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Updated 7:15 AM on Saturday, May 5, 2007

Aggies take Game 2 over Dallas Baptist

By RICHARD CROOME
Eagle Staff Writer

It was another great Friday night start for the Texas A&M Aggies. Only this time, the starter was Scott Migl, who shut down the Dallas Baptist Patriots for a 3-0 victory in Game 2 of the three-game nonconference series in front of 3,593 at Olsen Field.

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Buy this photo Eagle Photo/Gabriel Chmielewski Texas A&M second baseman Parker Dalton throws out a Dallas Baptist runner after making a diving stop Friday at Olsen Field.

Migl (6-1) retired 15 consecutive batters after Evan Bigley's first-inning double. He surrendered only six hits and no walks in 7 1/3 shutout innings.

Kyle Nicholson (10-1) has been the Aggies' Friday star, but with the series starting Thursday, Migl pitched Game 2 and was able to do what Nicholson couldn't - quiet the Patriot bats.

"I was more economical with the pitch count, trying to throw strikes," said Migl, who had a three-pitch inning and only threw 82 pitches. "I started painting the corners a little bit and got my breaking ball over, and that made it a little bit easier."

Game 3 is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, with David Newmann expected to start for A&M.

Migl helped his own cause in the field, getting over to cover first base on a ball second baseman Parker Dalton fielded early in the game.

In the seventh with one out and runners on second and third, Migl fielded a hard one-hopper.

He took his time finding the ball, then threw out Matt Tucker at home.

"I kind of cuffed it up with my body up in the arm and I went to grab it," Migl said. "I had my back to the plate kind of and I saw the guy taking off. I didn't have control but I just picked it up and fired it in there and got the out."

Migl, who induced Brandon Bantz to foul out to end the only real threat he faced, left in the eighth to a standing ovation after giving up a single by JT Bloodworth that bounced over the head of third baseman Dane Carter.

"[Migl] did a good job of getting ahead and finishing hard in and expanding the zone," A&M coach Rob Childress said. "He was throwing all four pitches well tonight."

Migl wasn't the only Aggie to flash a little leather.

With two outs and runners on first and third in the top of the eighth, A&M's Brodie Greene ran down a line shot off the bat of Matt Tucker before running into the right-field fence.

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Then with two outs and runners on first and third in the top of the ninth, Dalton leaped high to pull down a Bloodworth line drive to end the game and give Gary Campfield his third save of the season.

Campfield also earned the win in A&M's 11-10 victory Thursday.

"We made some great plays," Childress said. "Parker's to end the game and Brodie Greene's were the biggest play of the night. It's a 3-2 game if [Greene] doesn't make that catch."

The Aggies got all the runs they needed in the first inning.

Brandon Hicks went the opposite way to right for a single and scored on Blake Stouffer's double. Luke Anders followed with an RBI single, and after a Josh Stinson single, Greene drove in Anders with a sacrifice fly.

Hicks and Stouffer both had three hits, while Anders and Stinson each went 2 for 4.

Randall Taylor (5-4) settled down after the first inning, pitching a complete game for Dallas Baptist (25-22).

He gave up 11 hits, seven after the first inning, and walked none.

"We had opportunities to put them away. We had them on the ropes early," Childress said.

"We had runners second and third, one out and don't score, first and third one out and don't score, first and second no outs in the eighth and don't score. A lot of times those things come back to bite you, but we made some great plays."