Final Stats

THE RUNDOWN
SAN MARCOS, Texas - Baylor (12-17) lost on a walk-off home run in the 10th inning to Texas State (13-15-1) Thursday evening at Bobcat Ballpark.

After rallying to take an 8-6 lead with a five-run eighth inning, Baylor was unable to hang on as the Bobcats played long ball to earn the win. In the eighth off Joe Kirkland, Granger Studdard launched a solo homer to cut the BU lead to one. To lead off the ninth, Derek Scheible hit a solo homer of his own to tie the game. Then in the 10th off Spicer, Studdard struck again with a walk-off blast.

The Bears grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second after a Matt Menard RBI single, but Texas State answered in the bottom half with two runs on three walks, one hit and a sacrifice fly. BU tied the game in the fifth with a Logan Brown RBI single.

In the sixth, Texas State rallied to take the lead with three runs on three singles and two walks.

BU cut into the lead with a West Tunnell RBI infield single in the seventh. However, the Bobcats countered with a two-out triple and single to keep a three-run lead.

In Baylor's big eighth, Aaron Dodson started it with an infield single. An out later, he scored on Kameron Esthay's RBI double and Matt Menard and Levi Gilcrease followed with RBI singles to tie the game. Following a Steven McLean hit-and-run single, Gilcrease scored on a passed ball. With two outs, Hayden Ross delivered an insurance run with an RBI single but it went for naught after the Bobcats went to the power game.

Bobcats reliever Joe Powell (2-3) earned the win after throwing 2.1 scoreless innings while giving up just one hit. Spicer (1-1) took the loss, allowing two runs on four hits with two strikeouts in one-plus innings. BU starter Daniel Castano took a no-decision, surrendering four runs on four hits and six walks with five strikeouts in 5.1 innings.

NOTES
*Baylor leads the all-time series against Texas State 49-21 overall, 12-7 in San Marcos, 36-14 in Waco, 35-16 under Steve Smith, and the Bears have won five of the last eight meetings.

*Baylor is 147-59 against current members of the Sun Belt Conference and 1-1 this year after topping UT Arlington on the road March 24th.

*Baylor 225-154 in April under Smith and 0-1 this year.

*Baylor is 2-8 in road games and 2-11 in games away from Baylor Ballpark this season - the two wins came March 17th at Sam Houston State and March 24th at UT Arlington.

*Levi Gilcrease had his fourth multi-hit game and first career RBI.

*Duncan Wendel has reached base in his last 15 games and extended his hitting streak to 11 games - both are career high streaks.

*Kameron Esthay has a hit in his last five games with his fifth multi-hit game.

*West Tunnell has a hit in his last three games.

*Logan Brown posted his team-high 10th multi-hit game and second three-hit game.

*Aaron Dodson notched his team-high 10th multi-hit game.

*Matt Menard tallied his fifth multi-hit game and second multi-RBI effort.

*Steven McLean had his third multi-hit game.

STAT OF THE GAME
3 - The amount of home runs hit by Texas State in consecutive innings to win.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"It's a tough one to lose because we competed well. But honestly, they competed every bit as well at the plate. The park plays small and they got some balls to hit. Hat's off to their guys for finding a way to win the game." - Baylor head coach Steve Smith

WHAT'S NEXT
The teams finish the last two games of the series in Waco, Texas, with a 6:30 p.m. CT first pitch Friday and 3 p.m. start Saturday. The pitching matchup for Friday features BU RHP Drew Tolson (1-5, 4.44 ERA) vs. TSU RHP Scott Grist (1-2, 3.33 ERA) and Saturday will have TSU RHP Jeremy Hallonquist (2-0, 2.81 ERA) vs. BU's pitcher that has yet to be announced.