KINGSVILLE, Texas (February 15, 2025) – The University of Texas Permian Basin baseball team dropped its next two games of its Lone Star Conference series at Texas A&M University-Kingsville on Saturday, being shutout 5-0 in game one before outhitting the Javelinas but coming up one run short in a 4-3 loss in game two.
 
Game 1 (UTPB 0, TAMUK 5):

• UTPB was held to just five base runners, three hits and one walk in game one.
• Trevor Barth (0-3) pitched all six innings allowing six hits, five runs, three walks and five strikeouts.
• TAMUK got a leadoff single followed by a sacrifice bunt and back-to-back walks to start off the bottom of the first inning. That was followed by a pair of run-scoring singles through the infield and a sacrifice fly to make it an early 4-0 lead for the Javelinas.
• TAMUK finished the first inning with three hits and two walks and cruised to victory from there.
• After a leadoff single by Brent Rigtrup, UTPB would leave runners on the corners with one out in the second inning.
• UTPB's only other two hits were a two-out single in the top of the fifth inning by Dayton Osborn and a leadoff double by Kaleb Scull in the seventh.
• Ulises Quiroga (2-0), a graduate transfer from UTSA, earned the complete game shutout for the Javelinas and struck out seven Falcons.
• After five stolen bases on Friday, the Javelinas added four more in game one on Saturday.

 
Game 2 (UTPB 3, TAMUK 4):

• UTPB scored first as after Scull finished game one with a double in the seventh inning, he started off game two with a leadoff double to left field. Scull would move to third base on a sacrifice bunt by Jack Haggerty and scored on an RBI-single to center field by Carson Johnson.
• After back-to-back singles by TAMUK in the bottom of the first, Timmy LaChappa got a 5-3 double play to get out of the inning.
• In the bottom of the second, however, another leadoff single and a two-out walk would come back to bite LaChappa as the Javelinas pulled off the double steal of second base and home to tie the game at 1-1.
• After UTPB stranded runners at the corners after back-to-back singles by Scull and Haggerty in the top of the third inning, TAMUK took advantage of its chance in the bottom half with three runs on two hits. The Javelinas again got back-to-back singles to lead off the inning, scored two runs on a throwing error by the third baseman and added what would go on to be the winning-run on a sacrifice fly to right field.
• UTPB proceeded to leave the bases loaded in the fourth inning but scored twice in the fifth inning. A leadoff single by Haggerty and a defensive miscue by the Javelinas led to an RBI-groundout to short by Johnson, and then a walk by Rigtrup and a passed ball led to a two-out RBI-single to center field by Jarren Lewis.
• Down by just one run, UTPB was unable to do anything with a one-out double down the left field line by Osborn in the sixth inning.
• Then in the seventh, UTPB got both the tying run and the go-ahead run into scoring position. After a two-out single through the left side by Lewis, the pinch runner, Ethan Ralph, advanced to third on a throwing error by the pitcher. That was followed by a walk to Makai DeSoto, who stole second base to put two runners in scoring position for Andrew Prado, but a swinging strikeout was all she wrote, giving the Javelinas a 3-0 lead in the series.
• Haggerty was 2-for-2 with a walk and a sacrifice while Scull was 2-for-4 and Lewis was 2-for-3.
• Johnson's two runs batted in give him five RBI's so far in the series.
• LaChappa (0-3), like Barth in game one, pitched all six innings in game two and allowed six hits. He finished by giving up four total runs but just two earned runs to go along with two walks and four strikeouts.
• TAMUK stole three more bases, giving the Javelinas 12 steals through three games against the Falcons.
• The Falcons outhit the Javelinas for the first time in the series, but it did not make a difference on the scoreboard in the end.

 
Team Records:

• UTPB falls to 2-9 both overall and in the Lone Star Conference while TAMUK increases its winning streak to six games in a row and improves to 8-4 overall and 7-4 in the LSC.

 
Coach's Quote:

• UTPB Head Coach Justin Phillips spoke, "We were right there. Our pitching was good today. We were two innings away today from two wins. We have to get healthy and have guys step up when they get their chance. We are a couple of bounces away from things going our way. We win as a team and we lose as a team."

 
Next Up: The fourth and final game of the series between UTPB and TAMUK will start at 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 16, from Kingsville, Texas.