CORPUS CHRISTI — UTSA registered 13 hits and four pitchers held Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to three runs in a 7-3 victory on Tuesday night at Chapman Field.
Five players registered multiple hits for UTSA, which improved to 5-3 on the season. Starting pitcher Steven Dressler tossed four innings of one-hit, scoreless baseball and received the no-decision. Dressler retired 12 of the 13 batters he faced.
The Roadrunners scored at least one run in each of the first five innings and continued their home run streak. Bryan Arias blasted his second homer in as many games on a first-pitch jack over the right field wall in the fifth.
Twice UTSA scored on bases loaded. In the opening frame, after Kevin Markham reached via a fielding error, a Skyler Valentine base hit and a Trent Bowles hit by pitch, Markham crossed home plate on Chris Estrada's hit by pitch.
The Roadrunners found themselves in the same situation in the ninth after a pair of base hits and a hit by pitch loaded the bases. C.J. Pickering became the fourth player to reach via hit by pitch and scored Bowles for the final run.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (1-7) notched its first hit in the fifth inning on a leadoff double by Cullen Jozwiak and prevented the shutout in the sixth inning with a pair of runs.
Jesse Baker, Bowles, Arias, Tony Beam and Aldo Buendia each recorded a pair of hits, while Arias crossed home plate twice.
Karl Craigie got the win for the Roadrunners in his two innings of work, while Chris Muller picked up the save in his 2.1 innings on the bump.
Islanders starting pitcher Aaron Rhodes took the loss in his four innings of action. He allowed five runs on eight hits.
UTSA will return to the friendly confines of Roadrunner Field this weekend when it hosts defending Pac-12 Champion Utah in a four-game series that will begin at 6 p.m. on Friday.
