RICHARDSON, TX (04.08.18) - The UT Dallas baseball team won its second straight American Southwest Conference series on Sunday after splitting a home doubleheader with league-leading Concordia Texas.
The Comets took Saturday's series opener, 15-2, before earning an 8-3 come-from-behind win in Sunday's first game. The visiting Tornados would take the series finale, 4-1.
GAME 1 - UTD 8, CTX 3
The Comets used an eight-run sixth inning to rally for an 8-3 victory in Saturday's opener.
CTX starter Matthew Williams retired the first 15 Comets he faced before
Rodney Corbin opened the UTD half of the 6th inning with a the middle. Corbin's hit would the first of eight for the Comets in the frame as they turned a 3-0 deficit into a five-run lead. UTD sent 13 batters to the plate in the inning against three Tornado pitchers.
Corbin would come around and score the Comets' first run in the 6th after a CTX error before
Josh Covey plated
Peyton Becker with a sac fly to draw UTD within a run, 3-2, with just one out in the inning. Two batters later,
Barry Casey knotted the game, 3-3, with a single to right, scoring
Matt Mikusek. After a walk drawn by
Connor Scruggs to load the bases,
Dylan Palmer came up with UTD's biggest hit of the day, clearing the bases with a double down the right field line to lift the Comets to a 6-3 advantage. UTD later added an RBI double by Corbin and an run-scoring infield single by Mikusek to complete the barrage.
Ruben Renteria (3-3) picked up the win, scattering eight hits through 6.0 innings, fanning two batters.
Logan McPherson tossed a scoreless 7th in relief of Renteria.
Corbin finished 2-for-3 with a run scored and RBI while Palmer was 1-for-3 with three RBI.
GAME 2 - CTX 4, UTD 1
After scoring 23 runs in the first two games of the series against Concordia Texas, the Comets ran out of offense in the series finale with the Tornados, falling 4-1.
UTD managed just two hits in Sunday's second game, the big hit coming from Casey with two outs in the 8th, a solo homer to right field, after UTD fell behind 4-0. The long ball was the third of the season for Casey.
Cole Hanson (3-2) suffered the loss, giving up four runs on six hits in 6.1 innings of work.
NEXT GAME
The Comets (16-13, 10-5 ASC) are now in third place in the ASC standings with three weeks left to play in the regular season, but take one final break from league play Tuesday with 3 p.m. non-conference doubleheader at Southwestern.