{"id":287241,"date":"2026-05-10T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287241\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:18:14","slug":"red-wolves-home-finale-ends-in-favor-of-texas-state-9-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287241\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wolves\u2019 Home Finale Ends in Favor of Texas State, 9-15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/logo1.png\" alt=\"Arkansas-Pine Bluff\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Arkansas-Pine Bluff<\/p>\n<p>5\/12\/2026 | 3:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        95.3 The Ticket&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    May. 12 (Tue) \/ 3:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/logo1.png\" alt=\"Arkansas-Pine Bluff\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Arkansas-Pine Bluff&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>JONESBORO, Ark. (5\/10\/26) \u2013\u00a0Arkansas State (28-22, 11-16 SBC) worked from behind all day after Texas State (31-21, 13-14 SBC) stole an early lead and held the Red Wolves at arms&#8217; length through all nine Sunday, falling in the home finale 9-15 at Tomlinson Stadium-Slayton Family Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats totaled six runs in the opening two frames as A-State was unable to respond until the third. A pair of leadoff runners scored one on a fielder&#8217;s choice, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/astateredwolves.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/derek-martinez\/7956\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7956\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Martinez<\/a> RBI-single scored another for the 6-2 road advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Texas State popped for three home runs and sent five total runs across the plate in the fifth inning for an 11-2 difference, <a href=\"https:\/\/astateredwolves.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/evan-griffis\/7958\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7958\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Griffis<\/a> taking one back with an RBI-double in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n<p>A quiet sixth, Texas State added run number 12 on a solo shot in the next inning. The Red Wolves stacked hits in the home half of the seventh, <a href=\"https:\/\/astateredwolves.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/patrick-engskov\/7931\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7931\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Engskov<\/a> scoring on a Martinez hit after reach second with a double of his own. Griffis then notched two on his ninth homer of the season as the inning ended 12-6.<\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats broke open the eighth with another solo homer, but A-State found one of their own. Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/astateredwolves.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jackson-illingworth\/7961\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7961\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Illingworth<\/a> sent out a solo shot in his first at-bat of the season to lead off the bottom of the frame. An <a href=\"https:\/\/astateredwolves.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ashton-quiller\/7940\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7940\" target=\"_blank\">Ashton Quiller<\/a> walk set up <a href=\"https:\/\/astateredwolves.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/patrick-engskov\/7931\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7931\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Engskov<\/a> to score two more Red Wolf runs with a rocket out to left-center, his 10th\u00a0round-tripper of the season and career-high.<\/p>\n<p>TXST scored two more insurance runs in the ninth inning to set the final score at 9-15 for the Bobcats to take all three in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Win:\u00a0Jesus Tovar (7-2)<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>A-State hits the road to face in-state opponent Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Tuesday, May 12 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>SOCIAL MEDIA<\/p>\n<p>For the latest on the A-State baseball program, follow @AStateBaseball on Twitter\/X and @astatebaseball on Instagram, and Arkansas State Baseball on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Arkansas-Pine Bluff 5\/12\/2026 | 3:00 PM &#13; 95.3 The Ticket&#13; &#13; May.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-287241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}