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Winner St. Mary's STMU 30-20
2
Lubbock Christian LCU 35-13
Winner
St. Mary's STMU
30-20
4
Final
2
Lubbock Christian LCU
35-13
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
St. Mary's STMU 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 8 0
Lubbock Christian LCU 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 8 2

W: Sepulveda, Oscar (4-3) L: Reagan Lucia (35-13)

Game Recap: Baseball | | RattlerAthletics.com

Baseball wins final game of 2019

By Heather Kennedy | St. Mary's Athletics Communications

LUBBOCK, Texas – In the final game of the season for the St. Mary's baseball team, the Rattlers defeated the #4 team in the nation in Lubbock Christian, 4-2.

Due to St. Edward's sweeping the series over Texas A&M International, the Blue & Gold will miss out on the final Heartland Conference Tournament, and StMU ends its season with a 30-20 overall record and a 10-11 mark in Heartland play.

Senior Oscar Sepulveda (San Antonio) pitched a gem of a game in his final collegiate outing. He gave up two runs on eight hits with no walks and a season-high nine strikeouts. It is the senior's second career complete game and both have come against Lubbock Christian almost three years apart (5/13/16). In that game, he posted his career-high in strikeouts with 11.

Senior Colton Parrish (La Vernia, Texas) went 3-for-4 at the plate with an RBI, while junior Johnny Hernandez (El Paso, Texas) was 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI. The other two RBIs came from senior Mario Vela (Mission, Texas), while he also scored a run, as did junior Andrew Perez (El Paso) and freshman Ryan McGowen (San Antonio).

HOW IT HAPPENED
With one out, McGowen singled to the shortstop, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on a single through the right side off the bat of Hernandez for the first run of the game.

The Chaps tied the game in the bottom of the seventh on a pair of doubles for the 1-1 tally but the Rattlers immediately answered.

Perez and Hernandez both singled back up the middle to begin the eighth and junior Patrick Fennell (El Paso) sacrifice bunted them over 90 feet. Junior Keaton Milford (New Braunfels, Texas) pinch hit and was intentionally walked to load the bases. Vela reached on a fielder's choice and moved to second on a throwing error by the second baseman, which allowed both Perez and Hernandez to score. Parrish followed with a single to left to plate Vela and give the Rattlers a 4-1 lead.

A leadoff homerun by Hill Alexander cut the lead in half, 4-2, but the Chaps got no closer and the Rattlers won the getaway game.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER NOTES
  • Andrew Perez reached base safely in 28 of the final 29 games of the 2019 season and had hits in 22 of those 28 games.
  • Oscar Sepulveda pitched just the second complete game of his career and recorded a season-high nine strikeouts in the win. Both of his complete games came against the Chaps almost exactly three years apart (5/13/16 – 5/4/19). In his first game against LCU, he posted a career-high 11 K's.
  • Sepulveda threw 118 pitches in the game and 81 of those were for strikes, a 2.2 strike-to-ball ratio for the game.
  • Keaton Milford was intentionally walked in the eighth inning for the team's third IBB of the season. It is the first since Feb. 24 when Milford was walked against West Texas A&M.
  • Colton Parrish finished his career with eight hits over his final six games, including a 3-for-4 day today. He ended the year with eight multi-hit games, including two three-hit days.
TEAM NOTES
  • 2019 marks the second-straight year the Rattlers have reached the 30-win plateau and the 28th season in Charlie Migl's career the Blue & Gold have won 30 or more games. Prior to Coach Migl's arrival, the team hit 30 or more wins twice.
  • The team has drawn at least one walk in 15 straight games, dating back to the Rogers State game on April 5.
  • The team ended the year with 79 stolen bases, good for fifth on the school's single-season chart. The 83.2 stolen base percentage is also good for fifth on the single season list (79-for-95).
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