| April 30, 2006
Contact: Carlos Valdez III. UTSA baseball completes sweep over SFA with 4-3 win Box Score
SAN ANTONIO – Junior Blake Brannon (right) tossed a gem to complete the sweep over Stephen F. Austin with a 4-3 win in Southland Conference action Sunday afternoon at Roadrunner Field.
With the win, UTSA upped its record to 29-14 overall and 15-6 in SLC play. SFA dropped to 8-39 on the year and 3-21 in league play.
Sophomore Marshal Davis led UTSA’s offense with two hits on the day, while junior Ryan Saltzgaber drove in two of UTSA’s four runs. Seven different Roadrunners collected one hit apiece.
Brannon picked up his fourth win of the season and improved to 4-6 on the year. He tossed eight-plus innings, allowed three runs off six hits, struck out six Lumberjacks and walked five. Senior Noah Tritz collected his eighth save of the season. He struck out the one batter he faced in the ninth.
In the fourth inning, SFA got on the scoreboard first with two runs. Junior Chris Smith led off with a walk, then advanced to third off junior Jeremy Arterburn’s double to left center. Freshman Zachary Gardner plated the first run with a sacrifice fly to center field. Freshman Ryan Sinclair’s RBI single scored Arterburn, giving the Lumberjacks a 2-0 lead.
UTSA scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. Seniors J.R. Voyles and Lee Todesco reached with back-to-back singles. Voyles and Todesco moved to second and third on a successful double steal attempt. Voyles scored the Runners' first run of the game on a wild pitch. The Roadrunners loaded the bases when freshman Michael Rockett was hit by a pitch and Zach Etheredge drew a walk. Saltzgaber (left) gave UTSA a 3-2 lead with his single to left center to score Todesco and Rockett. SFA’s slugger Steven Hill knotted the game at 3-all with one swing of the bat in the fifth.
The Runners then sealed the game in the eighth inning when freshman James Keithley led off the inning with a double to left. Etheredge’s groundout to second moved Keithley 90-feet closer to home. SFA’s catcher was not able to handle a pitched cleanly which got away from him and allowed for Keithley to score the winning run.
Brannon retired first two batters in the top of the ninth via a strike out and fly out in foul territory. After back-to-back walks, Tritz entered the game and sealed the win by fanning Hill.
UTSA returns to Roadrunner Field this Tuesday, May 2, with a double header against future SLC opponent Texas A&M-Corpus Christ at noon.
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