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SAN MARCOS – Texas State bounced back in a big way with a dominating 6-0 victory over Air Force on Sunday. Austen Williams led the effort with a career high eight strikeouts and just two hits allowed while Tanner Hill sent a three-run homer far out of the park to bust the game open.
 
Williams, in just his second start of his career and first since 2012, tallied four strikeouts in the first two innings of the game. He finished the day allowing just two hits with career highs in innings pitched (7.2) and strikeouts (eight).
 
His pitching counterparts, Ross Goebel and Hunter Lemke, helped him finish the two-hit shutout. Goebel induced a groundout on a nice barehanded play by freshman second baseman Taylor Bailey to end the top half of the eighth inning and Lemke followed with what Texas State fans have come to expect. He made short work of Air Force in the ninth with three quick groundouts.
 
Both teams played scoreless baseball through three innings, but the Bobcats jumped on the board in the fourth. David Paiz led off with a single to right field and Tyler Pearson followed with a double to the corner down the left line. With two runners in scoring position, the Bobcats were looking for the first score of the game. Freshman Granger Studdard picked up his first RBI of his collegiate career with a groundout to shortstop to score Paiz from third for the early 1-0 lead.
 
Texas State wouldn't need any more runs, but added insurance in the sixth. Neither team scored in the fifth, but the Bobcats opened it up in the bottom of the sixth with a five-run inning.
 
Big hitter Austin O'Neal flirted with the fence with a deep ball to left field. The ball fell just short for the second out of the inning but it foreshadowed what would come. Tanner Hill walked to the plate with Pearson and Studdard on base and sent a two-out bomb deep over left field that landed in Texas State's softball field.
 
The three-run roundtripper's momentum carried further down the lineup. Bailey followed with a hit up the middle and Matt Sanchez walked behind that. Designated hitter Cody Lovejoy sent a rocket down the left line for a double to score both baserunners. Trying to leg out a triple he was thrown out at third, but not before the runs scored to give Texas State a big 6-0 lead.
 
Both teams played two more scoreless innings split among Williams, Goebel and Lemke on the mound. Air Force had no answer for the arms or the offensive onslaught in the sixth.  
 
Texas State continues its season with its first road game of the season at Rice on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. It will be the team's only road game in the first 12 games of the season. The Bobcats will return home to host UC-Riverside this weekend.
 
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