| Senior All-American was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and he extended his career-long hitting streak to 19 games. |
ARLINGTON ? Right-handed starter Andy Sauter pitched eight innings with a career-high nine strikeouts to lead UT Arlington to a 5-3 victory against UTSA (9-5, 2-2 SLC) on Saturday at Clay Gould Ballpark.
After giving up five hits in the opening two innings, Sauter (1-1)settled in, allowing just three hits the rest of the way. He improved asthe game went on, tallying a pair of strikeouts in the fifth, seventhand eighth innings.
Chad Comer drove in the tying run with a two-out single in the sixth before Michael Choice scored the eventual game-winning run with a full-count, two-out single up the middle one inning later.
Jason Mitchell pitched the ninth to pick up his first career save, as the Mavericks (6-9, 1-3 SLC) won the first of the three-game Southland Conference series. The game was postponed two days ago due to heavy rain in the Metroplex.
Three of the Mavericks' five RBIs came with two outs and UT Arlington scored its first run of the game with two outs on a single to right field by Jay Pitschka.
Matt Otteman, who was 2-for-4 with two runs to extend his hitting streak to 15 games, led off the bottom of the eighth with his first home run of the season, which gave the Mavericks an insurance run heading into the ninth.
Pitschka went 3-for-4, while Choice, Comer and Kainer had two safeties apiece.
Senior center fielder Michael Rocket, who was 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs, improved his career-best hitting streak to 19 games and sophomore right fielder Tyler Carpenter doubled to lead off the contest, which pushed his career-long stretch to 15 contests.
Roadrunners righty Red Patterson (1-2) was charged with the loss after allowing four runs on nine hits and two walks in 6.2 innings.
The series will conclude on Sunday with a noon doubleheader.
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