RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team scored seven runs in the sixth to come from behind and beat the Youngstown State University Penguins 8-4 in seven innings in game one of a doubleheader on Saturday at UTRGV Baseball Stadium.
Game two gets underway at approximately 2:50 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office. Current UTRGV faculty and staff receive complimentary general admission with their employee ID. Those unable to attend the game in person can watch in the United States on
ESPN+ or internationally at
WACSports.com/Watch.
The Vaqueros (7-3) trailed 4-1 entering the bottom of the sixth but started the inning by putting two on with nobody out.
Nathan Ball (0-1) came in out of the bullpen and graduate student
DeAndre' Shelton greeted him with an RBI-single. Sophomore PSJA alum
Jacob Sanchez followed with a pinch hit three-run home run to give the Vaqueros a 5-4 lead.
Sanchez has now pinch hit twice this season, hitting a home run each time.
The Vaqueros weren't done in that inning, though, as they loaded the bases with one out to set up an RBI-groundout graduate student
Bryan Sturges and a pinch hit two-run single by freshman
Steven Lancia to make the score 8-4.
That made a winner of junior
Colten Davis (2-0), who struck out six in a career-high 7.0 innings, allowing four hits without a walk.
Davis retired the first 11 batters he faced. Then, after allowing a solo home run to
Braeden O'Shaughnessy in the fourth, Davis responded by retiring the next five batters.
With one out in the sixth, though, the Penguins (2-7) loaded the bases with one out. O'Shaughnessy hit a chopper to short. The throw to second sailed wide as two runs scored.
Padraig O'Shaughnessy followed with a sacrifice fly to make the score 4-1.
The Vaqueros initially scored with two outs in the first as Sturges as laced a double down the right field line to score junior
Brandon Pimentel.
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