The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
Alumni Game
Baseball blanks Alumni 3-0
01.30.2010 | Baseball
Jan. 30, 2010
Box Score 
| Box Score | 
AUSTIN, Texas -- Five Longhorns combined on a five-hit shutout as Baseball posted a 3-0 win over the Texas Exes in the 2010 Fan Appreciation Day and Alumni Game at UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Saturday afternoon.
Cole Green, Brandon Workman, Stayton Thomas, Andrew McKirahan and Chance Ruffin all worked off the mound in the triumph over the Texas Exes. Green scattered two hits and hit one batter while striking out two over two innings. Workman earned the win, allowing just one hit and one walk while striking out three over two innings. Thomas worked two hitless innings, striking out two. McKirahan pitched a one-two-three seventh inning, fanning two Exes. Ruffin allowed two hits and logged two strikeouts over the last two innings to earn the save.
Texas grabbed a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. Connor Rowe hit a leadoff double to the gap in left centerfield. With two outs, Kyle Lusson drew a walk and Tim Maitland broke the scoring seal with a single up the middle to plate Rowe. Brandon Loy followed with a single to leftfield to drive in Lusson.
The Longhorns tacked on an insurance run in the sixth inning. Tant Shepherd hit a leadoff double and scored on a fielding error by Alumni pitcher James Russell on a ground ball by Paul Montalbano.
Loy led the Texas offense going 3-for-4 with one RBI. Jordan Etier, Rowe, Tant Shepherd, Maitland and Nick DeSantiago each registered hits for the Longhorns.
Texas' career-home run leader Kyle Russell went 2-for-3 to lead the Alumni's offense. Drew Stubbs, Curtis Thigpen and David Hernandez added hits for the Exes.
The Longhorns return to action on Friday, Feb. 19 with a three-game series against the New Mexico Lobos at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
