By GARY STALLARD
AC Athletics
The Angelina College Roadrunners took a break from conference play on Monday to host TCS Post Grad Academy, and the AC bats were hot in a 9-7, 12-2 sweep at Roadrunner Field.
Taylor Meaux and Sean Bergeron each homered in the opener, and Alec Paz and Alex Ashby went deep in the nightcap as part of AC’s 21 combined hits in the two games.
Meaux scraped a three-run homer off the top of the right field wall in the first game, and Bergeron followed Meaux’s fifth-inning double with a long blast over the left-field wall in the fifth. Nic Garza and Dylan Rivers drove in a run each for the Roadrunners.
Pitcher Chandler Reece threw three scoreless innings, and reliever Jeremy Rodriguez earned the save with his work in the seventh after retiring two of the three batters he faced.
In the nightcap, Paz got the ‘Runner scoring started with a two-run homer in the bottom of the first. Ashby added a solo shot in the third, and Garza drove in two more runs with a double in the same frame. Garza added his third RBI with a single in the fourth.
AC closed out the game in the sixth with Brett Mugavero’s RBI sacrifice fly and a walk-off double from Euro Diaz.
Roadrunner starting pitcher Tanner Sembera went four innings and allowed two earned runs; Clayton Hill threw one scoreless inning in relief; and J.T. Migues struck out two of the three batters he faced in his one inning of work.
The Roadrunners (18-13, 5-6) resume conference play Thursday afternoon against Paris College. The single, nine-inning game starts at 3 p.m.
The teams will wrap up the series with Friday’s doubleheader scheduled for a 1 p.m. start. All three games will take place at Roadrunner Field in Lufkin.
The e-mail address for AC’s Sports Information Director is gstallard@angelina.edu.
