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Overall: ASU leads 22-7                                                                                                                                                
In Stephenville: ASU leads 9-3                                                                                                                                       
Last season: Tarleton State swept 3-0 (18-6, 11-1, 11-5)                                                                                   
 
SAN ANGELO, Texas –  No. 8 Angelo State meets Tarleton State on the baseball field for the 30th time in the all-time series at 3 p.m. on Friday for the first of a four-game Lone Star Conference series at the Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex in Stephenville.
 
Angelo State (27-11, 11-5 LSC) is coming off a sweep of Eastern New Mexico last weekend, while the Texans (15-16, 7-7 LSC) split their series with Incarnate Word. The Rams are in a tie at the top of the LSC standings coming into the weekend and will be playing in their final regular season road trip of the season. Tarleton State is in seventh place in the conference standings and is playing their final four home games of the season.
 
The Rams and Texans will play a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday before concluding the series with a single game at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
 
Team Breakdowns
 
Angelo State Rams

The No. 8 Rams are led by Kevin Brooks who is in his eighth season and has guided the program to 292 wins coming into this weekend's series against Tarleton State. Brooks is 22-7 all-time against the Texans and has won nine of his 12 games in Stephenville.
 
Angelo State comes into this weekend with a team batting average of .300 and a staff earned run average of 3.89. The Rams are 8-6 this season in road games and 4-4 on LSC road trips. ASU has hit 77 doubles, 14 triples and 21 home runs through its first 38 games of the season. The Rams are hitting .302 in conference coming into Friday's game with eight batters hitting over .300.
 
Toby Semler leads ASU with a .350 batting average and 50 total hits. The senior from Mansfield has 11 doubles, a triple, home run, 24 runs batted in and is currently on a seven-game hitting streak. Andrew LaCombe is hitting .45 with two home runs and eight doubles, while Lee Neumann is hitting .333 with 11 doubles, five triples and four home runs.
 
Ryan Greer leads the Rams and the conference with 22 stolen bases, while Doug Snover stole two bases in Wednesday's non-conference loss to St. Mary's and has now stolen 17 bases. Greer is hitting .331, while Snover is hitting .315. Quaid McKinnon (.326), Brett David (.316) and Brett Parsons (.313) represent the other Rams hitting over .300.
 
Rick Reyna (4-4) will start Friday's game following earning a win last week against ENMU. Reyna has struck out 49 through 49.1 innings and will be making his 10th start of the season.
 
 
Tarleton State Texans
 
Bryan Conger is in his fourth year as the head coach of Tarleton State and has led the Texans to a 15-16 record to start this season. The Texans were the preseason pick to finish second in the conference, but are currently in seventh with 12 games to play.
 
Tarleton State is hitting .279 as a team and have a 4.74 pitching staff ERA prior to Angelo State's arrival to town. The team is 5-8 at home and has four regulars who are hitting above .300. Tarleton State has hit 49 doubles, 11 triples and 15 home runs. The pitching staff has struck out 199 batters in 250.2 innings.
 
Andrew Wolfe leads the Texans with a .341 batting average, while Ryan Small has contributed a team-leading 25 RBI. Small, a junior from Longview, is hitting .301 with eight doubles and five home runs. Noah Ringenberger is hitting .312 with eight doubles and 15 RBI, while Garrett Hardey has added 22 RBI in his senior season out of Weatherford. Hardey leads the Texans with 13 stolen bases, with the team at 51 after 76 attempts.
 
Pete Perez (5-2) leads the Texans with 51 strikeouts through 51.2 innings. The junior from California has only 11 walks and possesses a 2.61 ERA. Matt Buckmaster, a junior out of Paris Junior College, has a 4-1 through nine starts. The lefty has struck out 32 through 46.0 innings this season.