| May 2, 2005
Contact: Matt Schabert (210) 458-4930 Roadrunners close non-conference schedule at Baylor Complete Release | Live Stats (click on Gametracker link)
Listen Live SAN ANTONIO - The University of Texas at San Antonio baseball team will close the non-conference portion of its schedule Tuesday night, May 3, at 10th-ranked Baylor. Game time at Ferrell Field is set for 6 p.m. UTSA Roadrunners (21-27)
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#10/11 Baylor Bears (30-17)
May 3
Tuesday, May 3 - 6 p.m. • Ferrell Field
First Pitch
• The Roadrunners step out of conference play tonight against 10th-ranked Baylor.
• After tonight’s contest, the Roadrunners will be idle for the next 10 days before hosting Lamar on May 13-15.
• UTSA is 1-4 against the Big XII this season, with a victory last Tuesday at Texas A&M.
• UTSA is 8-10 on the road this year and 3-5 in non-conference road games.
• Steven Vasquez has won two consecutive starts and has allowed just seven total hits in those two games.
Roadrunner Tidbits
UTSA enters the game winners of eight of its last 12...UTSA will look to get the bats going again tonight after hitting just .184 over the weekend...The Roadrunners are tied for fourth place with Lamar with six league games remaining before the conference tournament...UTSA Assistant Coach Jim Blair played at Baylor and still holds the Big XII record for a 31-game hitting streak...Junior Ryan Crew had a 12-game hitting streak snapped Sunday but still leads UTSA with a .354 average...The Roadrunners now rank fifth in the league in htting after spending much of February and March ranked 10th...UTSA is hitting .275 with two outs in an inning...Lefthanders are hitting just .182 off starter Steven Vasquez...With a school-record 23 triples, the Roadrunners continue to rank in the top ten in the NCAA stats for triples per game...Of senior Chris Lewis’ 41 hits, 25 have been for extra bases...The Roadrunner pitching staff has given up only 30 home runs in 2005...Crew has 20 multi-hit games to lead UTSA, while sophomore Michael McKennon has 10 multi-RBI games to pace the Roadrunners.
A-Rod Moves Into Top Five
Senior Aaron Rodriguez recorded a career high eight strikeouts Friday night, which moved him onto the top five list for all-time strikeouts at UTSA with 174. The senior from Rosenberg, Texas, is now 4-0 in Southland Conference games and sports a 6-3 overall record with a team-best 3.77 ERA. He needs just five more strikeouts to move to fourth place all-time.
Scouting the Bears
Baylor is 30-17 overall and ranked 10th in this week’s Baseball America national poll. The Bears are coming off winning two of three this weekend against Texas Tech. Josh Ford leads the team with a .324 average and five home runs. Kyle Reynolds leads the hitters with eight homers on the year. Starter Jeff Mandel leads the pitching staff with a 1.19 ERA. He is 1-0 and pitched three innings in the previous meeting with UTSA.
Up Next
The Roadrunners have this weekend off for final exams, then return next weekend, May 13-15, to host Lamar in a three-game series.
A Look at the Series
The Bears lead the all-time series with UTSA 21-2 and have taken a win in 19 consecutive meetings. UTSA’s last victory in the series came in 1994, 7-6. Earlier in the season, the Bears edged the Roadrunners 4-2 at Wolff Stadium. The Roadrunners have only been able to score 16 total runs in the last nine meetings with Baylor.
Northwestern State Rewind
Senior Sean Danielson got things started for UTSA with a leadoff home run and senior Aaron Rodriguez pitched his third complete of the year in a 2-1 victory on Friday. Luck changed for UTSA on Saturday as the Demons smashed two multi-RBI homers in the middle innings en route to a 9-3 win Saturday. On Sunday, the Roadrunners scored four runs in the first inning but then watched the Demons peck away at the lead before finally scoring the go-ahead run in the eighth for a 5-4 win.
Proud Father
UTSA Associate Head Coach Jason Marshall, who coaches first base, did not attend the game last Tuesday’s game at his alma mater, Texas A&M. But, Marshall had a pretty valid reason. He was with his wife Ashleigh, who gave birth to the couple’s second child, Jackson Mark Marshall, that evening. The couple also has a one-year old son, Cooper Kelly. Marshall joined the team Saturday at Northwestern State.
Leading off
Senior Sean Danielson, UTSA’s leadoff batter, has proven to be the right man in that spot this year. He is hitting .314 overall in his first year at UTSA since transferring from Kansas State. Danielson also boasts the longest hitting streak of any player this year at 12 games, which was snapped last Tuesday at Texas A&M. In those 12 games, Danielson hit .467 (21-of-45). He also leads the squad with 13 stolen bases and has made eight assists from his center field position.
Crew Charging Up the Record Charts
Junior Ryan Crew continues to make an assault on the UTSA record books in just his third season. He now ranks fourth all-time with 205 career hits. He also has moved into a tie on the career doubles list with 40 and needs only two more to take sole possession of fourth. In RBIs, Crew now ranks 10th with 96 and needs just seven to move to ninth. In home runs, his total of 17 ranks him tied for eighth all-time, while his total of seven triples puts him fourth on that stat chart.
Thank Goodness It’s Friday
Friday’s have been the most successful day of the week for the Roadrunners in 2005. UTSA is 8-3 on Friday’s and has won six consecutive conference series openers on Fridays. Also, in the last five Friday games, the Roadrunners have surrendered just eight runs.
Breakout Season
Junior J.R. Voyles is having a breakout year for UTSA and is hitting .329 and ranks second on the team with four homers and tied for third with 25 RBIs. He already has posted 15 multi-hit games and seven multi-RBI games in 2005. Coming into the season, Voyles was a lifetime .253 hitter with just five career home runs. he also has an eight-game hitting streak to his credit.
Good Thieves
UTSA has been successful on the base paths this season with 46 stolen bases in 45 games. The Roadrunners are 46-of-60 (.431 pct.) overall. Senior Sean Danielson leads the way with 13, while junior J.R. Voyles has eight and Ryan Crew has seven. Ryan Saltzgaber has five. In fact, Voyles has been thrown out only once in his career during his freshman year. In 2002, he was 3-for-4. In 2004, he went 8-for-8, and he is 8-for-8 this season, making him 19-for-20 in his three-year Roadrunner career.
Touch ‘Em All, Chris
Senior Chris Lewis drilled his team-leading seventh home run of the year last Tuesday at texas A&M and now has 23 in his two-year UTSA career to rank fifth all-time. Lewis, who has hit three of UTSA’s last four dingers, led the SLC with 16 round-trippers in 2004.
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