TYLER, TEXAS – The UT Tyler Baseball program followed their 10-1 victory over the Javelinas with a 10-0 victory on Sunday afternoon to take the series and advance to the second week of the LSC Tournament. The Patriots would only need one bullpen arm in the run-rule and the offense backed up the staff by scoring runs in five of the seven innings.
Kyle Froehlich took the mound in game two and kept the Javelina bats quite for the most part. In the first Froehlich worked around two batters getting on and got out of the inning unhurt. Sending the Patriot bats up to the plate where they would quickly give him run support. Two walks and a hit by pitch loaded the bases for Bryce Jewell who brought home one run with an RBI groundout.
The Patriots would add three more runs in the second off of three hits. A walk, two singles, and an error plated the second run of the game. Justin Williams brought in both runners on the basepaths when he singled through the right side to make it 4-0. Froehlich would quickly get the bats back up in the third when he retired the side in order. Where they once again would score a run after Kaston Mason tripled to start the inning when he bounced a ball off the top of the right center fence, he was then brought in by a Jewell sacrifice fly to make it 5-0.
Froehlich would give up a leadoff double in the fourth but then get the next three to roll over and groundout to complete the inning. He then kept the momentum going in the fifth when he once again retired the Javelina lineup in order.
Drew Schmidt added one more run in the bottom of the fifth after he sent a solo homerun to left field. Froehlich would trot back to the mound shortly after in the sixth and once again hold the offense to no runs, which would eventually be his last inning of his start.
UT Tyler would break the game open in the seventh and do just enough to complete the walk off run-rule when all the runs scored came with two outs. A single came around to score when Kyle Atkinson brought him in with a single up the middle. A double and hit by pitch loaded the bases, where two wild pitches and a walk plated the eighth and ninth runs of the game. The last run of the series came off the bat of Justin Williams who roped a single down the line to cap off the game at 10-0.
For Froehlich he would dominate with 6 innings allowing just four hits while striking out seven. With the win he now improves to 9-0 and has an impressive 1.99 ERA in 54.1 innings.
Offensively the Patriots had eight different players record a hit and three had multiple. Jewell enjoyed a 2-3 night with two RBI, Williams finished with a 2-4 line bringing in three runs, and the last Patriot with multiple hits was Tanner Hornback who went 2-4 scoring two runs.
With their 16th straight win and 43rd total in the season the Patriots will head to San Angelo and join three other teams to compete for the LSC Tournament title.
