Abram Choate, SID
BROWNWOOD, Texas – The Howard Payne Yellow Jackets piled all their offense into one game and lost two of three games from the Cowboys of Hardin-Simmons University at Don Shepard Park this weekend.
In the single game on Friday, Hardin-Simmons scored four runs in the first inning, all coming in the unearned variety and all with two outs. Howard Payne helped the Cowboys out again in the sixth as the Cowboys scored five runs on only one hit. The Cowboys then scored two runs on a throwing error and added the fifth run on a wild pitch. The Cowboys led 10-0 at that point.
HPU broke up the shutout in the sixth on a Kasey Black solo home run. Jose Sierra had an RBI single in the seventh to make it 10-2. HSU responded with two runs in the eighth. Simpson had an RBI single and Lamar had a sacrifice fly. HPU scored two runs in the eighth and HSU had two in the ninth. HSU won 14-4.
Kurtis Lay was credited with the win for HSU, while HPU's Justin Davies got the loss.
Game one on Saturday, Howard Payne scored an unearned run in the first and the Cowboys came back with a run in the second to tie it. The Cowboys loaded the bases for the first of four times in the game, but only scored one run. HPU came back with a run in the second to make it 2-1 on a Cale Thompson RBI single to right, the Jackets inning was cut short as Chris Pucci was called out at the plate.
The score remained 2-1, until the fifth when the Cowboys finally broke through with a 3-RBI triple and an RBI giving the Cowboys a 5-2 lead. HSU then added one run in the sixth and seventh innings to win 7-2.
HSU's Rucker was givin the win and HPU's Doug Wren got tabbed with the loss.
Game two was all Howard Payne. The Jackets scored six runs in the first and had eight runs and nine hits off of Cowboy starter Brian Arnold in one-plus inning. The Jackets pounded out 22 hits in the game, 16 of which were perfectly placed singles. HPU won 18-8. Doug Wren and Andrew Atwell had five hits each and Atwell had seven RBIs for HPU.
Howard Payne fell to 17-19 overall and 10-8 in ASC West action. HSU is now 22-14 on the year and 12-6 in league play
