# SEC Baseball: USC Trojans Defeats Texas A&M Aggies 14-3

**Published:** 2026-06-01 — **By:** Stacy Stanfield
**Category:** games — **Type:** game-recap
**Source:** https://secscouts.com/news/usc-trojans-defeat-texas-am-aggies-14-3-sec-baseball

**Teams:** [Texas](https://secscouts.com/texas/), [Texas A&M](https://secscouts.com/texas-am/)

**Players:** [Gavin - P Lyons](https://secscouts.com/players/?id=13811), [Hunter - P Vincent](https://secscouts.com/players/?id=13927), [Jake Duer](https://secscouts.com/players/?id=13924), [Gavin Grahovac](https://secscouts.com/players/gavin-grahovac), [Chris Hacopian](https://secscouts.com/players/?id=13922), [Nico Partida](https://secscouts.com/players/nico-partida), [Ben Royo](https://secscouts.com/players/ben-royo)


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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (05/30/2026) — The USC Trojans erased an early deficit and pulled away with a 14-run outburst to defeat the Texas A&M Aggies 14-3 on Saturday at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.

Texas A&M struck first, but USC answered immediately and never trailed again, piling on extra-base hits and a relentless top-to-bottom attack that overwhelmed the Aggies in front of their home crowd.

## How It Happened

The Aggies got on the board in the bottom of the first when Chris Hacopian homered to left to make it 1-0. The lead lasted only minutes. USC came right back in the top half of the inning, with Kevin Takeuchi singling to center to plate two runs and Andrew Lamb doubling to left to score two more, flipping the score to 4-1.

USC kept the pressure on in the third. Lamb again delivered, homering to right center to score Isaiah Cadena and Jack Basseer and stretching the lead to 7-1. Augie Lopez followed in the fourth with a two-run homer to left center, pushing the advantage to 9-1.

Texas A&M's Gavin Grahovac answered with a solo homer to left in the fifth to trim the margin to 9-2, but the Trojans had already established firm control. Walter Urbon's two-run single to left in the seventh made it 11-2, and USC blew the game open in the eighth.

## Turning Point

USC's first-inning response was the sequence that decided the game. After Hacopian's homer gave Texas A&M a brief 1-0 edge — the only lead change of the day — the Trojans answered with a four-run frame keyed by Takeuchi's two-run single and Lamb's two-run double. That immediate counterpunch turned a one-run deficit into a 4-1 cushion and set the tone. The Trojans never surrendered the lead again, and the game featured exactly one lead change with no ties after that opening exchange.

The eighth inning provided the exclamation point. After Jake Duer tripled to deep right center to score Nico Partida and pull Texas A&M within 11-3, USC answered with three more runs. Basseer doubled to right center to score Lopez and Takeuchi, and Riske singled to left to plate Basseer, capping the 14-3 final.

## Star of the Game

Andrew Lamb powered the USC offense, going 3-for-3 with a home run, five RBI, a run scored and a walk. His two-run double in the first and three-run homer in the third accounted for five of the Trojans' runs and broke the game open early.

Lamb had plenty of support. Augie Lopez went 3-for-4 with a home run, three runs scored, two RBI and a walk, while Jack Basseer added a 2-for-4 day with three runs, two RBI and a walk. Takeuchi finished 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBI, and Walter Urbon chipped in two RBI.

On the mound, Andrew Johnson worked 7.1 innings, allowing nine hits and three runs while striking out four to earn the workhorse start. Rohan Kasanagottu closed it out with 1.2 hitless innings and two strikeouts.

For Texas A&M, Grahovac went 2-for-4 with a home run and an RBI, and Hacopian finished 1-for-4 with his first-inning homer and an RBI. Duer added two hits, including his eighth-inning triple, and Ben Royo went 2-for-4.

## What It Means

The Trojans' offense clicked from the opening pitch, producing 14 runs on the strength of multiple extra-base hits and a balanced lineup in which five different players drove in two or more runs. The complete performance — anchored by Johnson's deep start on the mound — gives USC a decisive road win.

For Texas A&M, the loss came despite home-run production from Grahovac and Hacopian and a multi-hit effort from Duer and Royo. The Aggies were unable to slow USC's bats after the early back-and-forth, and the bullpen was tested across a high-scoring afternoon. Texas A&M will look to regroup and tighten up on the mound moving forward in the 2026 season.

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*Original article: [SEC Baseball: USC Trojans Defeats Texas A&M Aggies 14-3](https://secscouts.com/news/usc-trojans-defeat-texas-am-aggies-14-3-sec-baseball) — SEC Scouts*