PVAMU Baseball Wins Home Opener Over Stephen F. Austin

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas -- The Prairie View A&M baseball team won its home opener over Stephen F. Austin 8-2 Tuesday at Tankersley Field.

Trailing 1-0 entering the bottom of the fifth inning, the Panthers scored all eight runs to break the game open. Andrew Garcia singled to center to lead off the inning, followed by Avery Williams' bunt single between first and second base. Garcia then scored on a throwing error to a bunt attempt by Tyler Gordon to tie the game at 1-1. Corbin Jamison's two-run single scored A. Williams and Gordon to put PVAMU ahead for good at 3-1.

Jalyn Baker reached on a bunt single before Daniel Lingua walked to load the bases. Ezekiel Bear's double to left center cleared the bases to give the Panthers a 6-1 lead. Calvin Rucker then doubled to left, scoring Bear. Garcia came up again and singled up the middle, moving Rucker to third, before Avery Williams' groundout scored Rucker with the final Prairie View A&M run.

Garcia went 3-for-4 and Baker went 2-for-4 in the in the 11-hit attack for PVAMU. Kaelon Woods (1-0) earned the win in his first career start, throwing six innings allowing just four hits and one unearned run, walking six but striking out four. Tyler Laux pitched the final three innings to earn the save.

Prairie View A&M returns to action Wednesday at Houston at 6:30 p.m. before hosting Southern Friday at 3 p.m. in the first of a three-game Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division series at Tankersley Field.

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