RICHARDSON, TX (03.26.09) – The game, as they say, turned out to be a "game of inches" for the UT Dallas baseball team Thursday as the Comets couldn't finish off a 7th inning rally and ended up on the short end of a 6-4 mid-week loss to Manchester College (IN).

Manchester (8-9) jumped on UTD starter Brandon Dinwiddie (1-2), scoring all six of its runs in the first four innings while scattering nine hits before a string of five UTD relievers were able to silence the Spartan bats and set the stage for a UTD comeback.

UTD (now 13-13 overall) cut the Manchester lead in half (6-3) with a two-run 6th as Adam Hudec homered and Matt Kelly drove home another run. UTD then opened the 7th with two straight singles followed by another Hudec RBI hit. Then, with the tying runs on base, Jake Eisman knocked a deep fly ball over the leftfield wall that could have given UTD a 7-6 lead, but was ruled just foul. Johnnie Martinez then battled Manchester reliever Josh Atkinson with a long two-out at-bat that included a couple of shots down the rightfield line that would've gone for doubles and tied the score. They too fell just outside the line.

Hudec and Cody Ross were the only Comets with multiple hits.

Jeremiah Valentine, Jonathan Reeder, Brad Buchanan, Tim Flasik and Adam Spinn each pitched an inning in relief, allowing just one hit over the final five innings and striking out four.

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