KINGSVILLE – Tarleton pounded out 10 runs on 15 hits, but a six-run seventh inning by the Javelinas spelled trouble for the Texans, who lost 12-10 in the final game of the series Sunday afternoon.
 
Kingsville scored one in each of the first two innings and three in the third while the Texans struck for one each in the second and third on a Javelina error and an RBI triple by Austin Call to send the game into the fourth inning with Kingsville leading 5-2.
 
Tarleton cut into the lead with two in the fourth when Dylan Lemons led off with a solo homer to left center and Jake Shelby drove in Hunter Seales with an RBI single to center to bring the game to 5-4. After Hunter Houston sat the Javelinas down in order in the bottom of the fourth, Tarleton took the lead on an RBI double by Call, a sacrifice fly from Jake Hasbrouck, and an RBI double from Luis Rivas to put Tarleton on top 7-5.
 
The Texans forced another goose egg in the bottom of the fifth before tacking on another run in the sixth on Francisco Rodriguez's fifth home run of the season for an 8-5 Texan lead.
 
The teams traded solo runs over the next inning to send the game into the bottom of the seventh with Tarleton on top 9-6. Kingsville scored six runs on four hits, three walks, and an error in the seventh to take a 12-9 lead. After a scoreless eighth, Tarleton tried to claw back with an RBI double from Hunter Seales but could get no closer.
 
The first three hitters in the Tarleton order – Blake Adams, Rodriguez, and Call – combined for six hits, each with two. Lemons and Seales had three hits each while Rivas also added a multi-hit performance with two base hits. Jake Shelby had one to round out the 15-hit attack.
 
Tarleton used six pitchers in the contest. Hunter Houston (2.1) and Chris Reed (0.2) were the only Texans to pitch scoreless outings.
 
The Texans will return home next weekend to host No. 3 Angelo State in a four-game Lone Star Conference series in Stephenville, beginning Friday at 3 p.m.