Kubitza Ropes Two Home Runs to Defeat Cowboys

The Bobcats entered Friday night’s game against McNeese State riding a nine game win streak and fresh off of a dominating win against #9 Baylor on Wednesday. Coming into the game, the Bobcats were 28-10 overall, first in the Southland, and looking for some national respect from the college baseball nation.

Kane Holbrooks took the mound going for his ninth win (8-0) and did so respectively recording seven innings of solid work that included six strikeouts and only two earned runs. Initially, Holbrooks had a few control issues but settled in very nicely around the second or third inning, recording 8 outs in a row at one point. The offense got started in the bottom of the fourth inning as Tyler Sibley hit a solo homerun to left center field, and then the Cats strung together a couple of hits respectively to put a four spot in the bottom of the fourth inning.

In the sixth inning, the bottom of the lineup stepped up for the Bobcats, as they have done several times this season, and put up three runs in the sixth inning capped by a towering 2-run bomb off of the bat of Kyle Kubitza. Holbrooks gave up a run in the fifth and the seventh inning, but in doing so grabbed his Southland Conference leading ninth win to remain perfect on the season thus far. After being lifted after seven innings, Holbrooks got even more unneeded insurance runs in the bottom half of the inning off the bats of the bottom of the lineup. Ben Theriot doubled in the left center field gap, and not but two at-bats later Kyle Kubitza struck once again with a screaming line drive homerun over the power alley in right center field to plate Theriot and give the Bobcats a comfortable 9-2 lead going into the eighth inning.

Lance Loftin came in and pitched the last two innings of the game, giving up only one earned run as the Bobcats closed out the victory Friday night over the McNeese State Cowboys 9-4. Once again, the bottom of the lineup worked their wonders today as Theriot collected three hits, Martinsen collected a double and a triple, and as mentioned earlier Kyle Kubitza recorded 2 homeruns and 4 rbi’s.

Although the Cats took game one, they look to sweep the mediocre Cowboys in order to stay atop the Southland Conference (with UT Arlington and Sam Houston State nipping at their heels) and move closer toward the number one seed come tournament time. With the win the Bobcats move to 29-10 overall and 16-5 in the SLC, and seek national respect with games still yet to play against Texas, Texas A&M, and Rice.

The Bobcats are on pace to set the single season record in team wins and look to keep the train rolling as they enter the climax of the season. Game two in this weekend’s series will be tomorrow at 2:00 with Zach Tritz taking the mound looking for his sixth win of the year. You can listen to all the action live streaming on txstatebobcats.com.

Weston Warner- KTSW Sports Staff Writer