The Angelo State baseball staff entered the NCAA Division II Event because the No. 6 seed in a six-team regional. Nevertheless, within the postseason, the Rams are taking part in to their pedigree.
They received the Division II nationwide championship final 12 months and are returning to the D-II Faculty World Sequence for the fourth 12 months in a row.
Jacob Guerrero launched a grand slam within the second inning and Christian Garnette hit a three-run homer within the third to ship No. 17 Angelo State on a 17-4 street sweep of No. 4 Lubbock Christian College baseball in Saturday's decider. the third recreation of the best-of-three South Central Tremendous Regional at Hays Subject.
“We had been fairly stunned to be the sixth (seed),” Rams coach Kevin Brooks mentioned. “I believed it was ridiculous. I believe it was nice. Thanks for doing it. I'm positive we're going to have the toughest street once more till Cary (North Carolina), however that's okay.”
Rams pitcher Alezeah Gutierrez (9-4) struck out within the eighth. The junior left-hander from El Paso Montwood allowed 4 hits in 7 2/3 innings whereas putting out six.
“He did an impressive job,” LCU coach Nathan Blackwood mentioned. “To close us down at Hays Subject with the wind blowing like that, credit score him.
The D-II Faculty World Sequence is performed June 1-8 on the USA Baseball Nationwide Coaching Advanced in Cary, North Carolina. There, the Rams (41-19) completed the season 56-9 final 12 months.
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LCU (45-16) final reached the nationwide match last in 2011, when the Chaps reached the NAIA World Sequence for the third straight 12 months.
“All of us clearly wished to go actually dangerous,” mentioned LCU shortstop Carson Ogilvie, the South Central Area participant of the 12 months. “We’ve a extremely tight group so it's laborious to appreciate it's over. All of us actually wished it and naturally we gave it our all, however they performed higher.”
The Rams ended the 12 months of the Chaparrals for the third time prior to now 5 full seasons, knocking off LCU within the 2019 regional match and the 2021 Lone Star Convention match. successful streak going into the weekend, the Chaps failed to interrupt the hex.
“Clearly we're disillusioned,” Blackwood mentioned. “We wished to go to Cary. I wished this group to go to Cary, however what this group did — the furthest we went on the D-II degree, paving the best way — we glance again at this group and at all times keep in mind how particular this crew was.”
Angelo State received the sequence opener 7-6 on Friday and shook off a 25-12 loss in Sport 2 on Saturday. It was the second most runs the Rams had ever allowed in a recreation.
On a day with 26 mph winds gusting to 39 and blowing proper out, the Chaps had 26 hits, 17 for further bases. Ryan Ball went 5-for-6 with two dwelling runs and 6 runs batted in and Brevin McCool went 5-for-7 with a school-record 4 doubles.
Jarred Gibson, Nate Van Maanen and Shea Bowen every homered and Carson Ogilvie and Van Maanen went 4-for-6.
None of this foreshadowed recreation three. After Angelo State turned a bases-loaded/no-out alternative within the second right into a bases-loaded/two-out, Guerrero singled over the wall in left-center off Chaps starter Andrew Duran (6-1). An inning later towards Coleson Abel, Garnette crushed a one-out blast to depart for a 7-0 lead.
The Rams led 12-0 earlier than the Chaps rallied to inside 4 within the eighth, capped by Gibson's two-run homer.
In a March 23 common season recreation at San Angelo, LCU received 10-5 and tagged Gutierrez for 10 runs on 11 hits.
“He impressed me at present,” Blackwood mentioned. “I believed we hit him fairly effectively final time. I actually felt like we received the primary recreation (Saturday) and we went towards him, I actually thought we had been going to win, so credit score to him. He did a extremely good job.” feed our aggression a little bit bit and hold the ball… You possibly can see that after he left the sport we had been again to regular.”
