The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
25-12, 5-6
Kansas State
17-16, 3-8
No. 7 Baseball drops series at Kansas State
04.15.2022 | Baseball
The Longhorns will look to salvage the series against the Wildcats on Saturday at 4 p.m.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – No. 7 Texas Baseball dropped the series to Kansas State with an 8-1 loss on Friday at Tointon Family Stadium.
The Longhorns (25-12, 5-6) will look to salvage the series against the Wildcats on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Gavin Kash, making his first career start at first base, went 2-for-3 with a double. Silas Ardoin was 1-for-3 with a solo homer for the second-consecutive game.
Kansas State got on the board first with two runs in the second to take a 2-0 lead. The Wildcats scored another run in the sixth inning to extend the lead to 3-0.
Texas got a run back in the seventh on a solo homer by Ardoin to trim the lead to 3-1.
The Wildcats got the runs right back in the bottom of the seventh with a two-run homer off of reliever Coy Cobb to go up 5-1.
Kansas State added to its lead in the bottom of the eighth, taking advantage of two errors to score three more runs and lead 8-1.
Tristan Stevens started and pitched 6 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on eight hits. The loss dropped him to 4-4 on the season.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Adams, Blake (4-4)
L: Stevens, Tristan (4-4)
Batting:
2B: Kash, Gavin 1
HR: Ardoin, Silas 1
RBI: Ardoin, Silas 1
SH: Daly, Mitchell 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Ardoin, Silas 1
Batting:
2B: Mitchell, Justin 1
HR: Johnson, Dominic 1
RBI: Johnson, Dominic 3 ; Nicoloff, Josh 1 ; Mitchell, Justin 2 ; Hughes, Dominic 1 ; Culpepper, Kaelen 1
SF: Johnson, Dominic 1 ; Hughes, Dominic 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Johnson, Dominic 1 ; Salinas, Orlando 1 ; Phillips, Dylan 1 ; Goodwin, Nick 1 ; Nicoloff, Josh 2 ; Mitchell, Justin 1 ; Culpepper, Kaelen 1
HBP: Goodwin, Nick 1
PO: Goodwin, Nick 1
