Vinson Keys Aggies Win over Coastal Carolina

Sunday, May 31

College Station

12:00 PM

Texas A&M

47-12

Coastal Carolina

39-21

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Coastal Carolina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	6	3
Texas A&M	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	3	X	8	13	1

Photo by: Rick Yeatts

May 31, 2015 | Baseball

Box Score

– In his second career start, junior pitcher Andrew Vinson powered the No. 6 Texas A&M Aggies to an 8-1 win over the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers in an elimination game at the College Station Regional Sunday afternoon.

Vinson (5-2) impressed the patrons on Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park with 7.2 innings of scoreless baseball. He scattered five hits and three walks while striking out eight.

The Aggies pounced on the Chanticleers for two runs in the bottom of the first inning. With one out, Ryne Birk flared a ball in front of a diving Coastal Carolina rightfielder in the right-center gap for a double. Birk moved to second on a Mitchell Nau groundout to short and scored when Logan Taylor threaded a single through the left side of the infield. Nick Banks followed with a wall-banger to left-center, scoring Taylor with the double to stake A&M to a 2-0 advantage.

Banks hammered a 1-1 offering over the fence in right-center for a leadoff home run in the fourth, inflating the Aggie cushion to 3-0.

The Maroon and White added two runs in the sixth. Banks poked a leadoff single to leftfield and with one out, Logan Nottebrok turned a 1-2 pitch into a howitzer, hitting the video board in leftfield for a two-run dinger and a 5-0 lead.

Texas A&M (47-12) added three runs in the eighth inning including RBI singles by Michael Barash and Birk and a sacrifice fly by Taylor.

Coastal Carolina (39-21) finally broke the scoring seal in the ninth. The frame started with Ty Schlottmann walking a pair of Chanticleers and David Parrett eventually plated a run with a groundout to cut the A&M lead to 8-1.

Banks went 3-for-3 with two walks, one double, one home run, two runs and two RBI. Birk, Nau and Nottebrok each added two hits.

Bobby Holmes (4-1) was saddled with the loss for Coastal Carolina. He allowed five runs on eight hits while striking out four in 5.2 innings.

The Aggies advanced to play in a regional championship game against the California Golden Bears at 6:05 pm on Sunday. If Cal wins, they are regional champs and will play the winner of the Fort Worth Regional next weekend. If Texas A&M wins, the teams will play a winner-takes-all game on Monday evening at 6:35 pm.

Notes
Coastal Carolina (39-21)

Team Notes

With the loss, Coastal Carolina has been eliminated from the 2015 NCAA Baseball Championship.
The Chanticleers are now 0-1 all-time against Texas A&M.
Coastal Carolina's defense struggled against the Aggies, finishing with a trio of errors. Sunday's game marked 29th time this season that Coastal finished with multiple errors.
The Chanticleers batted 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position, with the lone hit coming in the ninth inning to avoid the shutout. Coastal had four runners erased via double plays ending the first, second, seventh and ninth innings.

Individual Notes

Anthony Marks was the lone Coastal Carolina player to finish with multiple hits, singles in the sixth and eighth innings. Marks finished the year leading the Chanticleers in hitting at .343 (83 hits in 242 at-bats). Marks reached base in 55 of the 60 games this season, including all three games at the College Station Regional.
Tyler Chadwick picked up the Chanticleer's only extra-base hit against Texas A&M, a double in the fifth inning. The base knock ran Chadwick's hit streak to seven games, his longest hit streak of the season. Chadwick finished the year with a base hit in 16 of the final 20 games, going 23-for-69 (.333) in that stretch.
Michael Paez, Zach Remillard and Kevin Woodall, Jr. also picked up hits for Coastal Carolina on the day.
Starting pitcher Bobby Holmes took the loss (4-1) throwing 5.2 innings. The freshman allowed five runs, all earned, on eight hits. The righty struck out four of the 27 batters he faced.
Brock Hunter (0.2 innings) and Mike Morrison (1.2 innings) closed out the game for Coast Carolina.

Texas A&M (47-12)

Team Notes

With the win the Aggies will face Cal Sunday at 6 p.m. in the regional championship game. If A&M wins, the 'if necessary' game will be played Monday at 6:30 p.m.
With the win Texas A&M improved to 1-0 all-time against Coastal Carolina.
A day after A&M was only able to tally one extra base hit in 14 innings against Cal, the Aggies collected six against Coastal Carolina (three doubles, a triple and a homerun).
Texas A&M finished with 13 hits on the day, their 33rd game with double-digit hits. A&M ended a seven-game streak without 10 or more hits Saturday against Cal, having now reached double digits in back-to-back games for the first time since the opening two games against South Carolina (May 8-9).

Individual Notes

Nick Banks launched his seventh homerun of the season in the fourth inning, the sophomore now has 46 RBI on the season (tied for second on team; Logan Taylor – 50, Mitchell Nau – 46). Banks picked up a single in the sixth to give him 22 multi-hit games on the season (tie for second on team; Blake Allemand – 24, Nau - 22). The A&M right fielder reached base all five times he came to the plate.
Taylor picked up an RBI single in the first inning for the second time in as many games, Taylor scored Ryne Birk from third to open the scoring for A&M. Taylor has five hits in his last nine at-bats to raise his batting average to .351 on the season. Taylor picked up a second RBI on the day in the eighth inning, hitting a sac fly to right field to score Allemand. Taylor tied Nau for the team lead with 14 multi-RBI games this season.
Logan Nottebrok pinged a 1-2 pitch off the scoreboard in left-center for his seventh homerun of the season, Banks scored on the play giving Nottebrok his sixth game this year with multiple RBI. Nottebrok has 26 RBI in his senior campaign.
With a double in the third inning, Nau extended his hit-streak to seven games, the longest current streak on the team. Nau went on to get a single in the seventh giving him 22 games with multiple hits.
Starting pitcher Andrew Vinson picked up the win (5-2) by not allowing a run in a career-high 7.2 innings. The junior whiffed a career-high eight batters, allowing five hits and three walks.
Ty Schlottmann relieved Vinson with a couple of runners on base and stranded both as he picked up a strike out to end the eighth inning. A&M relief pitchers have stranded 106-of-145 runners they have inherited this season (73.1 percent stranded).