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Rams earn doubleheader sweep over Dustdevils on Saturday; Conclude series Sunday


Brett David
LAREDO – The Angelo State baseball team swept a Saturday doubleheader from Texas A&M International after using a four-run seventh inning to secure a 6-3 win in the opener followed by a 10-1 thrashing in the day's final game at Jorge Haynes Field.

The Rams (4-0) outhit the Dustdevils (3-3) 23-10 in the two games and its pitching staff had 16 strikeouts and only eight walks. Dillon Becker (1-0) earned the win in the first game after having two strikeouts in 1.2 innings of work, while Jake Feckley (2-0) fanned four and didn't allow an earned run in 6.0 innings in the second game. Brett David led the Rams at the plate with four hits, including two doubles, while Tyler Coughenour and Hunter Choate had three hits each in the doubleheader.

"Feckley went out and gave us his typical start and offensively we did a great job early extending at-bats and scratching some runs against a very good pitcher," ASU head coach Kevin Brooks said. "I thought we did a great job of getting some big two-out hits to allow us to get out to an early lead. We showed a lot by coming from behind, down to our last at-bat, in our first game."

The win pulled Feckley even with Kenny Elkind and Joseph Key with 17 career wins for the program's all-time record.

ASU and the Dustdevils will conclude the three-game series with a single nine-inning game starting at noon on Sunday. Graylon Brown, a sophomore right-hander, is scheduled to mark his first start of the season for the Rams.  

GAME 1 BOX SCORE: ANGELO STATE 6, TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL 3
The Rams went into the final inning of the day's first game down a run, but exploded with four runs on four hits to earn the win. Cameron Massengill led the inning off by reaching on an error and advanced to third base on a Nehwon Norkeh single to center. Coughenour tied the game at three with a single to center that scored Massengill and a double steal moved Norkeh to third and Coughenour to second.

David Goggin gave the Rams the lead back with a double to right center field to scored Norkeh and Coughenour. The final run of the inning came with a two-out single by Brett David to left field to score Goggin. Becker, making his second appearance of the season, coaxed a flyout to first base for the first out of the inning before closing out the game with two strikeouts.

Norkeh went 2-for-4 with two runs scored for the Rams, while Choate went 2-for-3 and Christian Summers had a double. Trae Davis went 3.1 innings in his second start of the season, striking out two and allowing three hits and walking four. Jamie MacLean contributed 1.1 innings of relief with a strikeout and no runs surrendered. ASU outhit TAMIU 9-6 in the game and had five stolen bases.
 
GAME 2 BOX SCORE: ANGELO STATE 10, TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL 1
Feckley struck out four, walked only two and didn't allow an earned run in his second straight start to the season, while David went 3-for-5 and scored three runs as the Rams improved to 4-0 on the season with the nine-run win.

Norkeh scored three runs in the game, including scoring the first run in the first inning after leading off with a single to left field and scoring on an infield error. Choate had the RBI on the play and finished the game with three RBI. ASU led 1-0 through three innings and added another run in the fourth with a Reggie Rodriguez RBI single to left field and led 3-0 with Summers scoring on an RBI single to center field from Choate.

The Dustdevils scored their lone run in the fifth inning, but the Rams tacked on two more in the top of the sixth with David leading off the frame with a double to left field and scoring on a passed ball. The second run of the inning was delivered on a Coughenour double to left-center field and brought in Norkeh who reached base on a walk.

The flood gates were opened in the eighth when the Rams scored five runs on four hits. David once again led off the inning with a double and Summers and Choate each had RBI. Jason Zgardowski made his second appearance of the season, going 3.0 innings of relief of Feckley. Zgardowski struck out seven and didn't allow a run or a walk in the dominate performance.

Feckley has now thrown 13.0 innings and has 12 strikeouts, two walks and no earned runs to start his senior season.

The Rams had two stolen bases in the game and now have six steals through the first four games of the season. As a team, ASU is hitting .341 while its opponents are hitting .195 this season.
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