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Rob Childress

Andrew Vinson

Jonathan Moroney

The No. 3 Texas A&M Aggies got a walk-off single from seniorto beat the Alabama Crimson Tide, 2-1, in the series rubber match Sunday on Blue Bell Park at Olsen Park.The game was all square 1-1 heading into the bottom half of the ninth inning.worked a walk from Tide reliever Matt Foster (4-3) to begin the frame.laid down the Aggies' third sacrifice bunt of the game to put the winning run in scoring position. That put Moroney in a position to be the hero. After looking at the first two pitches, Moroney punched a 1-1 offering back through the middle. With Birk rounding third with a full head of steam, Alabama centerfielder Georgie Salem misplayed the ball allowing the winning run to score uncontested.With the victory, Texas A&M (32-8, 12-6 SEC) extended their lead in the SEC Western Division back out to two games. They sit two games ahead of LSU, Mississippi State and Ole Miss who are all 10-8 in league play.The Aggies struck first with a run in the third inning off Alabama starter Nick Eicholtz. With one out,singled up the middle bringing his hitting streak to 13. Moss followed it up with a double off the left field wall plating Homan and putting the Aggies up 1-0.Alabama (24-17, 9-9 SEC) pitching buckled down after that keeping the Maroon and White off the scoreboard for the next seven innings.got the start on the mound for A&M. The senior allowed just two hits in five innings of work. He fanned eight in during his team leading 10start of the season.Simonds worked into some trouble in the sixth allowing two walks to begin the inning and was relieved by. Vinson started with a huge play getting the lead runner at third on a sacrifice attempt. That would save a run as Bama singled up the middle scoring just one, but tying the game. With one out, Bama sent a dribbler down the baseline giving Vinson an easy out at first. Cobie Vance, the Alabama runner on third, took off for home on the throw, but Melton fired home ending the inning on a 1-3-2 double play.A&M threatened to break the tie in the eighth putting the leadoff runner on with Homan's walk. After getting sacrificed to second, Homan was stranded there when the Aggie bats went quiet for the next two outs.Simonds and Vinson held Alabama to just three hits on the afternoon with two of the infield variety.Vinson (1-1) worked 4.0 innings of relief using only 32 pitches He surrendered one hit fanning four Tide hitters. His perfect ninth inning set the table for the Aggies' walk-off magic in the bottom half of the inning.Birk reached base twice and scored the winning run for A&M.went 1-for-3 with a walk. The junior has reached base twice in each of the 18 SEC games. Homan had a perfect day going 1-for-1 with a sacrifice bunt.Despite being left with no decision, Eicholtz was brilliant in the start for Alabama. He yielded one run on six hits and no walks while striking out five in 7.0 innings.Texas A&M went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position on the day, but the one hit was the game-winner from Moroney.The Aggies return to Blue Bell Park at Olsen Field for a Tuesday tilt with UT-Arlington before heading to Fayetteville to meet the Razorbacks. First pitch on Tuesday is set for 6:34."Alabama gave us everything that they wanted and we wanted, and then some. I can't say enough about the pitching staff, they did a great job all weekend long. Pitching coach, pitching staff did something that hasn't been done to us very often this year.""We were both going with all of our chips in. He went all in with his two guys and we were going in with (Mark) Ecker there and (Andrew) Vinson in front of him. That's what you do on Sunday. You don't often see a 2-1 game on Sunday and I think that's just a testament to the pitching and defense that we saw this weekend.""It was incredibly important. Yesterday we could have gone away quietly 7-0 and him being fresh and ready to go but we took 25 pitches from him yesterday and got to see him.got to see him yesterday too and went up there ready to hit.""First of all, I was trying to get that run out from scoring because Kyle (Simonds) pitched a heck of a game. Unfortunately, I didn't but fortunately I didn't let the other run score.""Once I fielded it I looked at him and thought he was going back and I guess I probably could have thrown him out at third too, but (Hunter) Melton with his strong arm over there just get the ball to him and let him do the rest. Once I heard him going home I knew Melton was going to throw him out.""Just trusting my stuff, trusting this coaching staff, and really just letting my defense work, just let them worry and let them do their thing. They're going to do their job.""I saw him yesterday and he started throwing me inside, so he kind of jammed me on that pitch yesterday. I knew what his delivery looked like and I knew he had some sink in his ball. I was expecting something middle-in. Of course, he threw it middle-in, I saw and I just tried to hit it.""It's an awesome experience, but it's not just me that won this game. It's the whole team combined. We struggled there a little bit in the middle of the game but we kept on fighting and Alabama kept on fighting. It was going to come down to someone getting the big hit. They just called my name and I was taking full advantage of it."