CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's baseball program (14-20) dropped the series finale against UTRGV (18-13) 11-2 at Chapman Field Tuesday night.
The Islanders put their first run of the game on the board in the bottom of the fifth as freshman
Christian Smith-Johnson scored on aa single by senior
Leo Markotic. Smith-Johnson tripled in the at-bat prior to get in scoring position.
In the bottom of the ninth, senior
Max Puls plated the second run of the night for the blue and green with a solo home run out to center field. He collected two hits in the game with a walk early on in the performance. Smith-Johnson also earned two hits with Markotic getting one.
A multitude of pitchers for the Islanders saw action with senior
Hayden Thomas making the start on the bump, pitching through two innings. Sophomore
Zach Garcia entered to pitch an inning before redshirt junior
Jaime Ramirez Jr. joined the lineup. He pitched two innings until junior
Samuel Feltz entered for 1.2 innings of action.
Freshman
James Trimble made an appearance in the top of the seventh, pitching through the eighth before junior
James Burchett came in during the ninth.
Kody Gibbs, a freshman, closed out the game for the Islanders with two outs.
A&M-Corpus Christi returns to the diamond this Friday against New Orleans for a three-game series starting at 7 p.m.
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