HOUSTON – The Texas Southern University baseball team continued its mastery over its Southwestern Athletic Conference West division opponents Friday with a 7-4 win over visiting Arkansas–Pine Bluff.
At MacGregor Park in Houston, TSU's Seth Oliver struck out 13 batters and pitched a complete game to lead the Tigers (5-12) to their fifth win in six conference games.
Oliver, a 6-foot-4 junior right-hander, struck out at least one batter in every inning but the eighth as he held the Golden Lions to eight hits and two walks while 135 pitches en route to the victory. He was charged for three earned runs.
The only blemishes on Oliver's line were a two-run home run by Juan Pablo Soriano in the fifth, and a two-run error on a failed pickoff throw in the first inning. He improved to 3-1 with the win.
TSU's Jose Camacho led the offensive attack by going 3-for-4 with three RBIs. Camacho, who entered Friday's game with a .161 batting average, knocked a two-RBI double in the bottom of the fifth as part of a 5-run Tiger inning; he also added an RBI single in the sixth.
Pine Bluff's Thomas Sanchez took the loss for the Golden Lions (3-13, 2-2 SWAC). Sanchez gave up six earned runs and walked five batters while allowing seven hits.
The Tigers knocked Sanchez out of the game in the bottom of the fifth when the first five batters of the inning reached base. The inning started with Richard Alamo drawing a four-pitch walk and Kamren Dukes getting hit by a pitch on a 3-2 count.
Alamo and Dukes both scored when they and Camacho successfully executed a hit-and-run play, with Camacho knocking a double down the left-field line. Camacho himself came home when cleanup hitter Olajide Oloruntimilehin doubled to an almost identical location. Blake Hicks' double to right-center scored Oloruntimilehin to give the Tigers a 5-4 lead, and send Sanchez to the dugout for relief pitcher Kenny Hinton.
Hinton was able to get the first out of the inning, but he too gave up a double to TSU's Christian Sanchez, who came up as a pinch-hitter and scored Hicks from second.
Gerreck Jimenez had a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the second for the Tigers. Alamo knocked two base hits for TSU.
The Tigers and Golden Lions resume their series Saturday with a 2 p.m. game at MacGregor Park.
Courtesy: TSU Athletics
At MacGregor Park in Houston, TSU's Seth Oliver struck out 13 batters and pitched a complete game to lead the Tigers (5-12) to their fifth win in six conference games.
Oliver, a 6-foot-4 junior right-hander, struck out at least one batter in every inning but the eighth as he held the Golden Lions to eight hits and two walks while 135 pitches en route to the victory. He was charged for three earned runs.
The only blemishes on Oliver's line were a two-run home run by Juan Pablo Soriano in the fifth, and a two-run error on a failed pickoff throw in the first inning. He improved to 3-1 with the win.
TSU's Jose Camacho led the offensive attack by going 3-for-4 with three RBIs. Camacho, who entered Friday's game with a .161 batting average, knocked a two-RBI double in the bottom of the fifth as part of a 5-run Tiger inning; he also added an RBI single in the sixth.
Pine Bluff's Thomas Sanchez took the loss for the Golden Lions (3-13, 2-2 SWAC). Sanchez gave up six earned runs and walked five batters while allowing seven hits.
The Tigers knocked Sanchez out of the game in the bottom of the fifth when the first five batters of the inning reached base. The inning started with Richard Alamo drawing a four-pitch walk and Kamren Dukes getting hit by a pitch on a 3-2 count.
Alamo and Dukes both scored when they and Camacho successfully executed a hit-and-run play, with Camacho knocking a double down the left-field line. Camacho himself came home when cleanup hitter Olajide Oloruntimilehin doubled to an almost identical location. Blake Hicks' double to right-center scored Oloruntimilehin to give the Tigers a 5-4 lead, and send Sanchez to the dugout for relief pitcher Kenny Hinton.
Hinton was able to get the first out of the inning, but he too gave up a double to TSU's Christian Sanchez, who came up as a pinch-hitter and scored Hicks from second.
Gerreck Jimenez had a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the second for the Tigers. Alamo knocked two base hits for TSU.
The Tigers and Golden Lions resume their series Saturday with a 2 p.m. game at MacGregor Park.
Courtesy: TSU Athletics