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LCU sweeps West Texas A&M with two extra-inning victories

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Carson Ogilvie doubled and scored in the bottom of the 12th inning Saturday as Lubbock Christian University beat West Texas A&M 3-2 at Hays Field and swept a Lone Star Conference baseball tournament first-round series in two games.

LCU starting pitcher Ryan Markwardt went nine innings, allowing two runs on five hits. Winning pitcher Chris Shull (4-1) delivered three scoreless innings in relief.

Ogilvie started the winning rally with a leadoff double. Ogilvie tagged and went to third on Brevin McCool's fly ball, then came home when the throw from right field skipped past third baseman Adam Becker.

LCU (33-19) advances to the second week of the conference tournament. The first-round series winners will play a four-team, double-elimination bracket at the home of the highest remaining seed.

West Texas A&M (30-22) lost all six games it played against LCU this season.

Chaps took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on an RBI single by Caden Hensley and a run-scoring double by Ogilvie. The Buffaloes tied with run-scoring singles by Will Fuenning in the sixth inning and Mike Manetta in the seventh.

Lubbock Christian University shortstop Carson Ogilvie (2) blasts a game-winning home run Friday night that lifted the Chaparrals to a 13-12 victory in 10 innings against West Texas A&M. The game was the first in a best-of-three series, and LCU swept with a 3-2 victory in 12 innings Saturday.
Lubbock Christian University shortstop Carson Ogilvie (2) blasts a game-winning home run Friday night that lifted the Chaparrals to a 13-12 victory in 10 innings against West Texas A&M. The game was the first in a best-of-three series, and LCU swept with a 3-2 victory in 12 innings Saturday.

In Friday's series opener, Ogilvie hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 10th, lifting No. 4 seed LCU to a 13-12 victory over No. 5 seed West Texas A&M.

Nate Van Maanen, Jarred Gibson and Shull also homered for the Chaps.

Ogilvie's walk-off homer off Reese Miller (4-4) went to left field and enabled him to hit for the cycle for the second time this season. The Chaps' leadoff-batting shortstop singled in the first inning, tripled home a run and scored in the fourth and doubled in the sixth.

McCool, batting behind Ogilvie in the No. 2 hole, finished 4 for 5 with four RBI and three runs scored. The third baseman from Hobbs, New Mexico, hit RBI triples in the first and fourth innings and a two-run double in the sixth.

West Texas A&M forced extra innings on Eddy Savoie's two-out, two-run single in the ninth that tied it 12-12.

Shull pitched a scoreless 10th for the victory.

Trailing 6-2 in the third, LCU got a three-run homer from Van Maanen and a tying solo shot by Gibson.

West Texas A&M rallied within 11-10 with three runs in the seventh, the last two on a Fuenning home run. Shull answered with a solo homer in the LCU seventh.

Shull has 14 home runs this season, Van Maanen 12 and Gibson 10.

LCU righthander Chris Shull, pictured in Friday night's series opener, threw three scoreless innings in relief Saturday in the Chaparrals' 3-2 victory in 12 innings against West Texas A&M. LCU swept the first-round Lone Star Conference tournament series in two games, and Shull got the win in both games.
LCU righthander Chris Shull, pictured in Friday night's series opener, threw three scoreless innings in relief Saturday in the Chaparrals' 3-2 victory in 12 innings against West Texas A&M. LCU swept the first-round Lone Star Conference tournament series in two games, and Shull got the win in both games.

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: LCU baseball team sweeps West Texas A&M with two extra-inning victories