LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team beat the New Mexico State Aggies 7-2 in seven innings on Sunday at Presley Askew Field to earn a series victory, taking two out of three.
The Vaqueros (20-15) broke the game open with six runs in the fourth. With runners at the corners and nobody out, graduate student
Cameron Blake singled through the right side to bring in the first run. Juniors
Diego Ramirez and
Brandon Pimentel followed with RBI-singles to knock out
Cam Blazek (1-3). One out later, a wild pitch brought home Ramirez. Then, after graduate student
Brett Cain walked, sophomore PSJA alum
Jacob Sanchez hit a two-run triple to cap the inning with the score 6-0.
Sanchez finished 2-for-3 while Pimentel went 2-for-4.
Junior
Jesus Aldaz (4-3) racked up 10 strikeouts while allowing five singles and one walk in a career-high tying 6.0 innings for the win. After recording a 1-2-3 first inning, Aldaz allowed a leadoff single in the second. He then retired the next seven batters.
Gunner Antillon hit a one-out single in the fourth, stole second and made it to third on an error, but Aldaz responded with back-to-back strikeouts as he retired the next seven batters.
With two outs in the sixth, however, the Aggies (13-20) put two on with two out, setting up RBI-singles by
Logan Gallina and
Nolan Funke to make the score 6-2.
The Vaqueros got one of those runs back in the seventh on an RBI-groundout by graduate student
Bryan Sturges.
Junior
J.C. Ariza pitched a scoreless seventh to close out the game.
UTRGV hosts future WAC opponent Incarnate Word on $2 Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at UTRGV Baseball Stadium. General admission tickets and select concession items will be available for $2 or less. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at
UTRGVTickets.com. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Those unable to attend the game in person can watch in the United States on
ESPN+ or internationally at
WACSports.com/Watch.
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