Aggie Baseball Takes Down Texas in Middle Game to Claim Series

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News release from Texas A&M Athletics: 

No. 18 Texas A&M topped No. 2 Texas, 11-4, to secure the series in the middle game of the Cotton Holdings Lone Star Showdown Saturday afternoon from Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.

Six of the Aggies’ (27-7, 9-5) nine hits went for extra-bases. The offensive attack was led by Caden Sorrell, who went 3-for-5 at the plate with a two-run home run, a double and three RBI.

Aiden Sims tossed 4.2 innings as the starter, allowing three runs off four hits and striking out three batters. Gavin Lyons (5-0) entered in relief, tossing 4.1 innings of one-run ball. The righty punched out five batters to record his fifth win of the season and third in conference play.

The Longhorns (27-7, 9-5) scored the first run of the game in the opening frame to take an early 1-0 lead. The Maroon & White offense responded with an offensive outbreak in the bottom half, plating eight runs on six hits and three walks. Nico Partida started the surge with a double down the left field line that scored two. After a one hour, 38-minute weather delay, the visitors issued a walk to load the bases. Bear Harrison drove a two-run double to cushion the lead for Texas A&M. Boston Kellner drew a walk to create another bases-loaded opportunity, and Gavin Grahovac cleaned house with a three-run triple. Sorrell brought another run home with a double to right-center, putting the Aggies up, 8-1.

Kellner added a run with a deep sacrifice fly to left field in the bottom half of the third, sending Jorian Wilson across the plate.

Texas scratched a run across in the fifth inning to get within six. Sorrell added two runs of insurance in the sixth inning with a long ball to left-center field that traveled 418 feet and left the bat at 107 miles-per-hour.

The visitors could only muster one run in the eighth to cap the final score at 11-4 in Texas A&M’s favor.

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