ARLINGTON, Texas – The UT Arlington baseball team (12-14, 3-3 WAC) fell to the TCU Horned Frogs (16-9, 4-2 Big 12) on Tuesday night at Clay Gould Ballpark by a final score of 14-3.
Cade Sumbler continued to swing a hot bat, smacking his fifth home run of the year and fourth in his last five games. Sumbler would finish the game with two runs driven in and one hit, the homer, in three at-bats.
Garrison Berkley finished the contest with two hits in four plate appearances and driving in one run. Berkley pushed his hitting streak to seven games, collecting 12 hits during that span.
Andrew Lucas (ND) started for the Mavericks in the loss, giving up two runs on two hits and striking out a career high four batters in 2.0 innings pitched.
Thomas Kuykendall (2.0 IP; L, 0-3),
Brayden Brooks (1.0 IP),
Gage Singer (1.0 IP),
Joe Steeber (1.0 IP),
Matt Novis (1.0 IP), and
Gray Bailey (1.0 IP) combined to toss the final innings in relief.
The Mavericks and Horned Frogs traded two runs in the 1st inning, followed up by a scoreless 2nd inning. TCU would go on to plate runs in the next four innings while UTA couldn't find a response. The Frogs would push across nine runs in that span to take a commanding 11-2 lead over the Mavs.
UTA plated one run in the bottom of the 8th while TCU would add three more runs to round out the scoring for the game.
UP NEXT
The Mavericks will return to WAC play this weekend as they travel to the west coast to take on the Redhawks of Seattle U in a three-game series beginning Friday, March 31.
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