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UT Arlington UTA 17-25
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Winner Houston HOU 21-21
UT Arlington UTA
17-25
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Final
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Houston HOU
21-21
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UT Arlington UTA 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 7 12 0
Houston HOU 4 4 1 1 2 1 0 4 X 17 20 1

W: Citelli, Cade (3-1) L: Norris, Zach (4-0)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Marshall Wolfe

Mavs Drop Game One Of The Series Against The Cougars

HOUSTON – The UT Arlington Maverick baseball team dropped the first game of the weekend series against the Houston Cougars 17-7 at the Don Sanders Field at the Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park this Friday.
 
GAME FLOW
The Cougars took control of the game early with 4-run first inning after the Mavs were unable to score in the top of the 1st inning after Ryan Black and Tyson Pointer got on base with a single and Parker Airhart loaded the bases with a base on balls.
 
The Mavs got on the board after JD Moreno brought home Garrison Berkley with an RBI double to cut the Cougars lead to 4-1, however, Houston accumulated 4 more runs in the bottom of the 2nd inning to jump out to an 8-1 lead and increased its lead to 9-1 after scoring another run in the bottom of the 3rd inning.
 
Houston plated its 10th run of the game in the bottom of the 4th to take a 9-run lead but was quickly cut down to 8 after Tyson Pointer plated Cason Gregory with an RBI double for his second hit of the night. The Cougars plated another 2 runs in the bottom of the 5th to increase its lead to 12-2.
 
The Cougars increased its lead to 13-2 in the bottom of the 6th, but the Mavs answered back in the top of the 7th inning after Ryan Ellis roped an RBI double to left-center field to plate Moreno and Black to chip away at the Cougar lead. Ellis was able to advance home after a throwing error from Houston to cut the deficit to 13-5.
 
The Mavs got the offense rolling in the top of the 8th inning after recording three-straight doubles to score 2 runs. Gregory started the streak off and was brought home by Moreno, who was then brought home by Black to decrease the Cougars lead to 13-7. The Cougars plated 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th to jump out to a 17-7 lead, which is where the game stayed until the final.
 
 
PITCHING PROFILE
 
Zach Norris got his 11th start of the season and rang up a batter on strikes throughout his 2.0 innings pitched.
 
Collin Horton came is as relief to start the 3rd inning and was able to strike out 3 Cougars throughout his 3.0 innings of work. The transfer from New Orleans faced 15 batters and allowed no walks and 6 hits.
 
Sam Collins came in for relief in the 6th inning and was able to strikeout 2 out of the 11 batters he faced in his 2.0 innings of work. The Azle, Texas native allowed no walks in his outing.
 
BOX SCORE NUGGETS
  • Four Mavericks had multi-hit games in the loss today, with Cason Gregory, Tyson Pointer, Ryan Black and JD Moreno all snagging at least 2 hits in the game. Moreno was able to go 3-for-5 with 2 doubles and 2 RBI.
  • The Mavs pumped three straight doubles to start off the top of the 8th inning and scored 2 runs in the frame.
  • This was the 17th time the Mavs put up double-digit hits with 12 in the game. The Mavs are now 12-5 in games when the squad puts up 10 or more hits.
 
ON DECK
The Mavs will face off against Houston in the second game of the non-conference weekend series tomorrow, Apr. 27, at 6:30 pm at the Don Sanders Field.
 
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