The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
02.05.2022 | Baseball
The offenses put on a show throughout the game, combining for 14 runs on 21 hits.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 1 Texas Baseball was defeated, 8-6, by the Texas Exes in the annual Alumni Game on Saturday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
Sophomore Dylan Campbell helped the Alumni team to the victory, going 4-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored. He hit a three-run homer and an RBI double. Former Longhorns shortstop David Hamilton went 2-for-3 with one RBI and two runs scored.
The offenses put on a show throughout the game, combining for 14 runs on 21 hits.
The Alumni team jumped out to a 4-0 lead on three hits off of Pete Hansen in the second inning. Former Longhorn great David Hamilton drew first blood with an RBI double to right-center field. Current Longhorn Campbell, who started for the Alumni team, hit a three-run home run to extend the lead to 4-0.
The lead was extended to 6-0 in the third inning. Zach Zubia walked, moved to third on a couple of groundouts and then scored on a wild pitch. With two outs, Hamilton walked and was driven in by a C.J. Hinojosa double.
The Longhorns got on the board in the bottom of the third, with Murphy Stehly leading off the inning with a solo homer. Then back-to-back doubles by Mitchell Daly and Ivan Melendez made the score 6-2.
Campbell notched his second hit of the game with a double to leadoff the fourth inning and Mark Payton drove him in with an RBI single to give the Alumni a 7-2 lead.
Texas got another run on the board to trim the Alumni lead to 7-3 in the fourth. Silas Ardoin and Trey Faltine each singled and Stehly drove in the run with a sacrifice fly.
Melendez drove in his second run of the game, an RBI single in the fifth inning to make the score 7-4. The Longhorns tacked on two more runs in the sixth on a two-run single by Eric Kennedy to make the score 7-6.
Mike Antico launched a solo homer in the top of the eighth inning to extend the Alumni lead to 8-6.
The Longhorns will open the 2022 season with a three-game series against Rice, Feb. 18-20, at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
