Category: college baseball

Pat Hallmark, UTSA baseball earn sweep to open season

UTSA coach Pat Hallmark and the Roadrunners opened the 2020 season with a 2-0 victory over Quinnipiac on Friday. - photo by Joe Alexander
UTSA coach Pat Hallmark and the Roadrunners opened the 2020 season with a victory over Quinnipiac on Friday.
New UTSA head baseball coach Pat Hallmark is off to a fast start.

The Roadrunners swept a weekend series against Quinnipiac 2-0 on Friday, 5-1 on Saturday and 13-3 on Sunday to open the 2020 season.

Hallmark spent the previous two seasons as the head coach across town at University of the Incarnate Word.

UTSA opening-day starter Slater Foust earns win

UTSA starter Slater Foust throws the Roadrunners' first pitch of the season. Foust got the win as UTSA beat Quinnipiac 2-0 on Friday. - photo by Joe Alexander
UTSA starter Slater Foust throws the Roadrunners’ first pitch of the season.
UTSA veteran pitcher Slater Foust was the Roadrunners’ opening-day starter on Friday.

The 6-foot-2 right-hander threw 6 2/3 shutout innings and got the win as UTSA beat Quinnipiac 2-0 at Roadrunner Field.

Foust allowed one hit with six strikeouts and three walks.

The junior from Georgetown, Texas, and Liberty Hill High School had an 8-2 record with a 2.96 ERA last season for UTSA.

Dylan Rock scores Roadrunners’ first run of 2020

Dylan Rock beats the throw home to score UTSA's first run of the season. - photo by Joe Alexander
Dylan Rock beats the throw home to score UTSA’s first run of the season.
UTSA’s Dylan Rock scored the Roadrunners’ first run of the season in the bottom of the first inning of Friday’s season opener.

The Roadrunners beat Quinnipiac 2-0 at Roadrunner field.

Rock singled with one out in the first and stole second. He scored on Griffin Paxton’s single.

Rock is a junior outfielder from Sugar Land, Texas. – photo by Joe Alexander

St. Mary’s opens baseball season with win against Cameron

Patrick Fennell rounds third base on the way to scoring the first St. Mary's run of the 2020 season on Jan. 31 at Dickson Stadium. - photo by Joe Alexander
Patrick Fennell rounds third base on the way to scoring the first St. Mary’s run of the 2020 season.
St. Mary’s opened its 2020 baseball season with a 5-0 shutout of Cameron on Friday at home at Dickson Stadium.

Rattlers starting pitcher Zach De La Garza went six innings to earn the win. He gave up three hits and struck out eight batters.

Patrick Fennell scored the first run of the season for St. Mary’s in the bottom of the second inning. Fennell led off the inning with a single, advanced on Mitchell Caskey’s double and scored on an error.

A first look at new UTSA men’s basketball players

UTSA's Austin Timperman (32), Eric Czumbel (10), Phoenix Ford (12), Jacob Germany (24) and Makani Whiteside (5). The Roadrunners beat Texas A&M International 89-60 in an exhibition game on Wednesday, Oct. 30. 2019 at the UTSA Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
UTSA’s Austin Timperman (32), Eric Czumbel (10), Phoenix Ford (12), Jacob Germany (24) and Makani Whiteside (5). – photos by Joe Alexander
UTSA beat Texas A&M International 89-60 in an exhibition game on Wednesday, Oct. 30. 2019 at the UTSA Convocation Center.

The 2019-2020 Roadrunners men’s basketball roster includes these new players:

5 Makani Whiteside, 6-4 freshman guard from Madera, California

10 Erik Czumbel, 6-3 freshman guard from Verona, Italy

12 Phoenix Ford, 6-8 sophomore forward from St. Petersburg, Florida

21 Knox Hellums, 6-5 junior guard from Tomball, Texas

24 Jacob Germany, 6-11 freshman center from Kingston, Oklahoma

32 Austin Timperman, 6-9 freshman forward from The Woodlands, Texas

44 Luka Barasic, 6-10 junior forward from Osijek, Croatia

UTSA's Erik Czumbel (10), Makani Whiteside (5), Jacob Germany (24), Luka Barisic (44) and Knox Hellums (21). The Roadrunners beat Texas A&M International 89-60 in an exhibition game on Wednesday, Oct. 30. 2019 at the UTSA Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
UTSA’s Erik Czumbel (10), Makani Whiteside (5), Jacob Germany (24), Luka Barisic (44) and Knox Hellums (21).
UTSA's Makani Whiteside (far left) and Phoenix Ford (12). The Roadrunners beat Texas A&M International 89-60 in an exhibition game on Wednesday, Oct. 30. 2019 at the UTSA Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
UTSA’s Makani Whiteside (far left) and Phoenix Ford (12).
UTSA's Phoenix Ford (12), Jacob Germany (24), Austin Timperman (32) and Eric Czumbel (10). The Roadrunners beat Texas A&M International 89-60 in an exhibition game on Wednesday, Oct. 30. 2019 at the UTSA Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
UTSA’s Phoenix Ford (12), Jacob Germany (24), Austin Timperman (32) and Eric Czumbel (10).