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Michelle Arias vs. UAM
0
Ark.-Monticello UAM 5-6
19
Winner Texas-Tyler UTT 12-0
Ark.-Monticello UAM
5-6
0
Final
19
Texas-Tyler UTT
12-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Ark.-Monticello UAM 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5
Texas-Tyler UTT 0 12 5 2 X 19 15 0

W: Foster, Payton (7-0) L: J. Franks (2-1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Ryan Shumaker

#1 UT Tyler Matches Division II Record With 19 Runs in Home Opener Victory

The Patriots won 19-0 in five innings to open up their home schedule on Friday night against Arkansas-Monticello

TYLER, TEXAS – The University of Texas at Tyler softball team opened up their 2022 home schedule with a 19-0 win over Arkansas-Monticello on Friday night at Suddenlink Field.
 
The no. 1 ranked Patriots wasted no time in settling in at their home park, plating 12 runs in the bottom of the second and five more in the third to break the game open in the first of three games against the Cotton Blossoms scheduled for this weekend. Redshirt senior Bayli Simon and sophomore Michelle Arias both homered, while 17 different Patriots earned an at-bat in the contest.
 
Junior Payton Foster allowed just two hits in her 3.0 innings of work to move her record to 7-0 on the year, and combined with sophomore Tatum Goff to shutout the Cottom Blossoms by allowing just five hits in the 5.0 innings of work. Goff came on in relief of Foster in the fourth, and struckout five batters while allowing just a single hit.
 
18 batters came to the plate for UT Tyler in that bottom of the second that saw the Patriots total 12 runs on eight hits, including a three-run homer by Simon to get the scoring onslaught started. UT Tyler took advantage of three errors by Arkansas-Monticello in the frame, and nearly batted through the lineup twice.
 
Simon had four RBI and Arias finished her night with three RBI, as UT Tyler totaled 15 hits in the ballgame.
 
Arias hit her homer, a two-run shot to leftfield, in the second at bat of the third inning, which saw the Patriots plate five more runs to make it 17-0 after just three trips to the plate. Senior Mak Dominguez added her three RBI on the night in those two frames, to join Simon and Arias with multi-RBI efforts in the win.
 
Freshman Cassidi Mullen and Kaylee Davis finished off the scoring on the night with RBI singles in the bottom of the fourth. Nine different Patriots recorded at least one RBI in the effort.
 
12 different Patriots recorded hits on a night in which the program matched their Division II record with 19 runs, a mark set last year in a 19-0 win over Texas A&M International on Apr. 11th. UT Tyler has now scored 10 or more runs in five games thus far in 2022, and has outscored their opponents 130-to-27.
 
UT Tyler and Arkansas-Monticello will conclude the three-game series tomorrow afternoon with a doubleheader scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.
 
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