MOBILE, Ala. – Junior Chase Mora hit his 28th career home run in Thursday night's series opener at South Alabama to move into a tie for fifth in program history. Texas State would drop the contest 15-5 in eight innings at Stanky Field.

With the result, the Bobcats drop to 18-19 overall and 7-9 in the Sun Belt Conference while the Jaguars are now 16-20 on the season and 6-10 in league play.

Mora finished the game 2-for-5 at the plate. He matched Tanner Hill and John Wuthrich's career totals and is now eight shy of matching the program record.

Also finishing with two base knocks on the evening were Coy DeFury and Dawson Park. Adding a double and two RBI was Ryne Farber.

On the mound, Alex Valentin (2-2) went just 2.2 innings and surrendered nine runs on six hits and four walks to take the loss. Jaxon Shineflew (3-2) tossed 5.1 innings with six strikeouts and gave up three runs to pick up the win. John Gillis recorded the final four outs to earn his second save of the season.

Dylan Kerbow set career highs with 2.1 innings of work and four strikeouts while not allowing a run.

Mora started the scoring by sending a 0-1 offering 389 feet to right field for a solo homer in the first.

It would be all South Alabama for the next three innings as the hosts scored nine runs. Both teams would put up zeros on the scoreboard in the fourth and fifth frames.

A walk drawn by Zachary Gingrich was followed by singles off the bats of DeFury and Park to load the bases. Farber would then send a 1-2 pitch down the right field line for a two RBI double to make it a six-run contest.

TXST would get two more runs in the seventh. The first was on a single through the left side by Eaton while the second came home on a throwing error courtesy of the third baseman to cut the deficit to 9-5.

The Jaguars answered back with four run sin the bottom of the frame. A two-run by John Smith in the eighth ended the game via run-rule.

Game two of the series is slated for a 6:30 p.m. first pitch on Friday.

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