RIO GRANDE VALLEY – Redshirt junior Deryk Serbantez and graduate student Kevin Palm combined to pitch The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros baseball team's second-straight one-hitter in a 10-0 victory in seven innings over the Northern Colorado Bears to complete the sweep of the doubleheader on Friday at the UTRGV Baseball Stadium. 
 
Additionally, the UTRGV Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced that Saturday's game with Northern Colorado, which was slated to start at 1 p.m., will now start at 4 p.m. due to inclement weather in the forecast. 
 
The combined one-hitter is the 40^th in program history after graduate student Kevin Stevens pitched a complete game one-hitter in the first game of the doubleheader. 
 
Serbantez (2-1) allowed the only hit to Northern Colorado (11-31, 7-19 WAC) in the first inning before retiring the next 13 batters he faced. Serbantez pitched a career-high five innings while recording a career-high six strikeouts. 
 
Palm came in to pitch the final two innings while retiring all six batters he faced with a pair of strikeouts. 
 
The Vaqueros (26-21, 17-12 WAC) were led offensively by graduate student Coleman Grubbs and redshirt junior Freddy Rojas Jr., who each posted three hits on the night. Grubbs went 3-for-5 with two doubles and a triple while Rojas went 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored. 
 
Redshirt sophomore Angel De La Cruz got the scoring started in the bottom of the first as he delivered an RBI sacrifice fly that scored Grubbs from third giving UTRGV the 1-0 lead. 
 
In the third, the Vaqueros kept things rolling as the first four hitters reach against Northern Colorado starter Sam Leach. With runners at runners at second and third, graduate student Andy Atwood hit an RBI single making it 2-0. Rojas then followed with a two-run single before coming in to score on an RBI double by graduate student Joseph Impeduglia that pushed UTRGV's lead to 5-0. 
 
UTRGV added a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth on RBI singles by redshirt sophomore Diego Ramirez and freshman and PSJA High alum Jacob Sanchez which made it 7-0. 
 
In the bottom of the sixth, a passed ball allowed Rojas to score from third and then an RBI fielder's choice by Ramirez made the score 9-0. 
 
A throwing error in the bottom of the seventh allowed postbaccalaureate student Christian Sepulveda to score to walk it off for the Vaqueros. 
 
UTRGV Athletics is capping capacity at UTRGV Baseball Stadium at approximately 1,200 fans. Single-game tickets can be purchased online at UTRGVTickets.com. For more information about game day, visit GoUTRGV.com/game-day.
 
Fans can also watch for free online at WACDigitalNetwork.com.

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