| April 26, 2005
Contact: Matt Schabert (210) 458-4930 Roadrunners knock off Texas A&M, 6-3 Box Score
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The University of Texas at San Antonio baseball team got timely hitting and scoring and another solid pitching outing from sophomore Steven Vasquez as the Roadrunners knocked off Texas A&M, 6-3, before 4,949 fans at Olsen Field Tuesday night.
The Roadrunners improved to 20-25, winning for the first time at Olsen Field since the 2000 season. The Aggies fell to 26-19-1 on the year.
Vasquez tossed seven complete innings and only walked one while allowing eight hits to improve to 2-1 on the year, winning his second consecutive start. Noah Tritz came on in the eighth and closed out the final two innings.
The Aggies got on the board in the first inning via a single by leadoff hitter Cliff Pennington and an RBI ground out to second from Justin Pouk. Pennington stole second and moved to third on a ground out to the pitcher.
The Roadrunners answered right back in the second inning as senior Chris Lewis led off with his sixth home run of the season over the left field fence. The 23rd round-tripper of his two-year career allowed Lewis to leapfrog former UTSA standout Mark Schramek and into fifth place in career homers. The Roadrunners then grabbed a 2-1 lead as sophomore Michael McKennon, who had singled earlier and moved to third on a pair of Aggie errors, scored on freshman Phillip Allen’s sacrifice fly.
UTSA added to its lead in the fourth with another pair of scores to take a 4-1 lead. Junior Lee Todesco led off with his fifth double, and Allen reached on a hit-by-pitch. After junior J.R. Voyles walked, senior Stephen Holdren plated both Todesco and Allen with his ninth double to the wall in left field. The Aggies trimmed the Roadrunner advantage to 4-2 in the bottom of the inning as they loaded the bases off Vasquez and scored on a sacrifice fly.
The Aggies loaded the bases on two occasions in the fifth inning, but Vasquez was able to work through it with no damage as he picked off catcher Lee Harughty at second and got Ryan Hill to foul out behind the plate to end the inning.
The Roadrunners increased their margin in the sixth with two more runs. Danielson and Voyles walked to lead off and then stole second and third. Danielson made it 5-2 on junior Ryan Crew’s ground out, while Voyles scored the sixth run on an RBI single from Holdren.
Texas A&M grabbed one run back in the eighth inning on an RBI-ground out off Tritz to make a 6-3 Roadrunner lead.
McKennon led UTSA by going 2-for-3 and now has gone 4-for-5 in his last two games. Holdren was 2-for-4, while Crew extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a double in the eighth as the Roadrunners had nine safeties. Ryan Hill and Lee Harughty collected two hits each to lead the Aggies, who had 11 hits.
The Roadrunners travel to Natchitoches, La., this weekend for a three-game conference series at Northwestern State. Game one is set for 6:30 p.m. Friday at Brown-Stroud Field.
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