SAN MARCOS, Texas – The 2025 baseball season starts this weekend for Texas State with a three-game series against Binghamton at Bobcat Ballpark. It is the 15th consecutive year that the Bobcats will open a season at home.
 
Friday's season opener begins at 6 p.m. followed by a 2:30 p.m. contest on Saturday. The series concludes Sunday with an 11 a.m. first pitch.
 
All three games will be streamed on ESPN+ with Bill Culhane and Will Hollis on the call.
 
PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS
Friday: TXST RHP Jackson Teer vs. BU RHP Ryan Bates
Saturday: TXST RHP Sam Hall vs. BU RHP Brady Bouchard
Sunday: TXST RHP Austin Eaton vs. BU RHP Colin Rhein
 
ABOUT TEXAS STATE
Texas State is looking to rebound after going 27-29 last season. The team did set a program record with an average attendance of 1,666. With 26 newcomers, the Bobcats were picked to finish eight in the Sun Belt Conference's preseason poll.
 
Chase Mora is among three starters to return. Last season saw him hit six home runs and posted 49 RBI. The junior enters the season needing two more homers to crack the program's top 10 list. Ryne Farber played in 40 games and made 38 starts between centerfield and designated hitter. This season will see the sophomore move into the infield after batting a team-high .340 with eight steals and 25 RBI. Behind the plate, Rashawn Galloway hit .279 with two round trippers and 19 RBI over 37 games including 29 starts.
 
Slated to start on opening day on Friday is Jackson Teer, a transfer from Division III school Trinity in San Antonio. He was a two-time first team All-American after going 8-1 with a 1.05 ERA and striking out 112 in 77.1 innings. Sam Hall gets the start on Saturday after a 1-5 campaign with one save and 36 punchouts over 46 frames. Rounding out the weekend rotation is Austin Eaton, who threw 56.1 innings over 14 games, including 10 starts. The right-hander went 4-4 with 43 strikeouts and had a 5.27 ERA.
 
In the bullpen, two key hurlers are back in Taylor Seay and Matthew Tippie. Seay appeared in 25 games where he struck out 17 in 19.1 innings. Tippie went 2-1 with one save and 27 strikeouts over 21.1 innings in 18 contests. Highly regarded Carson Laws was picked as the 83 best relief pitcher in the nation on D1Baseball's preseason list after transferring in from Midland College.
 
ABOUT BINGHAMTON
Binghamton compiled a 21-29 record last season including a 10-14 record in the America East Conference. The Bearkats were picked to finish second in the league in the preseason poll behind Bryant. They will play their first 12 games on the road before their home opener against St. Bonaventure on Mar. 11. Other non-conference road series sees Binghamton travel to East Tennessee State, Elon and Missouri.
 
Getting selected to the all-conference preseason squad were Devin Bad, Zach Rogacki and Evin Sullivan. Bade, a third baseman, led the team with a .326 average and was second in doubles (11), triples (2), home runs (6), runs (31) and RBI (34). Behind the plate, Rogacki hit .310 in 24 games with 13 RBI, five doubles and two homers. Sullivan returns after batting .316 with a team leading 12 doubles. He also drove in and scored 22 runs.
 
Friday night will see Ryan Bates get the ball. Last season, he went 1-1 with a 5.88 ERA in 33.2 innings over seven starts before suffering a season-ending injury. The right-hander also struck out 27 and held opponents to a .212 average but issued 21 walks. Freshman Brady Bouchard gets the start on Saturday and rounding out the rotation is Colin Rhein, who struck out 40 in 58 innings last year at Stony Brook.
 
Out of the bullpen, Jackson Mitchell was chosen to the All-America East preseason team after going 1-0 with one save, a 5.40 ERA and 30 strikeouts over 21.2 innings in 14 relief appearances in 2024. Other relievers that return are Drew McAliney (1-2, 1 SV, 7.42 ERA), Caden Rothbaum (3.86 ERA, 4.2 IP) and Chris Sleeper (2-1, 1 SV, 4.15 ERA).
 
SERIES VS. BEARKATS
This weekend will be the first-ever meeting between Texas State and Binghamton. It will be the seventh consecutive year that the Bobcats will face an opponent for the first time to open a season. The only previous time that TXST faced a team from the America East was Stony Brook (moved to the CAA in 2022) in 2020 in San Marcos.
 
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