KINGSVILLE – Blain Bagley served up 7.2 innings of scoreless work from the mound while Zach Freeman polished off his first career save in the series finale Saturday afternoon to deliver a split of the final doubleheader at Texas A&M-Kingsville.
  
An eight-run sixth inning broke open a one-run game as the Texans dropped their third game of the series to the Javelinas 11-3.
 
Tarleton jumped out to a two-run lead right off the bat with a two-out rally in the top of the first.
 
With the first two hitters of the game retired, Alec Humphreys and Hunter Seales hit back-to-back singles to bring up Landon Thompson – who answered with an RBI double down the left-field line for the first run of the game. Jake Hasbrouck followed up with an RBI single to plate Seales for a 2-0 Tarleton advantage.
 
Kingsville scored three in the second, however, to take a one-run lead that carried into the sixth inning. It was in the bottom of the sixth that Kingsville scored eight runs on nine hits to expand the lead to 11-2. Tarleton scored its final run on an RBI single from Humphreys in the seventh to bring the game to its final.
 
Tarleton did manage to muster 10 base hits, including two each from Forrest Perron, Humphreys, and Thompson. Landon Merka, Seales, Hasbrouck, and Zach Fleet rounded out the offense.
  
Blain Bagley dealt over seven and two-thirds inning of work while Zach Freeman came on to get the final four outs and deliver a shutout of the Javelinas in the series finale Saturday afternoon.
 
Bagley, a senior left-handed pitcher, was masterful over his 28 batters faced – retiring 23, including a career high seven via strikeout. He allowed just six base hits and walked one. With two outs in the eighth, he gave way to Freeman out of the pen as the senior right-hander earned his first save of the season.
 
Tarleton broke through on the run column with a two-run single (one RBI) from Forrest Perron in the top of the fifth. Perron laced a single through the left side to score Zach Fleet from third as well as Matt Olive, who came in to score on a throwing error for a 2-0 Tarleton lead. Perron was one of two Texans with a multi-hit game, going 2-for-5 in the leadoff spot with an RBI.
 
Zach Fleet, who went 3-for-3 at the plate on the afternoon, drove in Peter McMahon in the top of the ninth for an insurance run. McMahon pinch ran for Hasbrouck, who led off the inning with a double. Dylan Kuhn was the only other Texan to get a hit in the contest, stroking a single to center in the seventh inning.
 
The Texans will return to action in Stephenville next weekend when they host Angelo State for a four-game series beginning Friday at 3 p.m.