SAN ANTONIO – The UTSA is set to host fellow Interstate-35 institution Texas State on Tuesday night. The game comes one week after the Roadrunners visited San Marcos and dropped their second midweek game of the year to the Bobcats.
UTSA (27-13, 12-6 C-USA) goes into the midweek matchup with a 7-2 record in midweek games. The Tuesday tilt with No. 7 Texas State features two teams with solid RPI on the year. Texas State enters the game with a 47 RPI while UTSA enters the matchup with a 58 RPI.
The Roadrunners enter the midweek game coming off of a sweep of the FIU Panthers. UTSA won its fourth consecutive league series after downing FIU. UTSA's home record improved to 15-3 following the weekend sweep. UTSA outscored the Panthers 29-13 over the three-game series, earning a 12-4 win in the opener, an 8-1 win in the middle game and a 9-8 comeback win in Sunday's contest.
The Bobcats (32-9, 15-3 Sun Belt) enter the weekday matchup riding a nine-game win streak. The win streak includes back-to-back undefeated weeks from Texas State. The Bobcats earned their wins by sweeping Arkansas Little Rock, defeating the Roadrunners, sweeping UT Arlington and downing Baylor. The streak started when Texas State took game three over Georgia Southern on April 10. In their latest series, the Bobcats outscored Arkansas Little Rock 42-8 which included a game where they won 30-4.
This will be the 99th all-time meeting between the two colleges which are separated by less than an hour. Texas State owns the all-time record over UTSA, holding a 61-37 record over the Roadrunners. UTSA is 21-27 in games played in San Antonio.
Miscellaneous Notes
- UTSA enters the weekend series having the second-highest batting average (.308) in all of Conference USA and ranks 19th nationally.
- UTSA ranks first in C-USA with 434 hits, placing them tenth in the country.
- UTSA ranks third in C-USA with 197 walks drawn.
- The Roadrunners have hit 91 doubles, the 15th most in baseball ranking first in C-USA.
- UTSA has 13 triples on the year, tops in C-USA and 27th in the nation.
- UTSA's 335 runs rank 18th in college baseball and second in conference.
- UTSA is third in the nation with 30 sacrifice flies with on the season, first in C-USA.
- UTSA has the second-most RBI in the conference with 307.
- The Roadrunners are averaging 8.4 runs a game the second-most in C-USA and 18th overall.
- Pitcher Luke Malone owns the third-lowest ERA in all of Conference USA with a 1.78. That ERA ranks 19th nationally.
- Opposing batters are hitting .225 against Malone. That's the seventh-lowest opponent batting average in the conference.
- Malone has allowed the second-fewest runs (18) in Conference USA. He has only allowed 11 earned runs, the third-fewest in C-USA.
- Malone has allowed just two home runs, the second-fewest in C-USA, and 10 walks, sixth lowest in C-USA, in his 55.2 IP (which ranks top 10 in conference).
- Malone is tied for the second-most wins in C-USA with six to his name.
- Pitcher Daniel Shafer is tied for the fifth-most saves in C-USA with five.
- Sammy Diaz owns the tenth-best on-base percentage in Conference USA (.442).
- As part, Diaz has been hit by a pitch 11 times – third-most in C-USA.
- Jonathan Tapia has hit the second-most doubles in C-USA (15) and has been hit by a pitch 11 times on the year, placing him tied for third in C-USA in that category.
- Being on base has helped him score 44 runs on the year. Third most in C-USA.
- Ian Bailey has logged the fourth-most at-bats in the conference. In those at-bats he:
- Has the second-most triples of any C-USA player (3).
- Scored the sixth most runs with 42
- Ryan Flores has drawn 28 walks on the season which ranks as the sixth most in C-USA.
- Flores, Tapia and teammate Chase Keng all three in the top 10 of most sac flies by C-USA players. Flores is second in conference with six while Keng has five and Tapia has four.
- Chase Keng also ranks fifth in the conference for most RBI, having earned 42.
- Outfielder Shane Sirdashney owns the eighth-best batting average in C-USA, posting a .357.
- Sirdashney also owns the fifth-best on-base percentage with a .479.
- Sirdashney has been hit by a pitch the eighth-most times in C-USA, nine times.
- Infielder Leyton Barry has the sixth most at-bats in C-USA and has produced the seventh-most hits, totaling 56.
Weekday Information
Tuesday, April 26 at 6 p.m.
RHP, So. Ryan Ward (1-0, 4.50 ERA) vs. RHP, Sr. Trevis Sundgren (2-4, 6.23 ERA)
The game will take place at Roadrunner Field and will be streamed on CUSA TV.
UP NEXT: UTSA will take to the road and travel to Murfreesboro, Tenn. to face off with a solid MTSU team for a weekend series. The series will take place over the April 29 – May 1 weekend as all games will be played at Reece Smith Jr. Field and each game will be broadcast on CUSA TV.
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