Cats Fall to Texas; Await NCAA Destination
May 23, 2009 | Baseball
With the victory,
Jungmann (7-3) scattered five hits on the afternoon and surrendered two runs while striking out four. Austin Wood recorded his 14th save of the season after tossing the final 1.1 innings. K-State’s Matt Applegate suffered the loss after facing just one batter, a walk that eventually broke a 2-2 tie.
With the game tied at two apiece in the sixth, Applegate (2-2) came out of the bullpen in relief of Todd Vogel. Applegate walked the first batter he faced in Brandon Belt and went to 2-0 to Russell Moldenhauer before being lifted in favor of Evan Marshall. Moldenhauer sacrificed Belt over to second base and, following a ground out, Loy singled up the middle to bring home the eventual winning run.
Vogel, a senior right-hander, was effective as he allowed two runs on five hits in 5.0 innings of work in the no decision.
Loy paced the Longhorns offensively as the shortstop went 2-for-3 with two RBI.
The Longhorns wasted little time in the fourth inning to plate the game’s first run after a leadoff double by Belt got things started. Belt then moved to third on a ground out and scored on a Preston Clark sacrifice fly to give
K-State came right back with a pair of runs in the fifth inning. Dane Yelovich was hit by a one-out pitch and moved first to third on a single to left field by Muenster. Cater Jurica was next and hit a RBI ground out to short to tie the game. Nick Martini followed and hit a ground ball to Loy, who booted the ball and allowed
UT also scratched across another run in the eighth when a bases-loaded infield single by Loy drove in another run.
