TEXARKANA, TX - No. 15 Texas Wesleyan Baseball (34-8) used 14 hits and the return of Jesse Ramirez to take down Texas A&M-Texarkana, 6-4, Tuesday afternoon in mid-week, out-of-conference action.

Ramirez got the win in two innings of work to improve to 6-0 this season. He struck out two of the eight batters he faced but more importantly got his first work in on the mound since early March. He got support from Parker Robinson who earned save number six on the year, recording a blistering four Ks against only seven batters. Josh Brown, Ian Nash, Justin Ward and Steven Frederick all got work in the nine-inning marathon.

Caden Williams electrified the Eagles, going 4-for-5 from the plate with a RBI. Only 13 players in Rams history have ever had more than four hits in a game, joining Michael Davila as the only other Texas Wesleyan player this year with four hits in one contest (Davila had four against Texas College on January 27). Williams is now hitting .470, which would be the fourth-best batting average in the NAIA if he continues to get plenty of action. NAIA leaderboards only include players who have played in 75% of the team's games that season. Williams is climbing, now up to 62% of overall action.

Texas Wesleyan got moving with a four-run first inning that set the tone. It started with Brayden Bahnsen's double to right field and Williams' first double traded places with him. Davila stepped up next and blooped a RBI single before Jeddediah Fagg was hit by a pitch. Fagg's now been hit 12 times by a pitch, the most since David Kiriakos was hit a whopping 21 times in the 2013 season. The Rams are on pace to have more hit batters than in any season in the last 13 years (67 hit batters in 2013, in 2019 TXWES batters have been struck 56 times already).

Sheadion Jamanika and Tanner Amaral earned RBI singles to push the advantage to four. 

After blanking Texarkana in the bottom of the first, the Rams got two more runs in the next frame this time with RBI from Davila and Fagg for a 6-0 lead. TXWES held on from there as the Eagles squeezed every last drop they could out of their few chances. Texarkana managed just one hit better than a single (double) and took just one walk. Texas Wesleyan's pitching staff collectively struck out 10.

After Amaral's initial flyout in the first, he connected on his last three opportunities to go 3-for-4 with a RBI, his fourth game of the season with three connections.

WHAT'S NEXT
After finishing off a home-and-home sweep of the Eagles, the Rams will return home Friday and Saturday for dates with Bacone. Friday's doubleheader is slated for 1 p.m. and a nine-inning Saturday show will begin at 12 p.m. LSU-Shreveport will finally make an appearance in Fort Worth Tuesday April 16, a home game moved from earlier in the season due to frigid temperatures.