EDINBURG, Texas – No. 10 Texas Baseball picked up a 7-2 win over UTRGV on Tuesday at UTRGV Baseball Stadium. The Longhorns (31-13) made their first journey to the Rio Grande Valley in 51 years and performed in entrance of a UTRGV document crowd of 6,418.
Zane Morehouse made his first profession begin for the Longhorns and pitched 5 2/3 innings, permitting only one run on two hits. He didn’t enable a success till the sixth inning and confronted the minimal by way of the primary 5 frames. He completed with six strikeouts and picked up his first win as a Longhorn
Ivan Melendez went 2-for-4 with three RBI to guide the Longhorns offensively, whereas Skyler Messinger was 2-for-4 with two doubles and one run scored.
The Longhorns scored the primary run of the sport to take a 1-0 lead within the high of the second. Messinger hit a one-out double and Kimble Schuessler drove him in with an RBI single up the center.
Texas added 4 extra runs within the fourth on a slew of free passes by UTRGV pitching. Schuessler walked, Mitchell Daly was hit by a pitch and Trey Faltine walked to load the bases. Douglas Hodo III drove in a run with a bases loaded stroll earlier than an error allowed one other run to attain. Melendez then drove in two runs with a single by way of the left facet of the infield to make the rating 5-0.
The Vaqueros bought their first hits and run of the sport within the backside of the sixth. Dylan Campbell was capable of assist restrict the injury by making a few sturdy throws from the outfield to remove runners on the bases.
The Longhorns scratched out two extra runs within the eighth inning to increase the result in 7-1. The first run of the inning scored on an error earlier than Melendez hit one other RBI single to drive in Faltine.
Lebarron Johnson Jr. pitched an ideal inning of reduction with one strikeout, whereas Travis Sthele pitched 1 2/3 in reduction. Aaron Nixon, a McAllen native, recorded the ultimate out of the ballgame.
The victory additionally marked the four-hundredth profession win for head coach David Pierce, whose total document is now 400-216 in his eleventh season as a head coach.
The Longhorns will return house this weekend to host Oklahoma State, beginning Friday at 6:30 p.m.