Owls Fall in C-USA Opener at UTSA

Friday, March 17

San Antonio, Texas

7 p.m.

Florida Atlantic

12-7, 0-1

UTSA

16-3, 1-0

Florida Atlantic

UTSA

Photo by: JC Ridley

3/18/2023 12:15:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Florida Atlantic baseball dropped the Conference USA opener 8-2 to UTSA on Friday night snapping a five-game winning streak.

THE BEGINNING

After a single and a walk in the bottom of the first, UTSA opened the scoring. With two outs, Matt King hit a deep fly ball to center field. Jalen DeBose tracked it down, but the ball bounced in and out of the glove of the Owls' CF. Two runs scored and King was thrown out at the plate trying to stretch.

FAU got on the board in the fourth when Mitchell Hartigan led off with a double. After a Nolan Schanuel single, Jackson Ross grounded into a double play, but Hartigan came across to score.

THE TURNING POINT

UTSA scored three runs in the fifth inning with five hits. The Owls loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the sixth but managed just one run on a sacrifice fly by Caleb Pendleton.

THE FINISH

The Roadrunners added three more in bottom of the sixth to effectively put it out of reach at 8-2.

QUOTABLE

Head coach John McCormack
"Tough night at the ballpark. Give UTSA credit. They pitched better than us. They swung the bats better than us. We have to be better. Have to be ready to play tomorrow."

THE ARMS

Hunter Cooley completed five innings with three strikeouts.
Tyler Murphy got one out in the sixth before giving way to Max Martzolf
Martzolf conceded three hits but no runs in 1.1 innings.
Dawson Ball finished the final 1.1 with one hit and no runs.

THE BATS

Jackson Ross beat out an infield single in the sixth inning to extend his hitting streak to nine games.
Nolan Schanuel finished 2-for-3 and added a walk.
UTSA starter Luke Malone completed 7.1 with one earned run allowed.

WHAT'S NEXT

Game two first pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. eastern on Saturday afternoon.

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