SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley baseball team fell to Sacramento State 13-6 on Friday at John Smith Field.
 
UTRGV (26-27, 7-16 WAC) can still clinch a spot in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Tournament with a win in the series finale and a Utah Valley win at Seattle U (8-15 WAC). Both games start at 2 p.m. on Saturday. UTRGV holds the tiebreaker over Seattle U by virtue of winning the season series 2-1.
 
UTRGV scored individual runs in each of the first three innings, going up 1-0 on a fielder's choice by sophomore Anthony Gomez and 2-1 on a single by senior Victor Garcia Jr. in the second before pulling within 6-3 on a double by junior Ivan Estrella in the third.
 
After Sacramento State (27-27, 11-12 WAC) scored four runs in the fourth, senior Jose Garcia hit an RBI-single, Gomez stole home as part of a double-steal, and Estrella came up with an RBI-groundout to bring UTRGV within 10-6.
 
Sacramento State got one of those runs back in the sixth on a Kody Reynolds home run to make it 11-6.
 
Trent Goodrich came up with a two-out, two-run single in the seventh to make it 13-6.
 
That made a winner of Ty Fox (3-1), who pitched 2.1 hitless innings of relief.
 
Sacramento State got on the board against senior Andrew Garcia (4-3) on a Josh Outman RBI-groundout in the first.
 
Sacramento State added five runs in the second on RBI-singles by Ian Dawkins, Goodrich and Vinny Esposito and a two-run triple by Outman.
 
In the fourth, Goodrich and Esposito came up with RBI-singles. And then, after a Reynolds sacrifice fly, PJ Floyd hit an RBI-single to give Sacramento State a 10-3 lead.
 
Goodrich finished 4-for-5 with four RBI and two run scored.

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