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| Senior Bradley Chovanec gave UTSA 7.2 strong innings on Saturday night. |
SAN ANTONIO ? Right-handed starter Bradley Chovanec tossed 7.2 strong innings and UTSA's offense backed his effort with 16 hits and the Roadrunners cruised to an 8-2 victory on Saturday night at Wolff Stadium in game six of the UTSA Baseball Classic. UTSA improved to 1-1 with its first win of the season, while the Black Knights dropped to 0-3.
Chovanec (1-0) scattered seven hits and allowed just one run in the 91-pitch gem. The Burton native, who struck out six and walked none, retired the first nine hitters he faced and 17 of the first 19 overall, which was one over the minimum through six frames. He then wiggled out of a bases-loaded, nobody out jam to start the seventh by inducing a line out to shortstop and a inning-ending double play to third base.
The offense staked Chovanec to a 4-0 lead with single runs in the third and fourth frames and two more in the fifth. Senior first baseman Trent Lockwood's bases-clearing double to left field highlighted a four-run seventh that put the game out of reach.
All nine starters reached base with eight rapping out hits. Sophomores Tim Palincsar and Ryan Rummel led the way with three hits apiece and Lockwood drove home four runs on the night. Four other Roadrunners ? Lockwood and juniors Lance Brown, James Keithley and Aaron Powell ? also had multi-hit performances.
Army starter Ben Koenigsfield (0-1) allowed four runs on 10 hits in five-plus innings to pick up the loss. Meanwhile, Andy Ernesto and Clint Moore paced the Black Knights offensively with a pair of hits each.
UTSA continues tournament play at 1 p.m. on Sunday against No. 19 Louisiana-Lafayette. The contest will be played at Roadrunner Field and fans are encouraged to park in either Lot 1B (north of the UTSA Tennis Center) or Lot 5 (south of the Convocation Center) and walk across the UTSA Track & Field Complex due to construction going on at the facility's main parking lots.
2008 UTSA Baseball Classic
Day 2 Scoreboard (Feb. 23)
#19 Louisiana-Lafayette 4, Texas Tech 0
#40 Oral Roberts 6, #19 Louisiana-Lafayette 5
UTSA 8, Army 2
Day 3 Schedule (Feb. 24)
(home team listed second)
Texas Tech (0-1) vs. Army (0-3), 10 a.m.
#19 Louisiana-Lafayette (2-1) vs. UTSA (1-1), 1 p.m. (Roadrunner Field)
Texas Tech vs. #40 Oral Roberts (3-0), 2 p.m.