Texas A&M
14-6
Illinois
4-6
Aggies Snap Losing Streak With 11-1 Win
Mar 13, 2006 | Baseball
March 13, 2006
John Infante went 4-for-5 with a double, a home run, two RBI and four runs scored on Monday to lead Texas A&M past Illinois, 11-1, in the UTSA Collegiate Baseball Classic at Nelson Wolff Stadium.
As a team, the Aggies pounded out a season-high 16 hits. In addition to Infante?™s multiple-hit game, Adam Hale, Austin Boggs, Jake Vasquez and Josh Stinson each had two hits. Boggs also drove in three runs.
With the win, the Aggies snapped a four-game losing streak and improved to 14-6 while the Illini dropped to 4-7.
?We scored early, we scored in the middle of the game, we scored late and Chance Corgan was as good as I?™ve seen him all year,? A&M head coach Rob Childress said. ?I thought we learned a lot about our team this weekend. I think we came together as a team this weekend although it took a couple of losses to do it. Sometimes those ?'Ls?™ in February and March stand for learning and not losses.?
Corgan (3-0) earned the win, allowing one run in six-complete innings. He struck out four and walked two.
The Aggies jumped on Illini starting pitcher Jake Toohey for two runs in the top of the first. Blake Stouffer was hit by a pitch to start the inning and with one out Infante?™s ground-rule double moved Stouffer to third. Boggs drove in Stouffer with a sacrifice fly to deep right and Infante scored on an RBI single to right by Vasquez.
A&M stretched its lead to 3-0 with an RBI single by Stouffer in the top of the second.
Illinois scored in the bottom of the fourth on a RBI groundout by Shawn Roof to cut the A&M lead to 3-1.
The Aggies answered in the top of the fifth with a pair of runs. Hale and Infante singled to lead off the inning and both runners moved up a station on a sacrifice bunt by Boggs. Hale scored on a sac fly by Vasquez and Infante later scored on a passed ball.
A two-out RBI single by Boggs in the sixth increased the A&M lead to 6-1. Infante blasted his first homer of the season in the eighth to score to of the four runs in the inning. Craig Stinson also delivered two RBI in the inning with a single to center. Boggs finished the scoring in the game with an RBI double in the ninth.
Kyle Thebeau, Jason Meyer and Jordan Chambless each pitched a scoreless inning.
Toohey (1-2) shouldered the loss, allowing five runs on eight hits in five-complete innings of work.
The next action for Texas A&M will be the Big 12 opener on Friday, March 17. First pitch against Missouri is set for 7 p.m. at Olsen Field.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Corgan, Chance (3-0)
L: Toohey (1-2)
Batting:
2B: Infante, John 1 ; Boggs, Austin 1 ; Hill, Ryan 1
HR: Infante, John 1
RBI: Stouffer, Blake 1 ; Infante, John 2 ; Boggs, Austin 3 ; Vasquez, Jake 2 ; Stinson, Craig 2
SH: Boggs, Austin 1
SF: Boggs, Austin 1 ; Vasquez, Jake 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Stouffer, Blake 1 ; Hale, Adam 2 ; Glover, Brandon 1 ; Infante, John 4 ; Boggs, Austin 1 ; Vasquez, Jake 1 ; Hill, Ryan 1
SB: Boggs, Austin 1 ; Vasquez, Jake 1
HBP: Stouffer, Blake 1 ; Vasquez, Jake 1 ; Stinson, Craig 1
PO: Stouffer, Blake 1
Batting:
2B: Huisinga 1 ; Snowden 1
RBI: Roof 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Snowden 1
CS: Huisinga 1 ; Roof 1
