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For Immediate Release: April 6, 2002 BRONCS
EARN SPLIT WITH AGGIES
COLLEGE
STATION, TX –The 100th career victory for The University of
Texas-Pan American head baseball coach Reggie Tredaway is certainly one
that he will remember. His
Broncs rallied to score two runs in the top of the sixth inning and
defeated 16th-ranked Texas A&M, 3-2, in the seven-inning
nightcap of their doubleheader at Olsen Field Saturday night. UTPA
trailed, 2-1, before rallying in the top of the sixth. With one out,
junior designated hitter Skip Weast (Inola, OK/Inola HS/Crowder JC) led
off with a single and moved to third on a double to left-center by
freshman right fielder Tony Ortiz (Fort Worth, TX/Nolan HS). Senior
third baseman Adam Farek (Crockett, TX./Crockett HS/Cedar Valley JC)
singled up the middle, scoring Weast and Ortiz with the go-ahead runs. The
Broncs took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. With two out, Weast and
Ortiz drew walks against starter and loser Ryan Warpinski. Farek beat
out an infield hit, and Weast scored on third baseman Tim Petru’s
throwing error. Eric
Reed led off the bottom of the first with a bunt single for TAMU and
stole second with one out. Right fielder Neal Stephenson singled to
right-center to score Reed. Petru hit a two-out homer in the second
inning to put the Aggies ahead. Sophomore
righthander Justin Bogy (West Columbia, TX/West Columbia HS) allowed
four hits, walked two and struck out five, pitching his second complete
game of the season and improving his record to 3-2. Bogy retired the
side in order in the sixth. He was charged with an error on Travis
Wong’s leadoff pop fly that went off his glove in the seventh,
allowing Wong to reach second. After a visit from Assistant Coach Johnny
Johnson, he walked Ty Garner, but struck out Tim Petru and retired Erik
Schindewolf and Cody Mavroulas on pop flies to end the game. Warpinski
fell to 1-2 with the defeat. In
the opener, the Broncs trailed, 6-1 entering the top of the seventh
inning when freshman first baseman Carlos Gallardo (Mission,
TX/Sharyland HS) led off by being hit by a pitch. Freshman center
fielder John Lopez (Mission, TX/Mission HS) and junior second baseman
Jerome McCoy (Fort Worth, TX/Eastern Hills HS/Northeast Texas CC)
followed with singles, loading the bases. Junior
left fielder Bruce Kennedy (Mansfield, TX/Mansfield HS/Northeast Texas
CC) then singled, scoring Gallardo and Lopez. Logan Kensing relieved
Matt Farnum on the mound for the Aggies, and junior Jarrod Maddox
(Houston, TX/Jersey Village HS/North Arkansas JC) pinch-hit and reached
on Wong’s error. McCoy scored on a wild pitch, and Farek reached on an
error, scoring Kennedy. But Kensing then struck out the side, fanning
Weast, freshman catcher Matt Eichel (Grapevine, TX/Grapevine HS) and
freshman shortstop Marco Garza (Mission, TX/Sharyland HS) in succession,
preserving the lead. UTPA
scored their only other run in the fourth, when Eichel, Gallardo and
Lopez singled. Designated hitter Rusty Meyer homered in the first for
the Aggies, shortstop Matt Alexander walked with the bases loaded and
Meyer followed with an infield hit in the second for two more runs,
catcher Justin Pouk’s double produced a run in the third, Pouk singled
in another run in the fifth and Stephenson doubled home a run in the
sixth. Farnum,
who reliever started Khalid Ballouli after a three hour and 26 minute
rain delay following the top of the first inning, earned the win, while
Kensing picked up the save. Senior Frank James (Elgin, TX/Elgin
HS/Navarro JC), who pitched the first five innings for the Broncs, took
the loss and fell to 4-6. “We played well the whole weekend, and we came back in the second game and battled, and scored some runs,” said Johnson. “Justin Bogy has really started to come into his own in his last four starts. Tonight, we got a couple of hits when we needed them, and, in the other games, they turned a bunch of double plays, and it killed us. Reggie has been saying all year that you have to pitch first, play defense second and hit third, and it all came together tonight.” With
the second game victory, UTPA broke a five-game losing streak and
improved to 9-25. Texas A&M saw their seven-game winning streak end,
and fell to 26-11. The Broncs will return to action when they host Texas
A&M-Kingsville in a doubleheader Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. BASETAMU23040602
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