{"id":1533,"date":"2019-05-28T03:31:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T03:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2019-05-28T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T03:31:36","slug":"texas-am-kingsville-takes-game-one-in-2019-dii-championship-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville takes game one in 2019 DII Championship Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DENVER&nbsp;\u2013<\/strong> A two-run homer by Veronica Chavez&nbsp;jump-started a six-run sixth inning for Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville and it keyed the Javelinas (52-8) to a 7-2 victory over Augustana in the first game of the Division II National Championship Series on Sunday night at the Regency Athletic Complex in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='' title=''><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Box Score<\/p>\n<p>TAMUK is now one win away from the program&#8217;s first national championship, while the Vikings (59-11) will have to win two games for their program&#8217;s second title. Game two of this best-of-three at 4 p.m. ET on Monday, May 27 with the start time for the if-necessary game on Monday is TBD.<\/p>\n<p>Augustana sandwiched solo home runs by Samantha Eisenreich and Kendall Cornick around Victoria Schoonard-Saborio to grab a 2-1 lead in the third.<\/p>\n<p>A leadoff double by&nbsp;Roxy Chapa&nbsp;got TAMUK started in the sixth, followed by Chavez&#8217;s two-run blast to put the Javelinas in the lead for good. With the bases loaded,&nbsp;Schoonard-Saborio cleared the bases with a double off the rightfield fence. The rally was capped off by Anastasia Leibas, who punched a single through the middle, plating Schoonard-Saborio.<\/p>\n<p>Following Cornick&#8217;s long ball, Saidi Castillo (27-4) kepts Augustana&#8217;s bats at bay, allowing just one hit from the fourth inning on. She finished allowing two runs on five hits with six strikeouts and four walks.<\/p>\n<p>Viking starter Ashley Mickschl (30-6) suffered her first loss of the tournament. In six innings, she surrendered seven runs on 12 hits. She fanned three and walked two. Five different Vikings recorded a hit.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Information courtesy of Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER&nbsp;\u2013 A two-run homer by Veronica Chavez&nbsp;jump-started a six-run sixth inning for Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville and it keyed the Javelinas (52-8) to a 7-2 victory over Augustana in the first game of the Division II National Championship Series on Sunday night at the Regency Athletic Complex in Denver. Click Here: Box Score TAMUK is now one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}