RIO GRANDE VALLEY – Graduate student
Angelo Cabral pitched his first-career complete game shutout to lead The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros baseball team, which is receiving votes for the second week in a row in the
USA Today Coaches and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Polls, to a 10-0, 7-innings victory over the Texas Southern Tigers Tuesday at UTRGV Baseball Stadium in front of a crowd of 5,111, the fourth-largest in program history.
The Vaqueros (15-3), the No. 2 team in the NCAA RPI, are tied for the fifth-best start in program history and off to their best overall start since 1979, when they started a program record 16-1.
Cabral (2-0) retired the first 10 batters he faced and faced just one over the minimum 21 batters through a season-high 7.0 innings. He allowed three singles, but one Tiger (8-13) was caught stealing and another was erased by a double play. Cabral finished with a season-high nine strikeouts without walking anybody and throwing 53 of his 78 pitches (67.9%) for strikes.
Freshman
Cameron Carter led the Vaqueros offensively by going a career-best 3-for-4 with an RBI and a career-high tying two runs scored. Graduate student Vela alum
Isaac Lopez went 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Graduate student PSJA alum
Jacob Sanchez finished 2-for-2 with a double, a walk, a hit by pitch, an RBI, and two runs scored.
Carter and Lopez opened the third inning with singles against
Kameron Walton (0-1), putting runners on the corners. Junior
Thomas Williams hit a sacrifice fly and then sophomore
Easton Moomau hit an RBI-double. One batter after a groundout moved Moomau to third, Sanchez hit an RBI-single to put the Vaqueros up 3-0.
Carter and Lopez led off the fourth with singles as well. After a groundball advanced the runners, Moomau hit a sacrifice fly and senior
Steven Lancia hit an RBI-single to make the score 5-0.
Sanchez and junior
Rene Galván opened the fifth inning with walks. After an error loaded the bases, Carter hit an RBI-single and Williams came up with a one-out RBI-groundout to make the score 7-0.
In the sixth, Lancia and sophomore
Armani Raygoza led off with home runs to left. Sanchez followed with a double, moved to third on a fly ball, and scored on a ground ball by senior
Hank Warren to make the score 10-0.
UTRGV and Texas Southern complete this two-game series on Wicked Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at UTRGV Baseball Stadium. In honor of the hit movie and musical, Wicked, fans are encouraged to come dressed in their best costumes from Wicked with a chance to be popular by competing in the costume contest. Music from Wicked, both the movie and the musical, will be played throughout this one short day in the temporary Emerald City, giving fans the opportunity to dance through life.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased 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. Fans can find a full list of game day information at
RallyTheValley.com. Gates open at 5:30 p.m.
Fans can watch domestically on
ESPN+ or internationally via
Southland International.
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