| Junior Trent Lockwood hit his first homer as a Roadrunner on Tuesday night. |
WACO – Baylor freshman right-hander Kendal Volz tossed three-hit ball over six innings and the offense backed him up by scoring runs in each of the first five frames, as the Bears cruised to a 9-1 victory against UTSA on Tuesday night. It was Baylor’s 12th consecutive home victory, its longest since a 15-gamer during the 2000 season.
The Bears got on the board in the top of the first when Ben Booker drew a lead off walk and came home two batters later when Dustin Dickerson laced a one-out double to left center. Baylor then added four unearned runs the following inning and another unearned tally in the third off UTSA freshman starter Ryan Proudfoot (0-1). The Bears put up a two spot in the fourth and plated a single run one inning later and never looked back.
UTSA got on the board in the sixth when junior Trent Lockwood launched his first homer as a Roadrunner over the left field fence.
Volz (1-0) allowed just one run on three hits and struck out six in his six innings of work. Reliever William Draper tossed two scoreless innings in his collegiate debut and Andy Pape closed it out in the ninth.
Dickerson led the Bears offense by going 3-for-4 with two doubles, a triple and a pair of RBIs. Raynor Campbell added two hits and scored two runs.
Proudfoot allowed eight runs – three of which were earned – on six hits in his first career start and walked four in 3.1 innings. Junior Mark Ruffin relieved him in the fourth and allowed just one run and struck out three in 2.2 innings pitched.
Junior Bradley Chovanec struck out two in a scoreless seventh and freshman Zach Calhoon fanned three in the eighth.
Offensively, junior Zach Etheredge was 2-for-3 with a pair of singles. Senior Ryan Saltzgaber and junior Greg Sillivent had the Roadrunners’ other hits of the night.
UTSA continues its four-game road trip on Thursday when it plays Houston (4-5) in the opening game of the Southwest Diamond Classic in Frisco. First pitch from Dr Pepper Ballpark is 11 a.m.