When the senior catcher blasted a dinger over the right-field wall at Disch-Falk Field on Saturday in Austin, Texas, he hit his way to the top of the Kansas State record books. It was his 17th homer of the season, and no one else in program history has hit that many in a single season.

The Kansas State baseball team will try to survive an NCAA Tournament elimination game Saturday against Houston Christian. Follow live updates here.

Houston Christian's first NCAA baseball tournament since 2015 came to an end on Saturday with a 7-4 loss to Kansas State. The Huskies, who finished sixth in the Southland Conference regular season but won the postseason tournament,