BATON ROUGE, La. – The Alabama State baseball team lost to Texas Southern 6-3 Thursday afternoon in an elimination game in the 2012 SWAC Baseball Tournament.
 
The Hornets (20-36) broke a scoreless tie with three runs in the fifth inning. Leo Rojas led off with a single and was bunted over to second base by Emmanuel Marrero. After a Ryan Epperson bunt single moved Rojas to third, Richard Amion's bunt single scored Rojas. After a double steal, Richard Gonzalez' single to right-center field scored Epperson and Amion to give Alabama State a 3-0 lead.
 
The score remained that way until the bottom of the seventh inning, when Texas Southern (24-27) scored three in the inning with two outs on a solo home run, a walk, and a two-run homer to tie the score 3-3. In the eighth, the Tigers added three runs for the final margin.
 
“It's us against the world,” head coach Mervyl Melendez said. “We have a target on our backs and that's just the way it's going to be until our players matture. We can fight the elements and all, but they're still kids. It only takes one pitch; it only takes one pitch sometimes to change momentum. The outcome is very disappointing, but very happy the guys understood what it took to be competitive in the ball game.”

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