HUNTSVILLE – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team fell to the Sam Houston Bearkats 10-7 in the middle game of a three-game series on Saturday at Don Sanders Stadium.
Junior
Brandon Pimentel was one of four Vaqueros (15-11, 5-6 WAC) with multi-hit games, going 4-for-5 with a double and two runs scored. Graduate student
Bryan Sturges went 2-for-4 with a double, three RBI and a run scored while nailing a would-be base stealer. Sturges is now 17-for-32 (.531) during an eight-game hitting streak. Graduate student
Cameron Blake went 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored. Junior
Diego Ramirez also scored twice. Graduate student
Brett Cain went 2-for-4. Graduate student
Freddy Rojas Jr. finished with two RBI.
The Vaqueros jumped on
Steven Beard (2-2) right away, as Rojas hit an RBI-single and then during the next at-bat, got caught in a rundown on a stolen base attempt to allow Pimentel to score from third.
The Bearkats (16-11, 7-4 WAC) answered against junior
Colten Davis (4-1) in the second with a two-run home run by
Walker Janek, an RBI-double by
Clayton Chadwick, and an RBI-single by
Justin Wishkoski to make the score 4-2.
Chadwick added another RBI-single in the fourth and then
Easton Loyd scored on a wild pitch in the fifth to put the Bearkats up 6-2.
The Vaqueros answered with three runs in the top of the sixth, as Sturges hit an RBI-double, Rojas lifted a sacrifice fly, and sophomore PSJA alum
Jacob Sanchez hit an RBI-groundout to make the score 6-5.
Chadwick came up with a two-run double in the bottom of the inning to make the score 8-5.
The Vaqueros got one back in the seventh on a Sturges RBI-single, but the Bearkats score two more with two outs in the eighth on a two-run single by Wishkoski.
Lane Lusk pitched 2.0 innings for his fourth save, allowing just a Sturges sacrifice fly in the ninth.
UTRGV and Sam Houston complete this three-game series on Sunday at 1 p.m. Fans can watch at
WACSports.com/Watch.
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