March 19, 2010
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - UT Arlington All-American Michael Choice hit his seventh home run of the season in a losing effort while the Mavericks fell 8-2 against UTSA in the series opener Friday night at Roadrunner Field.
UT Arlington (7-11, 1-3 SLC) drops its third straight in conference play while UTSA (9-7, 1-3 SLC) won its first in league play in a game that lasted only two hours and one minute.
UT Arlington starter Jason Mitchell pitched his first complete game of the season in the loss and falls to 2-2 on the season. Mitchell struck out five with one walk while allowing eight runs on nine hits.
Casey Selsor (3-1) was the winning pitcher tossing his first career complete game while giving up two runs on six hits with four strikeouts and four walks allowed.
A pitchers dual for most of the contest, the Mavericks scored the game's first run on an RBI single up the middle by Jordan Vaughn in the third inning. UTSA answered in the bottom of the inning with three runs, all coming on Ryan Rummel's double down the left field line.
UTSA increased its lead to 5-1 on right fielder Jason Mohn's two-run homer in the fifth inning.
Choice brought the Mavs back within three runs of UTSA hitting his 25th career home run with a solo shot to left field on a 1-0 pitch to lead off the sixth inning.
That would be as close as the Mavericks would come as both teams went scoreless in the seventh inning before the Roadrunners scored three runs on back-to-back home runs in the eighth. Ryan Dalton (two-run homer) and Jeff Taliaferro hit consecutive pitches over the left field fence to give UTSA an 8-2 lead.
Sophomore first baseman Jordan Vaughn went 2-for-4 and was the only UTA player with a multi-hit game. Choice, who leads the Mavericks batting .379 with seven home runs and 20 RBI, went 1-for-4 while reaching base safely for the 30th consecutive game.
UT Arlington and UTSA play game two of their Southland Conference series at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 20, at Roadrunner Field. The Mavericks will start right-handed pitcher Rett Varner (1-2) while UTSA is expected to start lefty Matt Crocker (2-1).
