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EDINBURG – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley baseball team, which is receiving votes in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association (NCBWA) poll, fell to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) 14-3 on Saturday at UTRGV Baseball Stadium.
UTRGV (4-3) scored all of its runs in the ninth, as junior
Roger Varela III scored on a wild pitch and senior
Isaac Gonzalez and junior
Anthony Gomez scored on an error.
Five UTRGV relievers pitched scoreless innings, including senior
George Lamb, juniors
Trevelle Hill and
Ben Butler and freshmen
Adrian Gonzales and
Max Balderrama Jr. Gonzales struck out one in the third. Hill threw eight of his nine pitches for strikes, striking out one in a perfect fifth. In his UTRGV debut, Butler struck out three of the four batters he faced in the sixth. Balderrama struck out two in the eighth. Lamb struck out one in the ninth.
Senior
Austin Siener and sophomore
Coleman Grubbs each had two hits for UTRGV.
UIC (5-1) sent 12 batters to the plate in the first, scoring seven runs (six earned) on seven hits and an error against senior PSJA alum
Jorge Flores (1-1).
Scott Ota hit a two-run double,
Aaron Ackerman drove-in a run with a single,
Derrick Patrick scored two with a single, and
David Becker came up with a sacrifice fly.
UIC scored four more runs in the second thanks in-part to RBI-singles by
Joshua Figueroa and
Thomas Norton and an RBI-groundout by
Dylan Gilbert.
Norton added a two-run home run in the fourth and then Ackerman hit an RBI-double in the seventh to complete the scoring.
That made a winner of
Ryan Campbell (2-0), who pitched seven shutout innings, striking out eight while scattering five hits and two walks.
UTRGV and UIC wrap up the series on Sunday at 12 p.m. Fans can receive free general admission by helping UTRGV strike out hunger through the donation of five non-perishable food items. As a thank you, donors will receive free general admission. All donations benefit the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley. Gates open at 11 a.m.
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