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UTSA Baseball Knocks No. 2 Overall Seed Texas Out Of The NCAA Regional Round To Advance

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The UTSA baseball team topped No. 2 overall seed Texas, 7-4, in the final game of the Austin Regional to claim the program's first-ever NCAA Regional Championship.

The Roadrunners rolled to a perfect 3-0 record across the tournament — including a pair of victories over the Longhorns — at UFCU Disch-Falk Field and will advance to Super Regionals to face an opponent that's to be determined.   

BASICS:   
Score: UTSA 7, Texas 4   
Records: UTSA 47-13, Texas 43-14   
Location: UFCU Disch-Falk Field   
Win: Gunnar Brown (4-2) | Loss: Hudson Hamilton (0-1) Save: Robert Orloski (9)     

James Taussig became the first Roadrunner to reach safely as he walked in the first. Norris McClure came up big for the Roadrunners as he launched his sixth homer of the season and second of the regional to put UTSA up 2-0.    

After a scoreless second, McClure picked up his second hit of the game with a single up the middle. Lorenzo Morresi kept things moving as he drove one up the middle to put two runners aboard. Garrett Gruell reached on a fielder's choice, ahead of consecutive hit-by-pitches that put Caden Miller and Jordan Ballin on base while driving in a run. Shortstop Ty Hodge then laced a bases-clearing double into center field, putting UTSA up by six. Mason Lytle drove in the Roadrunners' fifth run of the inning on a single through the left side, delivering a 7-0 UTSA advantage.  

Texas got one back in the fourth inning on an RBI double. That run was the only one given up by Gunnar Brown, who fanned four across five innings of action. Connor Kelley tossed a scoreless sixth with a trio of strikeouts before handing the ball off to Robert Orloski in the seventh.   

Looking to spark a comeback, Texas plated a run on a solo home run in the top of the eighth, and a two-run shot in the ninth pulled them within three. Down to their final out, the Longhorns worked a full count, but Orloski found the put-away pitch as a final strikeout cemented UTSA's first-ever NCAA Regional Championship.   

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE:   
- UTSA claimed the program's first-ever NCAA Regional Championship and will make an inaugural appearance at an NCAA Super Regional. 
- The Roadrunners went 3-0 against No. 2 Texas on the season and improved to 21-21 against ranked opponents under Pat Hallmark. 
- UTSA won their fourth game at UFCU Disch-Falk Field this season, for the most victories at any ballpark besides Roadrunner Field in 2025. 
- Brown scattered six hits over five innings with four strikeouts, matching a March 25 outing against Texas State for his longest of the season 
- McClure's two-run home run in the bottom of the first was his second of the Austin Regional, and sixth of the season. 
- McClure recorded three hits for the seventh time this season, and it was his 21st multi-hit game of the season. 
- T. Hodge posted three RBIs for the third time this season. 
- Moressi logged a pair of hits for his second multi-hit game of the Austin Regional and eighth of the campaign.  
- After 11 today, the UTSA pitching staff recorded double-digit strikeouts in every game of the Austin Regional and have reached 20 double-digit strikeout games on the season.
-Orloski registered his ninth save of the season, which ranks third on the UTSA all-time list. 
-A different Roadrunner scored all seven of the squad's runs, as Taussig, McClure, Morresi, Gruell, Miller, Ballin, and T. Hodge all dented home.