseball.com poll - improved to 23-8.
Tarleton opened the game with Mark Jeffery scoring on Andrew Kapples run batted in-single to give the Texans an early 1-0 lead, but the Cardinals countered with a five-run bottom of the first to take a four-run advantage.
The Texans put another run on the board in the top of third on a Taylor James RBI-triple that brought home Chris Casazza to score. UIW again countered with a run of their own on a sacrifice fly from Tyler Hicks.
Tarleton added another run in the fifth on Andrew Wolfe's second home run of the year. UIW then drove in three more runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 9-3 advantage over the visiting Texans.
Tarleton gave up two more runs in the sixth inning and the game was at 11-3 before the Texans scored four of its final five runs in the top of the eighth inning. With two outs, Junnior DIshmey drove in two runs with his single to center field and Wolfe followed with an RBI-single to center as well. Dishmey then later came home to score on a pass ball making it an 11-7 game.
The Cardinals added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth inning, but it would be more than enough as the Texans could only get one more run on the board in the top of the ninth when consecutive doubles from Kapple and Nathan Hille allowed Kapple to score later.
Landon McCall (0-2), making just his second appearance and first start of the season, was hit with the loss as he allowed five runs on seven hits in two full innings of work. Zane Hensley, Charlie Ulbricht and Brandyn Greer each worked two full innings each in relief.
UIW's Elroy Urbina (2-1) picked up the win for the Cardinals after coming into the game in the sixth and throwing two scoreless innings of relief. Alfredo Caballero (S, 5) came in and worked the final 2.1 innings to notch his fifth save of the season.
The Texans finished the game scoring the eight runs on nine hits as Dishmey, Wolfe, Kapple and Hille each had multiple hit games. Dishmey extended his hit streak to seven games, but Casazza went hitless on the evening and his hit streak was halted at nine games.
The Texans will return to action this weekend as the team hits the road for a Lone Star Conference series with Central Oklahoma. Friday's doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. at Broncho Field in Edmond, Okla.
