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SAN MARCOS, Texas – The University of South Alabama baseball team allowed season highs in hits and runs in Saturday's 13-4 loss at Texas State at Bobcat Ballpark.

Texas State (21-27) recorded 19 hits and clinched the three-game non-conference series with the win, which marked South Alabama's fourth straight loss.

NEXT UP
South Alabama (25-17) will return to action Sunday when it faces Texas State in the series finale at 11 a.m. at Bobcat Ballpark.

GAME FACTS
- Texas State took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on a one-out RBI single to center field by Jose Gonzalez. Dalton Shuffield followed with an RBI double to right field to double the Bobcat lead at 2-0. An RBI groundout to second by Cole Coffey pushed the TXST lead to 3-0. Chase Evans followed with an RBI double to left-center field for a 4-0 advantage.
- Santi Montiel and Michael Sandle reached on consecutive singles to begin the top of the third. Ethan Wilson followed with an RBI double down the right field line to score Montiel and cut the Bobcat lead to 4-1. Kaleb DeLaTorre then delivered a two-run RBI single up the middle that plated Sandle and Wilson to cut the Texas State lead to 4-3. 
- Gonzalez led off the bottom of the third with a solo home run to center field for a 5-3 Texas State lead. Shuffield later scored on a wild pitch from Jaguar left-hander Tyler Lehrmann to double the Bobcat lead at 6-3. A one-out RBI single to right field by Peyton Lewis extended the TXST lead to 7-3. 
- USA loaded the bases in the top of the fourth on a leadoff walk by Richard Sorrenti, a one-out single by Montiel and two-out walk by Wilson. But Bobcat right-hander Zeke Wood induced an inning-ending lineout to center field off the bat of DeLaTorre to escape the jam.
- Texas State increased its lead to 8-3 in the bottom of the fourth on a two-out solo home run to left by Shuffield.
- The Bobcats pushed their lead to 9-3 in the bottom of the seventh on a two-out RBI infield single to second by John Wuthrich. Hollis followed with an RBI single up the middle for a 10-3 TXST lead. Justin Thompson then delivered an RBI single to center field for an 11-3 advantage. Gonzalez followed with an RBI single up the middle for a 12-3 TXST lead. Shuffield then reached on an RBI infield single to shortstop to extend the Bobcat lead to 13-3.  

NOTES
- DeLaTorre extended his on-base streak to seven games with a two-out walk in the top of the first inning.
- Sandle extended his hitting streak and on-base streak to a career-best 11 games with a single through the right side of the infield in the top of the third. 
Montiel tied his career high in hits, finishing 3-for4 with a double and one run scored.
- DeLaTorre had one hit and drove in two runs. 

QUOTES
Head Coach Mark Calvi
- On the loss:
"(Matt) Boswell has been great for us all year long. Today wasn't his day, obviously. (Tyler) Lehrmann came in and gave us an opportunity; he held it down and came into the game in a tough situation. I thought he did a heck of a job. We answered back, and I was proud of the way our guys fought. It just wasn't our day today. The last two days just have not been our days, but today has nothing to do with tomorrow. We have an opportunity in front of us. It's all about tomorrow's game. We have enough fresh guys on the mound to put everything we have into tomorrow's game and get it done. Our guys will fight. Everyone went 100 percent today, it was just one of those days where it got away from us early. Our guys played all nine innings, it just didn't go our way today."

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