Rob Childress
Jace Vines
Nick Choruby
Texas A&M Baseball
Aggies dominate error-prone Stephen F. Austin in mid-week bout, 21-1
GAME #4: Texas A&M 21, Stephen F. Austin 1
RECORDS: Texas A&M 4-0, Stephen F. Austin 2-3
WP: Jace Vines (1-0)
LP: Austin Hagy (0-1)
BOX SCORE
When a top-5 baseball team plays a team from a small school in the middle of the week, you expect a bit of a beating. What you don't expect is a 21-run score-fest with 7 errors by the losing team.
That's exactly what happened at Olsen field on a frigid Tuesday night. Texas A&M, coming into the matchup at No. 4 in the national polls, dominated a hapless Stephen F. Austin team, 21-1, en route to its fourth win of the year.
Abigail Cook, TexAgs
Nick Banks was one of 13 Aggies to score a run on Tuesday night.
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The Aggies were all over the Lumberjacks from the jump, plating 4 runs in the first inning off of 4 hits, including a double by Joel Davis, and an SFA error.
That was just the beginning. The Aggies scored at least one run in each of the first seven innings.
It gets worse. In the first, fourth, fifth and sixth, Texas A&M pushed 4, 6, 3 and 5 runs, respectively, utilizing a combination of impressive hitting and SFA errors to pour it on the 'Jacks.
All in all, 13 Aggies got a hit off of Lumberjack pitching and Texas A&M hit .435 on the night as a team.
On the other side of the ball, freshman Jace Vines turned in a nice performance during his first start in an Aggie uniform. Going 5 innings and allowing only 3 hits and 1 earned run, Vines felt relaxed thanks to his teammates' offensive explosion.
"Our offense was on fire tonight," he said. "I mean, 20 hits and 21 runs -- it's really easy to pitch with (those hitters) on your team."
Vines turned the ball over to Andrew Vinson in the sixth. The senior pitched two innings of scoreless baseball before bowing out and letting Mitchell Kilkenny do the same. Coach Rob Childress couldn't have asked for better performances on the mound or at the plate.
"I thought we had 45 amazing at-bats tonight," he said. "We were 14-24, by my count, with runners in scoring position. We had 15 amazing two-strike at-bats. I can't say enough about the way we went about our business offensively tonight."
"They've done an amazing job," he went on to say of his pitchers. "We've got to get Turner Larkins in the game off of Stephen Kolek tomorrow. That's another couple of really good arms that have yet to pitch for us."
While the Aggies don't get to face Stephen F. Austin in tomorrow's matchup, they'll face a similar opponent in Prairie View A&M. They'll attempt to put on a similar show, and you can't ask for much more.
RECORDS: Texas A&M 4-0, Stephen F. Austin 2-3
WP: Jace Vines (1-0)
LP: Austin Hagy (0-1)
BOX SCORE
When a top-5 baseball team plays a team from a small school in the middle of the week, you expect a bit of a beating. What you don't expect is a 21-run score-fest with 7 errors by the losing team.
That's exactly what happened at Olsen field on a frigid Tuesday night. Texas A&M, coming into the matchup at No. 4 in the national polls, dominated a hapless Stephen F. Austin team, 21-1, en route to its fourth win of the year.
Abigail Cook, TexAgs
Nick Banks was one of 13 Aggies to score a run on Tuesday night.
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That was just the beginning. The Aggies scored at least one run in each of the first seven innings.
It gets worse. In the first, fourth, fifth and sixth, Texas A&M pushed 4, 6, 3 and 5 runs, respectively, utilizing a combination of impressive hitting and SFA errors to pour it on the 'Jacks.
All in all, 13 Aggies got a hit off of Lumberjack pitching and Texas A&M hit .435 on the night as a team.
On the other side of the ball, freshman Jace Vines turned in a nice performance during his first start in an Aggie uniform. Going 5 innings and allowing only 3 hits and 1 earned run, Vines felt relaxed thanks to his teammates' offensive explosion.
"Our offense was on fire tonight," he said. "I mean, 20 hits and 21 runs -- it's really easy to pitch with (those hitters) on your team."
Vines turned the ball over to Andrew Vinson in the sixth. The senior pitched two innings of scoreless baseball before bowing out and letting Mitchell Kilkenny do the same. Coach Rob Childress couldn't have asked for better performances on the mound or at the plate.
"I thought we had 45 amazing at-bats tonight," he said. "We were 14-24, by my count, with runners in scoring position. We had 15 amazing two-strike at-bats. I can't say enough about the way we went about our business offensively tonight."
"They've done an amazing job," he went on to say of his pitchers. "We've got to get Turner Larkins in the game off of Stephen Kolek tomorrow. That's another couple of really good arms that have yet to pitch for us."
While the Aggies don't get to face Stephen F. Austin in tomorrow's matchup, they'll face a similar opponent in Prairie View A&M. They'll attempt to put on a similar show, and you can't ask for much more.
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