RAMS TROUNCE TABOR
February 7, 2007

Box Score

FORT WORTH, TX:  The Texas Wesleyan University baseball team (1-1) earned their first win of the young season by pounding out 17 hits in a 17-6 win over Tabor College (0-3) at LaGrave Field on Thursday.

Tabor made a game of it early on.  The Bluejays led 2-1 entering the bottom of the fourth.  However, the Rams batted around in that frame scoring five runs on six hits.  With two outs Texas Wesleyan got an RBI double from Mikey Valdez, an RBI double from Jerry Fisher, and RBI single from Ryan Jacobi, and an RBI double from Brandon Frazier in succession.

After trading runs in the fifth, Tabor clawed back into the game by scoring two runs in the sixth to bring the score to 7-5.

In the bottom of the sixth Brandon Frazier was hit by a pitch and later scored on an error.  That error kept the inning alive for Harrison Law who added a two-run double. 

The route was on in the seventh when Frazier ripped a bases clearing double to left-center bringing the score to 13-5.

After a Tabor run in the eighth, Ben Kliever capped a four-run bottom of the eighth with his first collegiate home run, a three-run game-ending shot.

Freshman Kody Thiebaud (1-0) picked up his first collegiate win with three innings of relief work.  Thiebaud allowed three runs, two earned, on three hits while striking out two.

Tabor’s Alfred Wilson (0-1) was tagged with the loss after allowing six runs on six hits in 3.2 innings of work.

Brandon Frazier had a record setting performance.  The senior outfielder from Burleson, TX, went 2-for-2 with two doubles, four RBI, and a run scored.  He was also hit three times, tying the school’s single game record record.  Frazier set a single-season school record by being hit 18 times last season.  He is also the school’s career record holder at 36.

Freshman Harrison Law went 2-for-3 with two RBI.  Blake Walker went 2-for-3 with two walks and three runs scored.  Zach Smith, Mikey Valdez, and Rayn Jacobi each added a pair of hits.

The win was a final tune-up before the 18th ranked Rams meet the 7th ranked Lubbock Christian University Chaparrals (7-0) in a three game series beginning on Friday.  Game one of that series is scheduled for a 3:00 p.m. first pitch at LaGrave Field.