LAWTON, Okla. – Colby Fowler, Eli McLane, and Eddie Avila combined to shutout Cameron while the Texan offense scored eight runs over the final five innings, including five in the ninth, to beat the Aggies 8-0 Saturday afternoon.
 
Fowler got the starting nod and danced out of danger over the first two innings – getting a double play grounder in the first and a looking strikeout with two on in the second – before going on to retire 13 of the next 16 batters to keep Cameron off the board through 6.2 innings of work.
 
A hit by pitch and a walk with two away in the seventh forced the Texans to dip into the bullpen as Tarleton turned to Eli McLane, who got out of the jam unscathed with a ground ball right back to himself for the final out of the inning.
 
McLane worked a flawless eighth with a pair of strikeouts before turning things over to Eddie Avila for the ninth. Avila got a groundout and a game-ending double play to retire Cameron for the day.
 
The Tarleton offense put the Texans on the board with one in the fifth when Blake Adams singled home Hunter Seales with a one-out RBI into left. Adams wasn't done there as the junior from Longview tacked on two more in the seventh for a 3-0 Tarleton lead when he followed up a Jake Shelby walk with a two-run shot to left – his team-leading eighth home run of the season.
 
A hit by pitch in the ninth inning sparked a big inning for the Texans as Tarleton put up five insurance runs to pull away.
 
Hasbrouck led off the inning by taking a pitch for a free base before back-to-back singles from Stacy Heinatz and Jon Tauzin loaded the bases with no one out. Tarleton added one more on an error during the next at bat and then reloaded the bases with an intentional walk to Garret Kizer.
 
Shelby made the Aggies pay for walking Kizer as the junior shortstop unloaded the bases with a 3-RBI triple to right for a 7-0 Texan lead. He came in to score the final run of the game when Francisco Rodriguez beat out a two-out, infield single for an RBI.
 
Adams, Hasbrouck, and Shelby each had two base hits on the day for Tarleton while Rodriguez, Austin Call, Heinatz, Tauzin, Jose Reyes, and Kizer each had one.
 
Tarleton and Cameron will close out the series with a 1 p.m. showdown tomorrow afternoon in Lawton.