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Granger Studdard, Tanner Hill and Cedric Vallieres lead a three-headed attack for the Bobcats. Stud dard leads the team in RBIs (29) and home runs (9). He is tied for first on the team in triples with two this season, and is second on the team in doubles. Vallieres and Hill are second and third in team RBIs and home runs, respectively. Vallieres also leads the team with nine doubles this year. With a variety of weapons at their dis posal, the No. 5 Aggies (37-7, 13-6 SEC) are outscoring their opponents 84 to 24 in mid week contests. Logan Taylor remains one of the hottest bats in the lineup, hitting .372 this season. After the team’s trip to LSU, Taylor leads the Aggies with 41 RBIs this season. He also flashed professional-grade glove skills with a diving catch to save A&M a few runs in one game, and his arm gunned down two runners at the plate over the weekend. Nick Banks has stayed hot all year, and while his batting average is below .400 now, Banks continues to produce runs and hits in clutch situations, which he exhibited over the weekend. OLSEN MAGIC CONTINUED the season perfect through 24 contests. Through each year, coach Childress has seen the magic happen within Olsen Field. He even shaped his own definition for it. “The definition of [Olsen Magic] is that we are never out of the game,” Childress said. “No matter what the score, no matter where we are in the game, we are always there, especially late in games. Our guys understand the feel of the 12th Man and the difference they make throughout the course of the game.” In their 2015 campaign, the Aggies have continued to make the magic prevalent. In one of their first series of the year, the Ag gies trailed Dartmouth 3-0 in the eighth inning, but a four-run eighth inning helped the Aggies earn a 4-3 victory, and keep their undefeated record in tact. Amid their 24-game winning streak, the Aggies trailed UT-Pan American 3-0 in the eighth in ning. After a three-run eighth inning, the Aggies won the game in the 11th inning on a Ronnie Gideon walk-off hit. Again in April, the Aggies trailed Rice going to the seventh inning only to win the ballgame with a go-ahead hit in the eighth inning. “There was one game, I think it was a Tuesday night, against UTS A in my fresh man year,” Nau said. “There was severe weather coming. We had a guy on first base. Tyler Naquin was at the plate, and we were down 3-2. [Naquin] got two strikes on him, and then he hit a home run into the bullpen as lightning struck right by Kyle Field. They called the game since it had been seven innings, and we got the win. As a freshman, it was pretty cool to see that.” Longtime Texas A&M play-by-play an nouncer Dave South offers a different per spective of the spectrum. Since coming to Texas A&M in 1985, he has become the “Voice of Aggieland” to Aggie fans every where. Through all of the years, he said his favorite moment came with the 1999 ball Turner Larkins will make his 12th start of the season Tuesday and is second on the team with 46 strikeouts. The pitching staff remains one of the best in the country for A&M, posting a 2.57 ERA, which is seventh best in the nation. On Tuesday, freshman Turner Larkins will make his 12th start of the season. Larkins boasts a 5-1 record with a 3.31 ERA, and is second on the team with 46 strikeouts. In his last outing against UT-Arlington, he worked three innings, giving up just two hits and no runs with three strikeouts. Texas State is 8-12 away from home this year, while the Aggies have posted a 28-4 mark at Olsen Field. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m. club that went to the College World Series. “The Clemson win in the Super Re gional that sent us to Omaha, that to me was as good as it gets,” South said. “At the time, no one knew it, but they had a ban ner they let go over the green monster out there that said ‘Aggies in the College World Series.’ That to me would be one of the greatest moments. We won, get a strikeout, game is over; Aggies win and we go to the CWS.” Not only has it been seen by com mentators and fans alike, but the players see how much of a difference the student body makes for the team, especially late in games. Catcher Mitchell Nau said it also stems largely from the support of the stu dents and fans. “I think it is a belief from our fanbase,” Nau said. “They think that we are never out of a game. I don’t know how long ago it started, but that tradition has been car ried over and over through the decades of baseball here, and I think it rubs off on our players. I truly believe it comes from the atmosphere the fans create, and that we cre ate in the dugout. It’s a great feeling to have in the ninth inning to know, ‘It’s Olsen Magic time,’ so that is what it means to me.” During the weekend series against Mis souri, A&M broke the home attendance record since the Blue Bell Park renovations in 2012, and shattered the student atten dance record for a game. Two weekend series, Arkansas and Missouri, are on the all-time record Olsen Field attendance list for a three-game series. South said this spirit is unique to A&M. “Other places we go in the sports I cov er, you don’t find what we have here any where,” South said. “There’s no one that has anything better than this, in the sports I cover, our football, our basketball and our baseball, this student body is unbelievable. There is nothirig like this anywhere in the country. 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