Cowboys Fall In ASC

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Texas-Dallas (29-17)	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	5	7	2
Hardin-Simmons (31-14)	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	11	2
@ Richardson, Texas | UTD Baseball Field

Pitching
Win: Taylor Payne (2-0) - Texas-Dallas
Loss: James Simmons (7-3) - Hardin-Simmons
Save: Max Willard (4) - Texas-Dallas

Texas-Dallas Batting
2B: Garet Norton
3B: none
HR: Jason Diemer

Hardin-Simmons Batting
2B: Brian Weeks
3B: none
HR: none

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RICHARDSON, Texas — Last week Hardin-Simmons was the team that made the late comeback win, but this time the Cowboys had their heats broken by Texas-Dallas as the Comets scored three times in the ninth to rally for a 5-3 win in an elimination game in Richardson. 

The Cowboys are now 31-14 on the year and will nervously wait to see if they are one of the 15 at-large candidates selected for the NCAA Tournament when the field is announced a week from Monday. If they don't get in, it will end the careers of six Cowboys – Taylor Berlin, LeJuan Edwards, Joe Roberson, Trevor Stinger, Sam Walker, Brian Weeks.

UTD will have to beat Concordia twice on Sunday for its first ASC title. HSU advanced with a 9-3 win over McMurry earlier in the day. 

HSU scored first with a sacrifice fly by Joey Dearing in the second and added another run in the fifth on an RBI double by Weeks.

Cowboy starter Blake Sieck was cruising until the sixth. When Jacob Starnes led off with a single and Jason Diemer followed with a two-run home run to left field. 

HSU came right back with a run in the sixth to retake the lead on a RBI single by Dearing. Tyler Brunnemann came on for the Cowboys in the seventh inning and got out of the seventh and eighth. He allowed a leadoff hit to Jake Wyand.

 The Cowboys went to closer James Simmons and he had been so good all season. He got a strike out and then walked Garet Norton. Larry Bolding then tied the game with a single to left and he moved to second on a throw to the plate. HSU intentionally walked Starnes and Diemer hit a sacrifice fly to center. 

Then with two outs Jay Hiller dropped a popup that would have ended the inning but the Comets scored another run on the play as Hiller threw to the plate and gunned out Starnes.

Troy Tarrant led off the ninth with a single, but the Cowboys did not have the rally magic again as they stranded Tarrant, one of 14 baserunners the Cowboys stranded. 

Simmons (7-3) took the loss. Taylor Payne got the win in relief and Max Willard earned the save. Sieck went six and one-third innings for HSU. He allowed just five hits and struck out four.

Weeks, Berlin, Tarrant and Matthews each had two hits for the Cowboys. Diemer had two hits for the Comets and drove in three.  

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