Baseball falls twice on Sunday to Bearkats

Story Headlines
- The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi baseball team fell twice to Sam Houston State in a Sunday doubleheader at Don Sanders Baseball Stadium in Huntsville, Texas.
- The Bearkats won the first game, 11-5, and took the second game, 12-2.
- The Islanders are now 29-22 overall and 13-14 in Southland play. Sam Houston State improves to 26-19 overall and 16-8 in league action.

Game One Key Statistics
- The Islanders scored once in the second, once in the fifth, twice in the eighth and once in the ninth. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi had five runs on 12 hits with one error.
- Enrique Sanchez Jr. was 3-for-5. He had a double and scored a run.
- Itchy Burts drove in three runs, going 3-for-5 with a double and a run scored.
- Cole Fluta was 2-for-4 with a stolen base.
- Luke Marbach went 1-for-5 with a run scored.
- Nick Anderson was 1-for-5 with a double and a run scored.
- Mike Williams went 1-for-4 with an RBI and a triple.
- Drake Osborn went 1-for-3 in the first game.
- Steven Rivera-Chijin drew a walk and scored a run.
- Marbach hit a leadoff single in the second and advanced to third in a pair of wild pitches. Williams grounded out to second allowing Marbach to score the game's first run.
- Rivera-Chijin reached first on a fielder's choice in the fifth came around to score on a Burts single to left.
- Sanchez Jr. doubled to lead off the eighth and scored on a Burts double to right. After a flyout, Thomas Jeffries IV grounded out to second, allowing Burts to score from third.
- In the ninth, Anderson hit a two-out double to left. Sanchez Jr.'s single to right put runners on the corners and Burts drove in Anderson with a double to right.

Game Two Key Statistics
- A&M-Corpus Christi scored two runs on six hits with no errors. The Islanders scored once in the third and once in the fifth.
- Anderson was 1-for-3 with a pair of runs scored. He was hit by a pitch and also stole a base.
- Burts was 1-for-3 with a stolen base and a sacrifice bunt.
- Sanchez Jr. was 2-for-3 with a double and a pair of RBIs.
- Trevor Beard was 1-for-3 in the second game.
- Osborn went 1-for-3.
- In the third inning, Anderson led off by getting hit by a pitch. After Burts singled to left, Anderson and Burts both moved up on a double steal. Sanchez Jr. grounded out but it allowed Anderson to score to make it 1-0 Islanders.
- With one down in the fifth, Anderson hit an infield to the pitcher and went to second on a Burts sacrifice bunt. A balk allowed Anderson to take third and he came around to score the Islanders' second run on a Sanchez Jr. to left.

Up Next
- The Islanders will conclude the 2019 Southland schedule starting on Friday May 10 with a three-game series against McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La.

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