ARLINGTON, Texas – The UT Arlington baseball team travel to Fort Worth to take on TCU for a midweek game on Tuesday, March 7, before starting conference play this weekend. This is the second matchup between the Horned Frogs and Mavericks on the season.
First pitch is slated for 6 pm at Lupton Stadium.
UTA NOTES
- Come into the game with a 4-7 overall record.
- UTA is coming off their first series win against Northwestern State this past weekend, in which they took 2 of 3 games.
- With 4 road wins on the year so far, the Mavs have doubled their total road victories from the previous year.
- Connery Peters has 3 total saves on the year, this has him ranked 4th nationally and leads the WAC.
- Through 11 games, UTA has yet to hit into a double play.
- Three Mavericks are hitting above .300, Ryan Black (.378), Steven Saunders (.316) and Tyson Pointer (.304).
- Pointer has 5 doubles on the season, has him ranked 67th nationally and 3rd in the WAC.
- Black is coming off a weekend in which he hit .357 with 5 hits in 14 total at-bats. He belted 2 homeruns, 1 double and drove in 6 runs.
- Garrison Berkley in the previous series against NSU led the Mavs offensively, a weekend in which he hit .364 with 4 hits in 11 at-bats. Hit his 1st homerun of the season, had 1 double, drove in 5 runs and drew 1 walk.
- Coming into the NSU series, the Mavs had 2 homeruns on the season. They doubled that in the NSU series with 4 on the weekend (2 by Black, 1 by Berkley and 1 by Ben Lumsden).
- As a team, the Mavs have been hit by pitch a total of 18 times.
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- Coming into the game with a 7-4 overall record.
- Last weekend, played in the Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic at Minute Maid Park. Went 2-1, beat Michigan and Rice, lost to Louisville.
- Have 4 players hitting over .300 on the season, Anthony Silva (.355), Austin Davis (.325), Tre Richardson (.325) and Brayden Taylor (.317).
- Have a team ERA of 3.67 for the season.
- Catcher Karson Brown threw out his 6th would be base stealer of the year. Base runners are 2-of-8 in attempting to steal against him.
- As a team, has homered in 3 straight games.
- Has 2 shutouts on the season.
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