SAN ANTONIO -- Joshua Lamb and Hobbs Price each belted home runs and Lamb, Taylor Barber and Chris Shull each collected a three-hit games, as the black team bested the blue 11-5 in the opening of a three-game UTSA baseball intrasquad fall world series, held on Friday at Roadrunner Field.
The scrimmage is the start of a three-game wrap up to UTSA baseball's fall practice season. It pits a black squad vs. a blue squad in games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday that are to be played without fans at Roadrunner Field due to covid-19 protocols.
After the blue team took a one-run lead with a two-run top of the third, Lamb's three-run bomb in the bottom of the third gave black the lead it would not relinquish, using a six-run fifth to put the opening game out of reach from blue, who cut the lead to 11-5 with two in the ninth.
Black saw Lamb and Shull each collect three hits. Jonathan Tapia went 2-for-5 with three RBI and a walk, driving in two with a fifth-inning double. Black also got two hits from Austin Ochoa, a freshman infielder from Refugio, Texas.
Blue was led offensively by a three-hit game from Barber and two-hit games from Griffin Paxton, Nick Thornquist and Garrett Poston. Price hit a two-run, go-ahead homer in the third.
Returnees Jacorey Boudreaux and Hunter Mason, and newcomers John Chomko and Jacob Alaniz, worked on the mound for Black. Mason, who earned a pair of saves in seven games in 2020 for UTSA, worked a game-high four innings.
Blue split the nine innings among four pitchers, including Reese Easterling, Simon Miller, Josh Mendez and Kyle Sonduck. Mendez worked the final three innings, not allowing an earned run on just one hit and two walks, fanning two.
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Black struck for a run in the bottom of the second to open the scoring, getting a leadoff single from Shull, who scored on an RBI groundout from Tapia.
Blue took the lead in the top of the third, getting a single from Barber and a two-run homer from Price.
In the third, Black got a leadoff knock from Sean Arnold and Ochoa was plunked by a pitch, setting Lamb up with a three-run bomb.
Black plated six runs in the fifth, getting singles from Ochoa, Lamb, Shull and sophomore Josh Killen. Tapia drove in a pair with a two-run double, with Leyton Barry driving in one with a single and Arnold scoring one with a sacrifice fly.
Shull scored in the sixth on an RBI groundout from Jorge Cuevas, a native of El Paso, Texas.
Blue battled back with a pair in the ninth, with Barber and Griffin Paxton each driving in runs, before Boudreaux came on in relief to get the final two outs, working around a walk and single.
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