FORT WORTH - No. 15 Texas Wesleyan Baseball (35-8, 14-4 SAC) took care of business Friday against Bacone (1-22, 1-18 SAC) at Sycamore Park 3-1 to pull within 1.5 games of the Sooner Athletic Conference's first-place team - University of Science and Arts-Oklahoma.

The game didn't feature many meaningful plays as both pitching staffs had a slight advantage most of the day but moments stuck out and were major difference-makers.

THE HOMER
Up 2-1, Michael Davila stepped up to the plate, 0-for-2 against Bacone's Tyler Jackson, who, in over 120 pitches, allowed just six hits and struck out four. Not Davila. Not this time. Davila took a 3-0 count and smashed a ball towards the giant tree that sits just to the right of the scoreboard in left field as the two become one over the fence. It was Davila's third homer of the season - all at home - and it gave the Rams a much-needed run and spike in excitement on an otherwise sluggish but peaceful afternoon at the ballpark.

THE ERROR
With Bacone up 1-0, the Rams grounded into two outs with their first two batters in the bottom of the second. The bats came alive after that, with Sheadion Jamanika's double to left field. Tanner Amaral took a pitch to the midsection and then Brooks Wallace singled past the diving reach of the Warrior shortstop to bring in TXWES' first run. The game-changing run, however, came next. Joseph Barfield trickled a somewhat-surprising fair ball (at least to the third baseman) down the left-field line as 3B Andrew Adams waited on the hop. Instead of simply stepping back onto third base to utilize a fielder's choice to end the inning, he stepped forward and threw to first - way off the mark drawing the first baseman out to stop a ball from spinning off the field. The unearned run scored Amaral and the horrific second inning blues of Bacone continued. The Warriors have now been outscored 35-0 in the second frame this season.

CAMERON AND THE CLOSERS
The Rams threw Jesse Ramirez and Parker Robinson - the team's top two ERA pitchers - at the Warriors in the last two innings, collecting the seventh save for Robinson. Both struck out two of their three batters faced. Cameron Vige improved to 7-2 this year earning an impressive nine strikeouts through seven frames. It was the fourth game this season Vige had at least 9 Ks and his 73 strikeouts is now tied for 19th in the NAIA.

Jamanika was the team's only batter with multiple hits in the game, going 2-for-3. He also capped a brilliant 6-4-3 double play in the third, nearly doing the splits while keeping a toe on the bag, showing the umpires the ball in hand undoubtedly. Barfield registered a triple to right-center in the sixth while Caden Williams cracked a double to the center field wall to start the third.

WHAT'S NEXT
The Rams will wrap up a three-game series with Bacone Saturday with a doubleheader starting at noon before hosting LSU-Shreveport, which has now been moved to Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. Texas Wesleyan hasn't lost to Bacone since 2011, a 13-game winning streak.