| April 29, 2005 Rain delay doesn't faze Roadrunners; UTSA edges first-place Northwestern State, 2-1 Box Score The Roadrunners, who improved to 12-7 in the Southland Conference and 21-25 overall, also took sole possession of second place in the SLC thanks to losses by Lamar, Texas-Arlington and Texas State. The Demons fell to 32-15 and 15-4 in the conference. Rodriguez, who hurled his third complete game of the season, recorded a career high eight strikeouts and seemed to only get stronger after the delay caused by severe thunderstorms moving across the area, getting the final two outs on strikeouts. The senior southpaw improved to 4-0 in conference games and 6-3 overall and moved into fifth place in career punchouts at UTSA with 174. Rodriguez went toe-to-toe with NSU starter Daniel Lonsberry, who allowed just five hits. Lonsberry, however, surrendered both Roadrunner runs to fall for the first time in five conference decisions. Both starting pitchers returned to the mound after the delay in the top of the sixth inning. Senior centerfielder and leadoff hitter Sean Danielson lifted the Roadrunners to a quick 1-0 lead in the first inning as he belted the third pitch from Lonsberry over the right field wall for his third career home run. The Demons countered with a single tally in the bottom of the inning. Rusty Jones, Bryan Morgan and Blake Jones singled to load the bases for Bobby Barbier. Barbier lifted a sacrifice fly to left field to score Rusty Jones. Rodriguez gave up a leadoff single in the second inning but then allowed just two hits and got seven of the eight strikeouts in the final seven innings. In the eighth, Danielson walked with one out and stole second. On a 1-2 Lonsberry offering, Crew extended his hitting streak to 11 games with an RBI single up the middle. The throw from centerfield appeared to beat Danielson to the plate but catcher Marty Dewees could not handle the high bounce, and Danielson slid in under the tag. Danielson, Crew, Michael McKennon, Ryan Saltzgaber and Phillip Allen all had a hit apiece for UTSA. Rusty Jones went 2-for-4 to lead the Demons. The two teams will play game two of a three-game series tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. at Brown-Stroud Field. -UTSA- |