ABILENE – Abilene Christian evened its series with UT Rio Grande Valley with an 8-6 win on Saturday.
The Wildcats jumped on the Vaqueros early with five runs in the bottom of the second.
Miller Ladusau had a two-run single, followed by consecutive RBI singles by
Benjamin Greer,
Gino D'Alessio and
Garrett Williams.
UTRGV got on the board in the top of the third but the Cats went up 7-1 in the third on a solo home run by
Aaron Staehely and an RBI single by D'Alessio.
The Vaqueros scored three in the seventh to narrow the ACU lead to 7-4 but
Maddox Miesse added an RBI single to give the Wildcats an 8-4 lead.
Iain Campa pitched four solid innings as the starter and
Chandler Freeman tossed two shutout innings in relief to get the win.
Brett Garcia picked up the four-out save.
The Wildcats had 13 hits, led by D'Alessio with three. Williams, Miesse and Staehley had two each and Ladusau, Greer,
Reese Borho and
Zandt Payne picked up one each.
The teams finish the series with a 1:05 p.m. contest on Sunday.
