- Complete Game Notes
- Live Stats
- Live Audio (Saturday's DH Only)


ON DECK
• The #21/23 Tarleton Texan Baseball team (28-14-1, 17-7 LSC) will be vying for its first-ever Lone Star Conference title as it hosts the Cameron Aggies (12-29, 6-18 LSC) in the final series of the regular-season.
• The four-game set has been pushed back to a Saturday-Sunday doubleheader this weekend, with game one of the series to begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Apr. 27. The two teams will then closeout the series on Sunday with another doubleheader scheduled to begin at 1 p.m as well.
 
TEXANS ON THE AIR
• Saturday's doubleheader against the Aggies will be broadcast live on KTRL 90.5 FM in the Stephenville, and may also be heard via webstream by logging onto www.ktrl.fm. Casey Hogan will have the call alongside a student from the KTRL radio station.
 
ON THE LINE
• The Tarleton Texan baseball team needs one win this weekend to claim at least a share of the 2013 Lone Star Conference Baseball title. A pair of wins would give Tarleton the title outright and the Texans would clinch the first-ever LSC Championship in school history.
• Tarleton has won two LSC South Division crowns (1999, 2003) and tied for first place (2000) in the division as well, but the Texans have never claimed an outright LSC Championship.
 
RAMIREZ EARNS SECOND LSC WEEKLY HONOR
• For the second time this season, Miguel Ramirez was tabbed the LSC's Pitcher of the Week for his performance on the mound. The senior righty tossed a two hitter against ACU this past Saturday in Tarleton's 3-1 win.
• Ramirez took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before yielding his first hit to the first batter he faced. He stifled the ACU bats to just a batting average of .095 and struck out six on the day.
 
ABOUT THE TEXANS
• The Texans are coming off a 3-1 series win over ACU in Stephenville last weekend. Tarleton downed the Wildcats in the first three games of the series before dropping the finale.
• Ryan Small hit .533 with four doubles on the weekend and he also scored five runs while driving in five RBI. Colten Boothe and Nico Moran both homered in the series. Boothe's shot was his sixth of the year and he is now tied for the league lead with TAMUK's Taylor Taska and ASU's Lee Neumann.
• LSC Pitcher of the Week Miguel Ramirez improved to 7-1 on the season, while Matt Buckmaster pushed his record to 7-2. Pete Perez picked up a win for the Texans as well and is now 4-1 on the year.
• Tarleton hit .350 over the four-game set while the Texan pitching staff limited Wildcats hitters to just a clip of .179. The Texans tallied 12 doubles, a triple and two home runs in the series.
• The Texans continue to rank third in the league in hitting (.312), but the Tarleton pitching staff has pushed its way into leading the conference with a combined 3.66 earned run average.
• Small leads the conference with 17 doubles on the season and Boothe ranks third with 86 total bases.
 
ABOUT THE AGGIES
• The Aggies are coming off a 1-3 series loss to Angelo State this past weekend and are last in the conference with a league record of 6-18.
• Cameron is hitting just .264 as a team, which also ranks last in the league while the pitching staff ranks second to last with a combined ERA of 6.78.
• Nick Smith leads the team with a .344 batting average and also has a team-high nine doubles on the year. Kenny Acosta has a team-high four home runs, while Brad Blumer tops the squad with his 25 RBI.
• Drew Reidt is 3-3 on the season and he leads the team with a 3.32 ERA. Aaron Kleekamp has a team high 36 strikeouts and has Cameron's only two saves on the season.
 
SERIES NOTES
• The Texans lead the all-time series 31-16 and are bringing in a five-game win streak over the Aggies into the series. Tarleton swept the Aggies in Lawton, Okla. last season, while outscoring the home team 55-15. Tarleton defeated Cameron earlier in the year as well, 7-0 in Abilene.
• Last year's series was the first played between the two teams since 2009. Both series' in 2010 and 2011 were canceled due to inclement weather.
• The Aggies have not played in Stephenville since the 2009 season. The two teams split the series between sites, with Tarleton falling 0-2 in Lawton, and then coming back to split with CU in Stephenville the next day.
• Tarleton head coach Bryan Conger is 7-4 all-time when facing the Aggies.
 
POLE POSITION
• The Texans dropped moved into a tie at No. 23 in this week's Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Poll.
• The Texans have now been ranked five consecutive weeks inside CBN's national top-30 poll.
• Tarleton made its debut in the National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association Poll this week, coming in at No. 21.
• The Texans are also mentioned in the College Baseball Lineup.com Top-25 Poll, coming in at No. 23. It is Tarleton's first ranking in the online-dot-com poll this season.
 
THAT'S A RECORD
• The Texans set a new school record in hit by pitches on Saturday when Colten Boothe got plunked in the top of the sixth inning of game two that gave Tarleton 97 HBP on the season.
• Tarleton broke the old record of 96 HBP that was set back in 2009 during Conger's first season with the team.
• Noah Ringenberger leads the team and ranks seventh in the nation having gotten hit 19 times on the year.
• The national record for hit-by-pitch is 158 was recorded by Southern Arkansas, also during the 2009 season.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
• At the time of this release, the NCAA national statistics had not been updated.
 
UP NEXT
• The Texans have already punched its ticket to the LSC Baseball Championships, which will be a part of the first annual LSC Spring Festival, hosted by West Texas A&M in Canyon.
• Should the Texans win the LSC Championship outright, Tarleton would be the No. 1 seed in the tournament and would play the 7 p.m. game on Friday, May. 3.
• Stay tuned to TarletonSports.com following this weekend's series for more information on the Texans and the LSC Championships.