A Class AA Springfield club that set franchise records for most wins in a single season and recorded the longest winning streak in team history claimed its first Texas League crown in over a decade Wednesday night.

Springfield’s lineup jumped out to a three-run lead in the first inning over Midland to begin a winner-take-all Game 3 in the Texas League Championship Series and did not let its offensive flurry up. The S-Cards combined for 19 hits in a 13-1 title-clinching win against the Athletics’ Class AA affiliate at Momentum Bank Ballpark in Midland, Texas.

The Texas League title win marks Springfield’s first league championship since 2012. It bookends a season during which Springfield won a franchise-best 88 games and set a franchise mark with an 11-game winning streak.

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