The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
26-14
Texas Southern
16-22
No. 21 Baseball rolls to 10-2 win over Texas Southern in Sugar Land
04.18.2018 | Baseball
Andy McGuire homered and Michael McCann went 3-for-3 in the Texas win.
SUGAR LAND, Texas—On Wednesday night in Sugar Land, No. 21 Texas Baseball (26-14) pounded out 11 hits en route to a 10-2 win over Texas Southern (16-22) at Constellation Field, home of the Sugar Land Skeeters.
The Longhorns got the scoring started in the bottom of the first when Tate Shaw was hit with a pitch and came around to score on a throwing error.
After the sides exchanged zeroes in the second and third, Texas plated a pair of runs in the fourth with a couple of two-out knocks. Ryan Reynolds stroked a two-out double before Duke Ellis, who finished 2-for-3 with a walk and three runs scored, tripled him home to make it 2-0 in favor of the Longhorns. Ellis then came around to score on a wild pitch to make it 3-0 after four complete.
In the fifth, Texas continued to tack on. Masen Hibbeler and Kody Clemens opened the inning with back-to-back singles and with one out, David Hamilton lifted a sac fly to center to push the Texas lead to 4-0. With two outs in the inning, left fielder Andy McGuire blasted his second career home run over the left field wall to put Texas out in front, 6-0, after five.
The Tigers plated two in the top of the sixth but a Shaw sacrifice fly got one back to make it 7-2.
In the bottom of the seventh, David Hamilton, who stole his 22nd and 23rd bases of the season in the game, dropped a bunt single before a McGuire walk put runners on the corners. Hamilton then scored on a throwing error on a failed pickoff attempt to push it to 8-2. After an Ellis walk and the first career hit for George Pappas, a wild pitch stretched the lead to 9-2. With the bases loaded, Clemens drew a walk to force in a run to close out the scoring at 10-2.
On the mound for Texas, Kamron Fields tossed two scoreless frames before Nico O'Donnell (3-2) added two of his own. After a scoreless inning each from Josh Sawyer and Matthew Whelan, McGuire finished things off on the mound with a hitless ninth.
Michael McCann finished with a career-high-tying three hits on the night while Zach Zubia extended his reached base safely streak to 39 games with a walk. The triple was the first of Ellis' career.
The Longhorns return to action on Friday night at 7 p.m. with the first of three games against visiting New Orleans.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: O'Donnell, Nico (3-2)
L: M.Furlong (1-5)
Batting:
2B: H.LeBlanc 1
RBI: K.Dukes 1 ; J.Cabreja 1
Base Running:
RUNS: K.Van Kuren 1 ; H.LeBlanc 1
SB: K.Dukes 1 ; K.Van Kuren 1
CS: J.Cabreja 1
HBP: K.Van Kuren 1
Batting:
2B: Reynolds, Ryan 1 ; McCann, Michael 1
3B: Ellis, Duke 1
HR: McGuire, Andy 1
RBI: Shaw, Tate 1 ; Clemens, Kody 1 ; Hamilton, David 1 ; McGuire, Andy 2 ; Ellis, Duke 1
SF: Shaw, Tate 1 ; Hamilton, David 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Shaw, Tate 1 ; Hibbeler, Masen 1 ; Clemens, Kody 1 ; Hamilton, David 1 ; McGuire, Andy 2 ; Reynolds, Ryan 1 ; Ellis, Duke 3
SB: Shaw, Tate 1 ; Hamilton, David 2 ; McGuire, Andy 1 ; McCann, Michael 1
HBP: Shaw, Tate 1
