SAN MARCOS, Texas – Georgia Southern started strong against Texas State with two runs in the second inning and no-hit pitching into the fourth. However, the Bobcats broke through with three runs in the fifth and kept going with a run in the sixth and two in the seventh to secure a 6-5 win in a battle of first place teams in the Sun Belt Conference and improve to a conference-leading 7-3.
  Granger Studdard knocked the first hit of the game for Texas State with a double in the fourth. The Bobcats couldn't get much else going in the inning, but busted through in the fifth. Freshman Derek Scheible knocked a single up the middle and Luke Sherley followed with one through the right side. With two men on, junior Cory Geisler knocked a double down the left line to pull the Bobcats within one, 3-2.
 
Geisler would score two batters later when David Paiz brought him home with a line drive to shallow center field for his team-leading 16^th RBI of the season, tying the game, 3-3, and completing a three-run inning for the Bobcats.
 
The Eagles would go ahead again in the sixth, but the Bobcats tied it with another run from Scheible. He reached base with a walk and moved to second on a single from Theodore Hoffman. Sherley knocked another single to plate Scheible and tie the game yet again.
 
In the seventh, the Bobcats would go up by two. Cedric Vallieres hit a double to left field and Paiz reached on an error. Studdard loaded the bases with a hit by pitch, and then Tanner Hill, a hometown product, laced a double down the left field line to score two and put the Bobcats up, 6-4.
 
The Bobcats would need the insurance run as Georgia Southern scored one in the eighth but could get nothing else against closer Blake Whitter, who earned his fifth save of the season. Lucas Humpal struck out nine batters and walked three in a seven-inning start.
 
Paiz and Sherley both finished the night with two hits and an RBI apiece. Hill had two RBI on his big hit while Geisler added two on his. Vallieres, Studdard, Scheible and Hoffman all tallied a hit in the game.
 
Texas State will look for the team's second win in the series behind Scott Grist on the mound at 3 p.m. Saturday and finish up with a 12 p.m. first pitch on Sunday.





























 

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