G2 BOX SCORE: Angelo State 6, McMurry 4

SAN ANGELO – The Angelo State baseball team improved to 11-4 in non-conference play with a doubleheader split on Tuesday against McMurry at Foster Field.

ASU (23-15) rebounded from a 3-2 loss to the War Hawks in the opener with a 6-4 win in the second game to wrap up a 13-game home stand. The Rams took the season-series against McM (16-21) three games to four after they had opened the season with a pair of wins in Abilene.

"We tried to have better approaches at the plate and tried to reduce our errors in the field," ASU senior Reggie Rodriguez said. "Those are the two things that cost us in the first game and we did a better job on both of them in the second game. We gave away too many runs and to many of our at-bats in the first game."

Jake Albert (2-1) earned the win for the Rams in his second start of the season where he struck out two, scattered three hits and allowed only one earned run in 4 1/3 innings of work. Mason Leavitt struck out one and allowed no runs and one hit in 1 2/3 innings of relief, while Christian Summers recorded his second save of the season by getting the final three outs of the game. Summers struck out the final two batters he faced after the War Hawks turned a 6-1 game into a 6-4 game with four hits and three runs in the top of the seventh before the final outs were recorded.

Rodriguez led the Rams at the plate, going 2-for-2 with a run-scoring triple in the sixth inning. Summers also added two hits on three plate appearances, while Blake Bass hit his first triple of his career in the fourth inning to cap a two-run inning for the Rams. The triple by Bass came after an error by the War Hawks, while Rodriguez's triple came on a 2-2 count and scored Chandler Patterson who was pinch running for Cameron Massengill who singled to right field to lead off the sixth.

Nehwon Norkeh drove in the first run of the game for the Rams with a one-out double to left-center field to score Rodriguez who had reached on a walk in the third inning. ASU would tack on two more runs in the fifth with Rodriguez leading off the inning with a single through the right-side of the infield and scoring on a fielder's choice off the bat of JP Zapata. Summers then drove in Norkeh with a single to right field to give the Rams a 3-1 lead.

The War Hawks took advantage of two ASU errors and limited the Rams to five hits in the first game to take the first game. Trevor Ragsdale (2-1) earned the win for McM after holding ASU to three hits in five innings of work, while Mitch Labbie secured his second save of the season with a six-out save.

Brett David led the Rams with a 2-for-2 game, while Rodriguez had a sixth-inning RBI on a groundout to cut the score to 3-2. The groundout scored Massengill who doubled to right field on an 0-2 count. The Rams scored their first run in the second inning with Hunter Choate scoring on a Blake Bass single that reached the right-field wall on an error by the McM right fielder.

Miles Gully (1-1) took the loss after allowing two runs in 3 1/3 innings of work in his first start at ASU. Gully struck out three and allowed five hits before Leavitt struck out two in the fourth inning and Erik Monson fanned two in a three-inning relief appearance.

Angelo State, which is now 11-7 in one-run games, completed its 13-game home stand with a 7-6 record and is now 14-7 at home this season. The Rams are 7-4 against the Heartland Conference after the Tuesday split with McM and are 5-1 all-time against the War Hawks.

ASU will now return to Lone Star Conference play with a three-game set against Tarleton State in Stephenville. The Rams took three of four from the Texans in the first series between the two teams earlier this season. The set begins at 6:30 p.m. on Friday at the Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex before the two teams play a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday.