Jared King knocked in three runs on a trio of hits including a home run to lead K-State to a 7-5 victory at Texas Tech on Thursday night. The Cats need to win one of the next two games against the Red Raiders to clinch a berth in the Big 12 tournament next week. Kayvon Bahramzadeh went eight strong innings, giving up just two runs on four hits. Things got interesting the bottom of the 9th as Texas Tech put three runs on the board against reliever Gerardo Esquivel, before Nate Williams closed it out for his 6th save.
K-State and Texas Tech will match up for game two of their series on Friday nightat 6:30pm at Rip Griffin Park in Lubbock. The BD4 Distributing Pregame Show begins at 6:00 on SportsRadio 1350 KMAN.