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SAN ANGELO, Texas – he #18 Tarleton Texas (23-11-1, 12-4 LSC) will make its final road swing of the regular-season as the team heads to San Angelo to take on the Angelo State Rams (25-13, 9-7 LSC) in Lone Star Conference play.
• Tarleton and ASU will play four games this weekend with the series to get underway on Friday, Apr. 12 at 6 p.m. from Foster Field in San Angelo.
 
ABOUT THE TEXANS
• The Texans are coming off a 3-1 series win over Incarnate Word in Stephenville this past weekend. Tarleton took games one, three and four from the Cardinals, while UIW won game two.
• The Texans were scheduled to face #13/22 St. Mary's on Wednesday in Stephenville, but the game was canceled due to rainy weather in the area. No make up date has been announced.
• Tarleton hit .346 as a team this past weekend with four doubles, a triple and five home runs. The Texans outscored the Cardinals 32-20 over the four-game span.
• The Texans pitching staff yielded just a 4.50 earned run average to the UIW offense, while Tarleton's offensive power tattooed UIW's staff for a combined 8.33 ERA.
• Tarleton enters play this weekend batting .321 as a team with 61 doubles, 16 triples and 18 home runs. The team is third in the LSC in doubles, but lead the league in homers.
• The Texans have a combined 3.73 ERA, which ranks third in the LSC. Tarleton, West Texas A&M (3.59) and Texas A&M-Kingsville (3.22) are the only three teams in the conference with an ERA lower than 4.00.
• Tarleton is tied with ASU and TAMUK for the league-lead with nine saves. The Texan pitching staff has given up a league-low 132 runs on the year.
 
ABOUT THE RAMS
• ASU head coach Kevin Brooks is in his ninth season with the Rams baseball program. He brings in an overall record of 330-180 into this weekend's meeting with the Texans.
• ASU's scheduled pitching rotation will be Jake Albert, Jake Feckley, Mike Weatherly and Michael Lange.
• The Rams rank fifth in the LSC with a team batting average of .306. Christian Summers leads the team with a .361 average and a team-high 13 doubles on the season. Reggie Rodriguez leads the squad with three home runs on the year.
• ASU has a combined 4.89 ERA as a team, while Feckley leads the team with his 2.80 ERA. He and Weatherly lead the squad with 43 K's on the season.
 
SERIES NOTES
• The Rams lead the all-time series 26-10. The two teams split the regular-season series in Stephenville last season before the Texans went 1-2 against ASU in the LSC Championship tournament.
• The last time Tarleton played at Foster Field back on Mar. 15-16, 2011, the Texans swept the Rams 3-0. Tarleton won the first game 18-6 and then the swept the next day's doubleheader 11-1 and 11-5.
• Despite the Texans have just won 10 games against the Rams, eight of those victories have come under head coach Bryan Conger's watch as he goes into this weekend with an 8-12 mark against the Rams.
 
PAIR OF TEXANS TABBED LSC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
• Tarleton hardballers Colten Boothe and Miguel Ramirez were each named Lone Star Conference Players of the Week on Monday. Boothe earned LSC Hitter of the Week honors, while Ramirez was tabbed LSC Pitcher of the Week.
• Boothe went 6-for-11 and drew five walks against the Cardinals. The junior first baseman hit a pair of home runs to go along with a double, on his way to a 1.182 slugging percentage. He led the team with a .688 on-base percentage, scored four runs and had three runs batted in as well.
• Ramirez picked up his team leading fifth win of the season in a four-hit complete game as he allowed just one unearned run in contest, walked a pair of batters and fanned five. After giving up a leadoff single to UIW, Ramirez settled in and retired the next 11 batters on the way to recording his third complete game of the season. He shutdown the Cardinal lineup in order in five of his seven innings pitched.
 
TOUCH 'EM ALL
• The Texans now lead the LSC in home runs having gone deep 18 times this season. Tarleton hit five home runs over the weekend against Incarnate Word.
• Alvaro Moreno and Colten Boothe are tied for the team lead with three home runs on the year.
 
TARLETON IN THE NATIONAL POLLS
• The Texans moved up 10 spots in Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's Top-30 poll this week, coming in at No. 18.
• This marks the third consecutive week the Texans have been ranked in the CBN after debuting at No. 29 back on Mar. 24.
• Tarleton has been ranked inside the NCWBA or CBN for three consecutive seasons under head coach Bryan Conger. Tarleton had never been ranked in any national top-25 poll before Conger took over.
 
NATIONALLY SPEAKING
• The NCAA statistics page has not been update since Mar. 31, but at the time the Texans ranked first in the nation in having been hit-by-pitch.
• At the time, Texans batters had taken pitches to the body 78 times. Heading into this weekend, Tarleton has been hit 89 times.
 
UP NEXT
• The Texans will return to Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex for an eight-game home stand to close-out the regular-season.
• Tarleton will host Abilene Christian on Apr. 19-21. The Wildcats are just two games back of the Texans heading into this weekend's play.
• The Texans will close-out the regular-season against Cameron at home on Apr. 26-28.