Ryan Glass
Jay Crain
7
Winner Georgia State GSU 13-35, 8-11 Sun Belt
4
Texas State TXST 21-29, 9-10 Sun Belt
Winner
Georgia State GSU
13-35, 8-11 Sun Belt
7
Final
4
Texas State TXST
21-29, 9-10 Sun Belt
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Georgia State GSU 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 2 7 9 1
Texas State TXST 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 4 1

W: Jones, Cameron (1-6) L: Z. Leigh (4-6) S: Dawson, Chandler (1)

9
Winner Georgia State GSU 14-35, 9-11 Sun Belt
4
Texas State TXST 21-30, 9-11 Sun Belt
Winner
Georgia State GSU
14-35, 9-11 Sun Belt
9
Final
4
Texas State TXST
21-30, 9-11 Sun Belt
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Georgia State GSU 4 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 9 14 1
Texas State TXST 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 7 3

W: Watson, Ryan (3-4) L: Z. Wood (3-5)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Panthers Hit Five Homers in DH Sweep at Texas State

2 Homers, 5 RBI by Ryan Glass in the Nightcap

SAN MARCOS, TEXAS  – Georgia State hit five home runs, including two by Ryan Glass, to back strong pitching and sweep a Sun Belt Conference doubleheader at Texas State, 7-4 and 9-4, Friday at Bobcat Ballpark.
 
Freshmen hurlers Cameron Jones and Chandler Dawson combined for the win in Game 1, while senior Tyler Koch and sophomore Ryan Watson shut down the Bobcats in Game 2. The GSU bullpen combined for 14 strikeouts while allowing just one run in 12 innings.
 
Josh Smith, Blaine Marchman and Griffin Cheney homered in Game 1, and then Glass hit a two-run homer and a three-run blast in the nightcap. Smith collected five hits with two doubles and a homer in the twin bill.
 
The series concludes Saturday with a 3:30 p.m. ET game on ESPN+.
 
 
GAME 1: Georgia State 7, Texas State 4
 
Josh Smith, Blaine Marchman and Griffin Cheney homered to lead Georgia State to a 7-4 victory over Texas State in Game 1 of the doubleheader.
 
The win is the 350th career victory for GSU head coach Brad Stromdahl, in his second season at Georgia State and ninth overall.
 
With Georgia State trailing 3-1, Smith hit a three-run homer, his seventh of the season, in the fifth inning to put the Panthers ahead 4-3.
   
After Texas State tied the game, Marchman, the second-year freshman catcher, led off the seventh with his first career home run to give the Panthers a lead they would not relinquish.
 
Cheney drove in the Panthers' first run in the third inning and then provided insurance with a two-run homer in the top of the ninth.
 
GSU starter Cameron Jones (1-6) earned his first win of the season as the freshman left-hander pitched six innings, allowing four runs on four hits with six strikeouts. Righty Chandler Dawson, Jones' prep teammate at Houston County High School, finished the job with three hitless, scoreless innings to earn his first save.

That marks the second straight series that Jones and Dawson combined for the Friday night victory; they also teamed together for a 3-2 win over Coastal Carolina two weeks ago.

Dawson has allowed just one run over his last seven appearances, compiling a 2-0 record with one save and a 0.53 ERA in that stretch. 
 
GAME 2: Georgia State 9, Texas State 4
 
Ryan Glass hit two home runs and drove in five runs, and Tyler Koch and Ryan Watson combined for 13 strikeouts as the Panthers completed the doubleheader sweep of Texas State with a 9-4 victory.
 
Georgia State jumped in front with four runs in the top of the first on RBI-doubles by Will Mize and Ashby Smith and a two-run homer by Glass.
 
The Bobcats answered with three runs in the bottom of the first as GSU starter Chad Treadway failed to record an out.
 
But Koch, the fifth-year senior left-hander came on and recorded three straight outs, including two strikeouts.
 
Koch went on to toss two more scoreless innings and finished with six strikeouts, including five in a row.
 
Watson (3-4), the sophomore righty, took over in the fourth and went the distance, allowing just one run on four hits. He struck out seven and walked none to earn his 11th career victory, the most among active Panthers.
 
After the two teams combined for seven runs in the first inning, neither team scored again until the sixth, when Georgia State's Dalton Pearson singled and scored on a wild pitch to put the Panthers up 5-3.
 
GSU added another run in the seventh on Ashby Smith's sacrifice fly, and then Glass hit his second homer of the game with a mammoth three-run blast to center field to extend the Panthers' lead to 9-3.
 
With his second multi-homer game of the season, Glass now has six home runs on the year and 17 for his career.
 
 
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