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21
Winner Texas Permian Basin UTPB 35-23
12
Regis (Colo.) RU 32-23-1
Winner
Texas Permian Basin UTPB
35-23
21
Final
12
Regis (Colo.) RU
32-23-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Texas Permian Basin UTPB 2 0 9 1 2 1 3 3 0 21 24 3
Regis (Colo.) RU 1 0 4 0 0 1 6 0 0 12 11 5

W: DRAR (1-1) L: Ashcraft, Mason (6-7)

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Regis (Colo.) RU 33-24-1
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Winner Lubbock Christian LCU 42-14
Regis (Colo.) RU
33-24-1
4
Final
8
Lubbock Christian LCU
42-14
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Regis (Colo.) RU 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 4 8 1
Lubbock Christian LCU 3 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 X 8 14 2

W: ALGER,AYDEN (7-3) L: Zsidisin, Wyatt (4-3) S: AKERS,JOSH (3)

Garrett Rede 5.17
David Wilson, Regis Athletics
Regis junior outfielder Garrett Rede drove in six RBI on Friday.

Game Recap: Baseball | | David Wilson, Assistant AD-Communications

Rangers baseball concludes historic 2024 season in DII South Central Regional Tournament

LUBBOCK, Texas — A historic run for the Regis University baseball team unfortunately came to an end on Friday as the team fell 21-12 to No. 5 seed Texas Permian Basin, and 8-4 to top-seed No. 4 ranked Lubbock Christian, during Day One of the NCAA DII South Central Regional #1 hosted at Hays Field in Lubbock.

No. 4 seeded Regis finishes the 2024 season 32-24-1 overall, tied for the third most single-season wins in program history. The Rangers also advanced to the RMAC Tournament title game for the second straight season while also earning the team's third ever NCAA Division II Regional Tournament appearance; first since 2012.

While Friday's results were not what the Rangers were hoping for, they were plenty of reasons to smile for a Regis team that only returned two full-time starting position players from 2023, were preseason picked No. 5 in the RMAC Coaches' Poll, and underwent a head coaching change during the fall months.

"Overall, it was a tough day and disappointing for our group because we don't think we played our best style of baseball at the end of the day," said Regis head baseball coach, Pat Jolley, who was elevated to the head job this past October. "Looking back on this 2024 season is going to be special. There's only one team that's going to win their last game of the year and that's the national champion. Had we not been this type of team, this group, that 'Shovel Boy' persona, things could have ended a lot differently so I'm just so proud of these guys to make it this far and give themselves a fighting chance."

GAME TWO | 8-4 LOSS TO NO. 1 SEED LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN
In the night cap, the Rangers made a valiant comeback attempt, but were unable to overcome an early hole to the tournament hosts as Lubbock Christian (42-14 overall) held on for an 8-4 final.

Friday's game was the rubber match between the two South Central Region foes as both teams earned 11-6 victories against each other back on March 15th in Lubbock.

LCU captured the momentum early with a three-run first inning, and added at least one insurance run in the next three frames, to take a 7-0 lead into the middle innings.

Regis would get on the scoreboard in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by junior outfielder Garrett Rede. The Rangers would again threaten in the seventh with two outs as senior catcher Reagan Guthrie walked, and infielders Tanner Rice and Peter Goldy singled to load the bases. Unfortunately, the Rangers' were unable to cash in the two-out threat.

The Rangers would produce some two-out magic in the ninth inning, loading the bases again with two outs. Senior outfielder Levi Padilla singled home a run and another scored via a throwing error by the LCU shortstop. One batter later, Rede lined another RBI single into right-center to make it an 8-4 deficit with two men aboard.

Rice and Rede each produced two hits apiece to pace the Regis offense, while Rede's two RBI in the nightcap brought him up to a team-high six RBI on the day.

Senior designated hitter Cam Dalrymple nearly followed with a RBI single of his own, but the LCU second baseman was able to snag the ball and back-hand flip to second base for the force out to end the ballgame instead of Regis getting to bring the tying run to the plate.

On the mound, senior left-hander Ethan Sloan tossed four strong innings, allowed just two runs on five hits while striking out three. Fellow senior Logan Deskin punched out two in the seventh inning and junior left-hander Griffin Bruder worked a 1-2-3 eighth.

GAME ONE | 21-12 LOSS TO NO. 4 SEED UT PERMIAN BASIN
In the first game of Friday's action, a tough third inning on defense would put the Rangers in a hole they were never quite able to climb out of, falling by a 21-12 final to University of Texas-Permian Basin (35-23 overall).

UTPB tallied two runs in the top of the first, but Regis answered with a run in the home-half courtesy of a RBI single by Rede that plated junior shortstop Clayton Conn.

The game got away from the Rangers in the top of the third as the Falcons scored nine runs, none earned, as back-to-back errors defensively to start the inning helped spark the frame.

Regis tried to get back in the ballgame with four runs of its own in the bottom of the third with a RBI double by Padilla, run-scoring ground outs by Rede and junior first baseman Matt Graf, and a RBI hit-by-pitch from Rice that trimmed the deficit to 11-5.

Unfortunately for the Rangers, they were unable to get a shutdown inning as UTPB added at least one run in each of the next five innings to negate a six-spot by Regis in the seventh, highlighted by RBI doubles from Padilla and Rede, as well as RBI singles from Rice and Cam Dalrymple.

WHAT A CLASS
In the postgame interviews Friday, Coach Jolley was joined by Sloan and Padilla; a pair of four-year standouts with career seasons in 2024. They were a part of a 10-man senior class that was instrumental in building a Regis program that hovered around .500 into a program that has been on the heels of perennial powers Colorado Mesa in the RMAC and put the Rangers back on the national scene for the first time since 2012.

The other eight seniors honored by the Rangers this spring included: Dalrymple, Guthrie, Deskin, Dylan De Leon, Austin Hamilton, Dakari Armendariz, Brendan Thome and Caleb Ayers.

"These guys have been unbelievable leaders and unbelievable men. I know they're going to go make their impact in the world the same way they have on this team," Jolley said of his senior class. "I think at the end of the day, you want to leave places better than you found it. I know that both of these guys (Padilla and Sloan) and the eight other seniors that were out on that field, saying goodbye to their teammates, can sit here and say without a doubt that they made Regis baseball better and left it better than they found it."
 
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