TYLER, TEXAS – Starter
Dylan Blomquist went 6.0 complete innings and the #29/RV UT Tyler offense jumped out to a 10-1 lead to take down Cameron by a 10-6 final in Saturday's series opener.
Blomquist struckout seven over his 6.0 innings of work and allowed just a single earned run to allow a red-hot Patriot offense to open a commanding 10-1 advantage. Junior
Lane Hutchinson went 2-for-3 with three RBI and
Kaston Mason hit a three-run homer to highlight a UT Tyler offense that racked up nine hits in the ballgame.
Head coach
Brent Porche collected the 350
th win of his career with the victory as well.
UT Tyler needed the big start after Cameron plated five runs in the top of the eighth with the game already well in-hand for the Patriots. Hutchinson doubled a 1-0 lead after a wild pitch scored the first run of the game for the Patriots in the bottom of the first with an RBI single to right.
Junior
Austin Ochoa put run number three on the board in the bottom of the third before Hutchinson's second RBI of the night made it 4-0 with his second RBI single a few batters later. The Mason three-run homer, his third in as many games, broke the game open at 7-0 in the bottom of the fourth.
Blomquist went unscathed through the first four innings before a solo homer for Cameron in the fifth put the first run on the board for the Aggies. UT Tyler quickly responded with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the frame on RBI from
Nathan Carriere and
Edward Ortiz, and then executed a double steal in the bottom of the sixth to make it 10-1.
Cameron's five-run eighth inning proved irrelevant as
Nick Oslovar and
A.J. Irvin shutdown the Aggie rally in the eighth and ninth innings.
Junior
Ethan Bedgood went 2-for-5 with a pair of runs scored, while Carriere added a multi-hit effort with a 2-for-4 day at the plate.
Oslovar retired both batters he faced in the eighth, and Irvin put together a perfect ninth inning with a strikeout and a pair of groundouts.
UT Tyler moves to 25-12 on the year and in Lone Star Conference play.
UT Tyler and Cameron will return to the diamond tomorrow afternoon in doubleheader action scheduled for a 3 p.m. first pitch.