RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team fell to the California Baptist University Lancers 8-3 on Sunday at UTRGV Baseball Stadium.
Down 8-0, the Vaqueros (9-6, 1-2 WAC) got on the board in the fifth, loading the bases on one-out walks before graduate student
Brandon Pimentel hit a sacrifice fly to make the score 8-1.
In the seventh, the Vaqueros put runners at first and second with nobody out. Pimentel singled to left. The ball was bobbled, allowing sophomore Vela alum
Isaac Lopez to score and graduate student
Montclair Cain to move to third. Cain scored on a wild pitch to make the score 8-3.
Senior
Roberto Gonzalez led the Vaqueros by going a career-best 4-for-5 with a double. Pimentel finished 2-for-4. Cain drew a career-high three walks.
The Lancers (8-7, 2-1 WAC) pushed across a pair of unearned runs against graduate student
Colten Davis (2-1) in the second, as with two on and two out,
CJ Masciel and
Julian Alvarez hit RBI-singles to make the score 2-0.
The Lancers strung together four-straight hits after the first batter was retired in the third, including RBI-singles by
Garret Ostrander and
Connor McGuire, to go up 4-0.
The Lancers added another unearned run in the fourth as, with Alvarez at second and two outs, a pitch in the dirt caused Alvarez to take off for third. Senior Vela alum
RJ Ochoa picked up the ball and took a few steps toward Alvarez, who froze. Ochoa threw to second, but the throw went into center field, allowing Alvarez to score to make the score 5-0.
That made a winner of
Jacob Wilson (5-0), who pitched 1.1 scoreless innings of relief.
UTRGV hosts Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for the South Texas Showdown, presented by Rally Credit Union, on $2 Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at UTRGV Baseball Stadium. General admission tickets and select concession items are available for $2 or less. Tickets are on sale now at
UTRGVTickets.com. Current UTRGV students receive free general admission with their student ID. All fans need to follow the clear bag policy, details of which can be found at
GoUTRGV.com/ClearBag. Gates open at 5:30 p.m.
Fans unable to attend in person can watch domestically on
ESPN+ or internationally via
WAC International.
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