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Baseball records 1-0 shutout over Prairie View A&M
04.30.2013 | Baseball
April 30, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Longhorns used four pitchers for an eight-hit shutout Tuesday while freshman catcher Jeremy Montalbano drove in the only run as the Texas Longhorns defeated the Prairie View A&M Panthers, 1-0, at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
Josh Urban started on the mound for Texas (23-20) and allowed four hits on five scoreless innings. Travis Duke (4-0), who recorded the win, went two innings and allowed three hits with three strikeouts. Corey Knebel threw a perfect ninth to earn his eighth save of the season.
Texas scored in the seventh with two outs. Jacob Felts reached on a fielding error before Brooks Marlow singled to left. Montalbano then laced a single to left center to score Felts for the lone run of the game.
Stephen Lunsford (1-3) took the loss for the Panthers despite going eight innings and giving up only one uneared run on five hits with no walks and two strikeouts. Prairie View A&M (20-21) recorded eight hits during the contest, led by first baseman Dominiq Harris, who went 2-for-4.
Texas resumes Big 12 play with a three-game series against Kansas State this weekend at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. Friday's game begins at 6:35 p.m. with Saturday's game at 2 p.m. and Sunday's game at 1 p.m. All three games will be broadcast by Longhorn Network with radio on AM 1300 The Zone. Gametracker live stats will be available on TexasSports.com with live Twitter updates @Texas_Baseball.
Notes: Mark Payton has reached base safely in 32 straight games...Payton also recorded his 9th outfield assist for the season...Texas is now 8-0 all-time against Prairie View A&M...C.J Hinojosa and Jacob Felts had their hitting streaks snapped at six games tonight.
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Records: Texas (23-20), Prairie View A&M (20-21) WP - Duke (4-0) LP - Lunsford (1-3) S - Knebel (8) T - 2:04 ATT - 5,189
Lunsford and Price. Urban, Duke (6), T. Marlow (8), Knebel (9) and Montalbano.
Post-Game Quotes
Texas head coach Augie Garrido
Opening statement: We really got good pitching out of (Josh) Urban. He's been very effective every time he's walked out there on Tuesdays. He's been very consistent. The only reason we didn't let him go further was to use him this weekend. We wanted to get (Travis) Duke a couple innings. He has consistently been tough with his 0.58 ERA. That's pretty impressive. He continues to pound the zone. Ty Marlow needed to pitch, which is why I took him off third--to give him a chance to warm up properly, so that we weren't risking arm injury by rushing him into the game. Lastly, Corey (Knebel) needed to get back out on the mound. He pounded the zone and got his three outs on time with the help of his teammates. The team needs to continue to keep their arms around each other and pick each other up in any way they can.
On the run-scoring inning: The run-scoring inning, some of that had to do with the hustle of (Jacob) Felts after not getting hits earlier in the game. I stand down here at the end (near first base). The second baseman looked up just as he was trying to catch the ball and see where Felts was. He was surprised Felts was running so hard and not turning it into an automatic out. That had something to do with him bobbling it. Hustle played into it. (Brooks) Marlow, with two strikes, stayed inside on a pitch and drove it to the opposite field. That was a good at-bat and it got the runner to second base. Jeremy (Montalbano), swung at the first pitch that bounced, but he had made an adjustment to respond to the ball that he didn't have going for him in the first at-bat and he hit the hard line-drive on the breaking ball up the middle.
On whether the closeness of tonight's game surprised him: Yes, it surprised me a lot. They played pretty well. The problem is we didn't put a lot of difficult balls in play that had backspin on them or really hard line-drive plays. They made the plays--all but that one (error on the second baseman).
Junior pitcher Josh Urban
On whether his coaches have plans to play him in this weekend's series: I hope so. I'm always looking forward to the weekend. Our bullpen is great all-around, so I'm just looking forward to getting back on the weekend and start pitching.
On whether he was trying to talk his coaches into leaving him in this evening's game: Honestly, I didn't feel the best tonight. I was leaving the ball up a little bit. The stats don't show it, but the outfield was saving me a little bit. On the weekend or on Tuesday, it's still pitching.
Freshman catcher Jeremy Montalbano
On whether his RBI in tonight's game would have been possible without Jacob Felts busting down the line and getting on first: It was a good hustle play by him. It definitely made the inning.
On today's narrow win: It wasn't pretty, but it was something that we needed because we've been lacking the two-out hits. It was nice for me to step up and get a two-out hit. Hopefully, that can lead to at-bats like that for the whole team.
On whether a close win today helps or hurts his team's confidence: I think any win helps the team confidence. The first few innings we were hitting the ball hard right at people. We can't do anything about that.
