Brownsville, TX --- The HT Rams baseball team ended their season in a hard fought game against #19 nationally ranked Texas Wesleyan University 5-2. It was a pitchers duel the entire game for nine innings, which lasted one hour and forty-eight minutes. The game was very interesting since both schools have the Rams as their mascot.

 Senior right-hander Travis O’Donnell (Austin, TX/Bowie HS) threw his sixth complete game of the season allowing 5 runs on 9 hits and striking out 5 Texas Wesleyan batters. O’Donnell led the HT Rams in innings pitched with 60.2 and finished second in strike outs with 50.

TWU scored first with a run in the bottom of the first inning and HT came back and tied it in the top of the third when Robert Pena (Austin, TX/Austin HS) led off the inning with a single to right field and was moved to second base on a sacrifice bunt by Ruben Rosales (Del Valle, TX/Del Valle HS). Pena moved to third base on a wild pitch and then scored when Tony Enos’s (Austin, TX/Bowie HS) ground ball was misplayed by the TWU third baseman.

TWU came back and scored a run in their half of the third inning and in the HT top of the fourth junior right fielder Jeremy Macklin (Austin, TX/Bowie HS) hit the second pitch of the inning for his sixth home run of the season, 386 feet over the left center field fence to tie the score at 2-2. Macklin’s home run broke the tie for most home runs on the team with Howard Limuel IV (Hutto, TX/Hutto HS).

TWU came back with a run in the seventh and two in the eighth before closing the game out with a win at 5-2.

Macklin and Pena both went 2 for 4 at the plate. Macklin hit .400 for for the tournament and leads the team with .399 batting average for the season.

For the 2008 baseball season the following Rams earned these RRAC honors:

            First Team All-Conference – Jeremy Macklin, UTL

Second Team All-Conference – Patrick Hines, 2B; Ro’Shard Shorter, SS;

    Travis O’Donnell, OF & P; Jamal Carrington, DH;

    Chris Tuttle, P; Trent Reynolds, C

            Honorable Mention – Luke Decker, P; Howard Limuel IV, 1B

The Rams finished the 2008 season with a 26-22 record and a 9-3 RRAC record.