Jags take series from Huston-Tillotson

AUSTIN – The UHV baseball team picked up a series win at Huston-Tillotson this weekend.

The Jaguars won Game 1 on Friday, 9-4, and Game 3 on Saturday, 17-1 in seven innings, after falling 9-7 in Game 2. Big innings in both wins helped UHV improve to 26-11 overall and 14-7 in conference play.

With a 3-1 lead entering the seventh inning in Game 3, the Jaguars sent 19 batters to the plate to score 14 runs – one shy of the program's all-time mark for most runs in an inning set in 2009 against Fisher College.

Jose Montanez sparked the inning with pinch-hit solo home run to center field, his second this year. Hayden Leopold and Juan Martin followed suit with each of them hitting two-run home runs.

Julian DeLeon, Hal Perez and Daviel Camacho also had RBIs in the inning which saw the Rams (14-20, 4-14) use four different relief pitchers after starter Steel Kupec went six innings.

Martin finished 2-for-5 with four RBIs in Game 3 while Perez was 4-for-5 with three RBIs. Montanez had three RBIs, as well.

Martin, from Cordoba, Argentina, also had three RBIs in the Game 1 win as the Jaguars used a three-run third inning to overcome an early 2-0 deficit.

Leopold homered in both games on Saturday, with a two-run bomb to left center tying Game 2 up at 5-5 in the fourth inning.

Mason Longoria (6-2) and Julian Garcia (7-2) picked up the wins on the mound for UHV in the series.

Longoria struck out eight across seven innings while allowing four runs – two earned – on seven hits and a walk in Game 1 before turning it over to Justin Mireles, who threw two scoreless innings with three strikeouts.

Garcia threw six strong innings in Game 3, striking out seven while allowing just one run. Wyatt Lambert pitched a hitless seventh in which he only allowed two walks.

Carson McKenna took the loss in Game 2 after Huston-Tillotson's Gary Wafford hit a walk-off two-run home run in the seventh inning.

The Jaguars next square off with Southwestern Assemblies of God at Georgetown Eastview High School on Tuesday. Following the midweek clash, UHV heads to East Texas to face Jarvis Christian in a three-game conference series.