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Baseball evens Big 12 series at Kansas, 2-1
04.13.2013 | Baseball
April 13, 2013
LAWRENCE, Kansas - Sophomore left-hander Dillon Peters allowed one run on six hits in a complete-game effort Saturday as the Texas Longhorns evened its Big 12 series with the 2-1 win over the Kansas Jayhawks at Hoglund Ballpark. The Longhorns provided a run in the second and third innings for the team's 15th one-run game of the season.
Mark Payton led off the second with a walk, moving to second on C.J Hinojosa's sacrifice for Texas (19-14, 4-7). Jacob Felts then singled to left as Payton scored the first run. With the bases loaded in the third, Payton drilled a fly ball to center as Brooks Marlow scored to make it a 2-0 Texas lead.
Peters got some key defensive plays behind him to keep Kansas (21-13, 6-5) from coming back. First baseman Ty Marlow made a solid catch at the fence on a foul ball in the sixth and two batters later, Weston Hall made a diving grab in center field for the third out. Tucker Tharp, who provided the walk-off in Friday's 7-6, 12-inning win for Kansas, hit an RBI double for the Jayhawks' lone run in the seventh.
Michael Suiter represented the tying run in the eighth after a single, but Peters induced the 5-4-3 double play to end the Kansas half of the inning. Connor McKay hit a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth, but Ka'iana Eldredge grounded to short as Hinojosa flipped the ball to second to end the game.
The series concludes tomorrow at 1 p.m. and will be broadcast live on AM 1300 The Zone. Gametracker live stats will be available on TexasSports.com with live Twitter updates @Texas_Baseball.
Notes: Texas is now 9-6 in one-run games this season as 22 of the team's 33 games have been decided by two runs or less...Dillon Peters has allowed only one run in his last two starts (16 2/3 innings)...C.J Hinojosa saw his season-high hitting streak of 12 games snapped today after going 0-for-3...Mark Payton has now reached base safely in 22 straight games.
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Records: Texas (19-14, 4-7), Kansas (21-13, 6-5) WP - D. Peters (3-2) LP - Benjamin (3-4) T - 2:22 ATT - 1,374
D. Peters and Felts. Benjamin and Eldredge.
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