HOUSTON, Texas - Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's baseball program (19-23, 7-7) fell to HCU (9-29, 6-8) in a narrow 7-6 duel at Husky Field Saturday afternoon.
"The way we've been playing, we thought when we had the big inning we were about to find a way to get it done," said head coach
Scott Malone. "Tip your hat to those guys as they finished it off."
Senior
Max Puls hit an RBI single in the top of the fifth to bring home
Christian Smith-Johnson to get the Islanders on the board.
A couple of innings later, A&M-Corpus Christi broke down the doors with a five-run inning to cut into the Huskies' lead. Senior
Brendan Ryan got the fire lit with a single to left field that drove in classmate
Cole Modgling and junior
Sebastian Trinidad, bringing the score to 7-3. Sophomore
Chance Reisdorph doubled in the next at-bat for an RBI as
Max Puls,a senior, trotted home, forcing a pitching change. Ryan scored on a wild pitch before junior
Tre Jones hit a sacrifice fly for Reisdorph to come home to bring the game within one.
Colin Purcell made his 10th start on the bump in his junior campaign, working his way through five innings, striking out one batter in the outing. Sophomore
Zach Garcia completed the game with three innings of work, striking out two and not allowing a run.
Puls led the team with two hits on the day, tying five other teammates with one run on the day. Ryan collected two RBIs with one hit and one run on the day in five plate appearances. Reisdorph earned the lone extra-base hit of the game for the blue and green.
A&M-Corpus Christi and the Huskies face off in the rubber match Sunday at 2 p.m. at Husky Field.
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