Box Score
FORT WORTH, TX:  The Texas Wesleyan University baseball team (17-13) took an 8-7 win over UT-Dallas (12-8) at LaGrave Field on Tuesday.
 
The Comets snuck an unearned run across in the first after Jimmy Norris drew a leadoff walk and later scored on a passed ball.  In the second, a grounder from Nolan Smith found its way through the right side of the infield for an RBI hit that pushed the score to 2-0.
 
The Rams sent ten men to the plate in the fourth.  They loaded the bases with one out, and Joel Rickman delivered an RBI single.  Manny Sanchez followed with a grounder that plated Quavian Lawson with the tying run, and Anthony Samuel scampered in from second on an errant throw by the Comet second baseman.  Another Comet error and a two-run standup triple from Jake Howeth gave the Rams a 6-2 advantage.
 
The Comets came back with another unearned tally in the fifth to close the gap to 6-3.
 
Texas Wesleyan added an important insurance run in the sixth, starting the frame with a bunt single from Samuel and a hit from Sanchez to put runners at the corners with nobody out.  Jonathan Bravo then scored Samuel with a sacrifice fly.
 
In the seventh, the Comets got consecutive RBI from Tanner Gandy, Nick Marti, and Ryan Downs to get within a run at 7-6.
 
Sanchez put down a safety squeeze in the eighth to bring the score to 8-6.  That run proved to be important as a TWU error led to a Comet run in the ninth.  However Avery Sullivan stranded the tying run at first base to nail down his third save of the season.
 
Easton Etter (3-1) earned the win after allowing three runs, one earned, on four hits in five innings pitched.  Sullivan allowed just an unearned run while striking out two in two innings.
 
Howeth, Adam Turpin, Samuel, and Sanchez each recorded  a pair of hits as the Rams outhit the Comets 11-9.
 
The Rams will return to action on Friday, when they travel to Oklahoma City, OK, for a Sooner Athletic Conference series with Oklahoma City University.  That game is scheduled for a 3:00 p.m. start.