SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) baseball team fell to UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) 4-2 in the opening game of a three-game series on Friday at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
 
Junior Chase Adams (4-2) went the distance for UTRGV (16-14), striking out five while allowing seven hits and one walk in a career-high eight innings.
 
Adams never allowed more than one run in an inning, as Michael McAdoo hit an RBI-single in the second, Tommy Jew hit an RBI-double in the third, and Sam Cohen and Arnabu Smith homered to right in the sixth and eighth innings, respectively.
 
Two UTRGV batters recorded multi-hit games, as sophomore Coleman Grubbs and junior Anthony Gomez each had two hits. One of Grubbs' hits drove-in Gomez in the third.
 
That was all against UCSB (12-13-1) starter Jack Dashwood (2-4), who struck out four while allowing seven hits and two walks in six innings.
 
UTRGV pushed across another run in the ninth on a two-out pinch-hit single by junior Aaron Dees before Shea Barry recorded the final out for his second save.
 
UTRGV and UCSB play the middle game of this series on Saturday at 4 p.m.

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