Andrew Garcia 2-26-16
Raziel Sanchez
Andrew Garcia (#24)
7
Winner UT Rio Grande Valley UTRGV 4-7
3
Lamar University LU 8-4
Winner
UT Rio Grande Valley UTRGV
4-7
7
Final
3
Lamar University LU
8-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UT Rio Grande Valley UTRGV 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 7 10 1
Lamar University LU 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 2

W: Garcia, Andrew (1-1) L: Martinez, F. (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Evens Series at Lamar

BEAUMONT – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team won the middle game of a three-game series with the Lamar University Cardinals 7-3 on Saturday at Vincent-Beck Stadium.
 
Junior Jose Garcia led the Vaqueros (4-7) offensively by going 3-for-4 with two doubles, an RBI and two runs scored. Junior Austin Oakes went 2-for-5 with a double, a career-high three RBI and a run scored. All three RBI came in the eighth when, with the game tied at 2, Oakes hit a bases-clearing double to put the Vaqueros on top. One batter later, Oakes scored on a sacrifice fly by senior Correy Davis to make it 6-2.
 
That made a winner of junior Andrew Garcia (1-1), who pitched a complete game, allowing three runs (two earned) on 11 hits (eight singles) while striking out four. He threw 82 of his 121 (67.8 percent) pitches for strikes.
 
The Vaqueros took their first lead right away, as after junior Joseph Collazo was plunked to start the first, Garcia doubled and senior Cole Loncar came up with an RBI-single to make it 1-0.
 
The Cardinals (8-4) responded in the second when Robin Adames reached on a two-out error, leading to a single by Reid Russell and an RBI-single by Ryan Erickson to tie the game.
 
The Cardinals took the lead in the third on a one-out double by Bryndan Arrendondo that made it 2-1.
 
In the mean time, Jayson McKinley retired 13-straight Vaqueros and 14 of 15, but Collazo led off the sixth by reaching on an error and Garcia doubled to left-center to tie the game at 2.
 
McKinley lasted six innings, scattering four hits while striking out four.
 
Fernando Martinez (1-2) took over and pitched a scoreless seventh, but walked Collazo to lead off the eighth. Enrique Oqunedo came in and plunked Garcia and walked Loncar, setting up Oakes' double.
 
The Vaqueros added a run in the ninth when Loncar grounded into a double play with runners on the corners and nobody out.
 
The Cardinals got the run back with two outs in the ninth on a Chaneng Valera double.
 
The Vaqueros and Cardinals play then rubber game of this series on Sunday at 1 p.m.

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