RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team completed the three-game sweep of the Tarleton Texans with a 7-4 victory on Sunday at UTRGV Baseball Stadium.
Graduate student
Brett Cain led the Vaqueros (26-18, 12-9 WAC) offensively by going 3-for-4 with two double and three RBI. Junior
Brandon Pimentel went 2-for-4 with a double, a triple, two RBI and three runs scored.
Pimentel hit his double to leadoff the fourth against
Matthew Hickey (2-2), coming around to score on a one-out RBI single by graduate student
Freddy Rojas Jr. to tie the game at 1.
Then, with two outs in the fifth, freshman Vela alum
Isaac Lopez was plunked on a 3-2 pitch. Graduate student
Cameron Blake followed with a single to set-up a two-run triple by Pimentel. Cain followed with an RBI-double to put the Vaqueros up 4-1.
Freshman
Randy Garza started for the Vaqueros, racking up a career-high seven strikeouts in 4.0 innings of one-hit ball. Garza retired the first eight batters he faced and nine of the first 10. The lone hit came in the fourth, as with runners on the corners and one out,
Kemuel Thomas-Rivera hit an RBI-single to give the Texans (13-30, 6-15 WAC) a 1-0 lead.
Graduate student
Ricky Gerik Jr. (4-3) pitched a 1-2-3 fifth before allowing a run on a two-out single by
Jake Escalon in the sixth.
The Texans added another two-out run in the seventh on a
London Green RBI-single.
The Vaqueros responded with three runs in the bottom of the inning, as with the bases loaded and nobody out, Cain hit a two-run single and Rojas hit into an RBI-fielder's choice to make the score 7-3.
After the Texans put the first two men aboard in the ninth, Green hit an RBI-groundout to make it a three-run game, but sophomore
Zach Tjelmeland recorded the final three outs for his first-career save.
UTRGV visits UTSA, a team received votes in the latest NCBWA poll, on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Fans can watch online via
CUSA TV.
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