SAN MARCOS – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) baseball team fell to Texas State 11-9 on Wednesday at Bobcat Ballpark.
 
Three UTRGV (18-15) players had multi-hit games, led by senior Joseph Collazo, who went 3-for-3 with a double, two walks, an RBI and a run scored. Junior Cris Castillo finished 2-for-6 with an RBI and a run scored while freshman Tyler Torres went 2-for-4 with an RBI.
 
UTRGV struck right away, loading the bases with two outs in the first to set-up a two-run single by senior Victor Garcia Jr.
 
Texas State (19-11) took the lead in the bottom of the inning, though, when Theodore Hoffman hit a three-run home run.
 
UTRGV loaded the bases again in the second, setting up a run-scoring walk by senior Austin Siener and a Collazo RBI-infield single to make it 4-3.
 
Texas State tied the game in the bottom of the inning on an error, and then took the lead in the third against junior George Lamb (0-1) on another error.
 
Texas State scored two more unearned runs in the fourth on a Jonathan Ortega single and a Ryan Newman sacrifice fly to make it 7-4.
 
Brandon Courville (2-2) kept UTRGV off the board for four innings of relief, but with one out in the sixth, Castillo singled through the right side with runners in scoring position to make it 7-5.
 
Torres came up with an RBI-single in the seventh to make it a one-run game, but a two-out single by Luke Sherley in the bottom of the inning put Texas State up 8-6.
 
Ortega pushed Texas State's lead to 11-6 in the eighth with a bases-clearing double.
 
In the ninth, freshman La Joya alum Anibal Leal lifted a sacrifice fly before UTRGV loaded the bases with two outs. A pair of errors allowed UTRGV to pull within two and put the go-ahead run on base, but Siener flied out to end the game.
 
UTRGV resumes Western Athletic Conference play on Friday at 7 p.m. when it opens a three-game series at New Mexico State.

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