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Feb. 25, 2009

 

Final Stats

Post Game Audio [mp3]:
Head Coach Childress
INF L. Anders

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Centenary overcame a three home run effort by the Texas A&M offense and scored three runs in the eighth inning to hand the top-ranked Aggies their first loss of the year, 8-4, Wednesday afternoon before 2,979 fans at Olsen Field.

A&M (5-1) trailed by three entering the sixth before a solo shot by Luke Anders and a two-run home run by Dylan Petrich one inning later would tie the game at four.

Centenary (1-1) would respond by scoring three in the eighth, tacking on an insurance run in the ninth and retiring the last eight Aggie batters in order to pick up the win.

Travis Leverson began the Centenary rally in the eighth with a one-out double to deep right field, and Michael Tompkins drove him home with a first-pitch single through the left side to give the Gents a 5-4 lead. The next batter, Steele Lewis, doubled deep over the head of Colligan in center field to push the lead to two and, three batters later, a bases-loaded fielder's choice off the bat of Tell Ross plated Lewis to make the score 7-4.

A Leverson RBI double in the eighth would push home the game's final run.

A&M designated hitter Nick Fleece drove home the first run of the afternoon, leading off the last of the second by blasting a 2-2 pitch deep over the fence in center for his second home run of the season.

Following an Aggie error to start the Centenary third, the Gents (1-1) would rattle off three straight base hits off A&M starter Scott Migl. The last, a two-run single off the bat of Steele Lewis, gave his team a 2-1 lead. An RBI groundout by the next batter, Cliff Shepard, would make the score 3-1.

Centenary would add another run in the fourth to push the lead to three before the Aggies began their comeback.

Petrich's two RBIs would lead the offense for A&M, which saw seven different players record a hit. For the Gents, Lewis had a game-high three RBIs and Leverson and Tompkins posted three hits apiece.

Shane Minks (1-1) would suffer the loss in relief, allowing three runs and four hits over one inning. Centenary's Chris LaLonde (1-0) earned the victory, giving up only the Petrich home run in two innings of work.

Migl went 4 2/3 and allowed seven hits and four runs (two earned). He fanned two and did not walk a batter.

Gent starter Joe Hagen threw six complete, giving up six hits, the two home runs and three walks while fanning one.

Texas A&M returns to action Friday at noon when the Aggies open play in the Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park against No. 5 UC Irvine. A&M will face No. 9 Rice on Saturday at 7 p.m. and will close the weekend against Houston on Sunday evening at 6 p.m. Friday's game will air locally on Sports Radio 1150 The Zone, with the final two games broadcast on WTAW-AM 1620. Ticket information can be found online at astros.com.

 

 

A&M COACH Rob Childress

"They did a great job. We had opportunities early in the game against their pitching and weren't able to get the big hit. We hit 17 or 18 balls on the screws today and they made all the plays, and some really good ones. We made some mistakes, but give them credit. They took it from us today. We've just got to learn from this and move on, there's not much time to worry about it. We travel tomorrow and get ready to go on Friday against Irvine."

(on the effort of starter Scott Migl and the pitching staff) "I didn't think his command was very good, but he fought and scratched and found a way to get us into the fifth inning. I thought he did a nice job. Out of all the guys, I thought he and Denny Clement did the best without question. The other guys were just okay, but they will be good this weekend and they will be guys we will lean on all year."

(on the upcoming weekend) "It's going to be better than any regional any of the teams there will play in. It'll be a great benchmark of where we are at this point in the season. For teams that go down there and do well, it'll be a great confidence builder. If they don't do well, they'll know what they have to do the rest of the season to get back to that point and that high level. It's going to be a lot of fun."