ARLINGTON – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros baseball team launched four home runs among a season-high 20 hits to beat the UT Arlington Mavericks 11-2 on Saturday at Clay Gould Ball Park.
Junior
Adrian Torres, sophomore Vela alum
Isaac Lopez, senior
Roberto Gonzalez and graduate student
Montclair Cain hit the home runs.
Torres' home run was his second, a solo shot off
Connery Peters (1-4) in the second to give the Vaqueros (24-17, 10-10 WAC) a 1-0 lead.
In the third, Lopez hit a 1-out home run, his ninth of the season. Then, after a single by graduate student
Brandon Pimentel, Gonzalez hit his fourth home run of the season to put the Vaqueros up 4-0.
Cain's home run, his fifth, was a 2-run shot in the seventh to make the score 8-1.
The Vaqueros also scored in the fifth on a Torres RBI-single, the sixth on a Lopez RBI-single, the seventh on an RBI-single by senior
Zerek Saenz, and the eighth on an RBI-double by sophomore
Steven Lancia and a Torres RBI-single.
Four Vaqueros had 3-hit games, including Torres, who drove-in a career-high tying three runs while scoring once, Lopez, who also walked, drove-in two runs and scored one, Lancia, who drove-in a run and scored a run, and Saenz, who drove-in one run.
In total, seven Vaqueros had multi-hit games, as Cain finished 2-for-4 with a walk, two RBI and a career-high tying three runs scored, Gonzalez, who drove-in two runs and scored twice, and junior
Kade York, who doubled and scored.
All nine Vaqueros had hits, as Pimentel and junior PSJA alum
Jacob Sanchez each went 1-for-5 with a run scored. Pimentel extends his hitting streak to 19 games, during which time he's hitting .430 (37-for-86) with 24 runs scored.
The Mavericks (22-20, 12-8 WAC) broke through against junior
Angelo Cabral (8-1) in the fourth on a 2-out RBI-single by
Tyson Pointer that made the score 4-1.
Steven Saunders added a 2-out RBI-single in the seventh to make the score 9-2.
Cabral pitched a career-high 7.0 innings, striking out four while allowing six hits and two walks.
Junior
Zach Tjelmeland pitched two scoreless innings, striking out one, to close out the game.
UTRGV and UT Arlington close out this three-game series on Sunday at 1 p.m. Fans can watch domestically on
ESPN+ or internationally via
WAC International.
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