Baseball Picks Up Series Win Over Northwestern State - University of Texas Arlington Athletics

Sunday, March 5

Natchitoches, LA

1 PM

University of Texas Arlington

4-7

Northwestern State

5-6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
UT Arlington	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	5	8	1
Northwestern State	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	6	0

Box Score (PDF)

Photo by: Ellman Photography

3/5/2023 7:15:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

By: Todd Cruff

NATCHITOCHES, La. – The UT Arlington baseball team clinched the series win with a 5-2 victory over Northwestern State at Brown-Stroud Field on Sunday afternoon.

The UTA bullpen was lights out, giving up only 1 hit in 4.1 innings of work, while striking out 6 NSU batters. Offensively, it was the Ryan Black and Garrison Berkley show as they accounted for all of UTA's runs.

The Mavs used 4 pitchers in the effort. Starting pitcher Caden Noah was able to give his team 4.2 quality innings of work for a no decision. He gave up 2 earned runs on 5 hits, walking 2 and striking out 3.

Noah had a no-hitter going through 3 innings of work, before running into trouble in the bottom of the fourth, giving up 1 run on 3 hits. He worked out of that inning, stranding 2 runners on base. To start the fifth, the Demons singled up the middle off Noah and then hit a double to score their last run of the game. Noah recorded 2 outs before being pulled from the game, exiting with 2 runners on base.

Matt Novis would enter the game in relief of Noah, inheriting 2 runners on base, Novis would strand them there as he would induce a pop fly to left field. He would go on to strike out the side in the bottom of the sixth inning. Novis picked up the win, moving him to 1-1 on the season.

Zach Norris went 2 innings, giving up no runs, 1 hit and striking out 2 would be batters. Connery Peters closed the door on the Demons, picking up his 3rd save of the year in 1 inning of work, giving up no hits, walking none and striking out 1.

Berkley got things started with a solo homerun to straight away left field in the top of the second inning to give the Mavs a 1-0 lead and they never looked back, never trailing in the game.

T2 | We're on the board thanks to a solo shot from .@garrison_berk

UTA 1 NSU 0#BuckEm🐎 pic.twitter.com/cGmHJ87bDW
— UTA Baseball (@UTAMavsBSB) March 5, 2023

Black followed things up by driving in Matt Cavanagh and Ben Lumsden on a double to right center field to put the Mavs up 3-0.

Berkley drove in Black on a single to left field in the top of the sixth inning to put the Mavs up 4-2. In the top of the eighth, Black added 1 more insurance run with a no doubt homerun to right field, his second in as many games.

𝓦𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱 𝓲𝓽 𝓯𝓵𝔂 👀

.@ryanblackkk launches ☝️ over the right field wall to put the Mavs up 3️⃣#BuckEm🐎 pic.twitter.com/4RTiFpFWUS
— UTA Baseball (@UTAMavsBSB) March 5, 2023

Lumsden, Tyson Pointer and Steven Saunders would round out the rest of the offense for the Mavericks, each finishing with 1 hit apiece.

NEXT UP
UTA will travel to Fort Worth to take on the 10th ranked TCU Horned Frogs for the second time this season. TCU is 7-4 on the season.

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