{"id":295752,"date":"2026-05-16T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295752\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:42:08","slug":"bottone-murdoch-homer-in-game-two-at-texas-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295752\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottone, Murdoch Homer in Game Two at Texas State"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSAN MARCOS, Texas \u2013 The Marshall University Baseball team (23-30, 13-16 SBC) fell 12-9 in game two of its series against Texas State (33-22, 15-14 SBC) on Friday in San Marcos, Texas.
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\n“We fought a good fight tonight, but we’re unable to prevent their big hits.\u00a0Must win game tomorrow,” Herd Baseball Head Coach Greg Beals<\/a> said.
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\nEvan Bottone<\/a> hit his seventh homer of the season during his 27th multi-hit effort of the season to go with four RBI. Tyler Kamerer<\/a> registered a three-hit game with his 20th double of the season.
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\nJackson Halter<\/a>, AJ Havrilla<\/a> and Jackson Golden<\/a> also had two-hit contests with Ethan Murdoch<\/a> hitting his sixth home run of the season.
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\nManny Salas started the scoring for the Bobcats in the bottom of the first with a solo homer.
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\nHowever, MU answered in the top of the third. Halter brought home two runs with a single, Murdoch brought home one with a bases-loaded walk and Mason Onate<\/a> plated Havrilla with a sacrifice fly to make it 4-1.
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\nTexas State then saw Salas, Jaquae Stewart and Clayton Namken hit back-to-back-to-back homers in the bottom of the third to tie the game 4-4.
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\nThe Bobcats then tallied three more runs in the bottom of the fourth, but the Herd saw Murdoch hit a solo blast and Bottone launch a three-run homer to take an 8-7 lead.
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\nThe see-saw battle continued Chase Mora hitting a two-run longball in the bottom of the sixth to see the home side take a 9-8 advantage. However, a Bottone RBI single tied the game in the top of the seventh.
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\nTexas State dealt the final blow in the bottom of the seventh with Salas hitting his third homer of the game and a Namken two-run homer for the final three runs of the game.
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\nUP NEXT
\nThe Herd is set to close the regular season on Saturday in the series finale at Texas State on Saturday at 2 p.m. EST\/1 p.m. CST.
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—HerdZone.com—<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buy Tickets Here | Box Score (PDF) | Championship Fund \u00a0 \u00a0 SAN MARCOS, Texas \u2013 The Marshall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-295752","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\/295752","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=295752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}