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UTSA’s Joshua Lamb smacks a hit that scores Nick Thornquist with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning.[/caption]UTSA’s bats came alive in the late innings to beat Middle Tennessee 7-6 on Friday at Roadrunner Field.

The game was the first of four in a weekend series. UTSA and Middle Tennessee meet again on Saturday for a 2 p.m. doubleheader.

UTSA scored all its runs in its final three innings after Middle Tennessee took a 2-0 lead in the top of the fifth. The Roadrunners collected 10 hits on the day including home runs by Nick Thornquist and Chase Keng and a game-winning hit by Joshua Lamb.

UTSA’s first runs came on a two-out, two run single by Dylan Rock in the bottom of the sixth. UTSA took a 5-2 lead in the seventh when Thornquist and Keng hit back-to-back solo home runs and Ian Bailey’s sacrifice fly scored Lamb.

Middle Tennessee scored four times in the top of the eighth to take a 6-5 lead.

UTSA put together four hits to score two runs in the bottom of the eight and take the lead for good. Rock led off the inning with a hit and scored on a single by Thornquist. Keng doubled and then Lamb drove in Thornquist with the go-ahead run.

UTSA starting pitcher John Chomko dominated early, shutting out middle Tennessee through four innings. Chomko completed six innings and allowed two earned runs on three hits, five strikeouts and no walks.

UTSA reliever Luke Malone entered the game in the top of the seventh and pitched 1 1/3 innings.

Arturo Guajardo finished the game on the mound for the Roadrunners and got his first win of the season. He pitched the final two outs of the eighth inning and retired Western Kentucky in the ninth.

Joshua Lamb has played in all of UTSA’s first 22 games this season. He is batting .294 with three home runs and 22 RBIs.

The 6-foot junior shortstop from Nederland, Texas, earned Conference USA all-freshman honors in 2018, when he batted .289 and led the team in triples with five. His sophomore season in 2019 was cut short by an injury and UTSA’s 2020 season was shortened due to covid.

Nick Thornquist is a senior from Flower Mound.

The 5-foot-8 catcher has hit four home runs and has a team-high 24 RBIs in 21 games this season and is batting .305.

As a junior in 2019, Thornquist batted .315 with six homers in 50 games.

Photos from the UTSA vs. UT-Arlington series in March at Roadrunner Field.

Dylan Rock has played in every game so far this season for UTSA.

The Roadrunners center fielder is second on the team in batting at .318. He has three home runs and 16 RBIs in 22 games.

The 6-foot-1 junior from Sugar Land earned Conference USA all-freshman honors in 2018 and batted .287 with six home runs. In 2019 he had a 24-game hitting streak and batted .327 with three home runs and was second in CUSA in doubles with 20.

In the covid-shortened 2020 season, Rock led UTSA in batting at .365 with one home run and 10 RBIs in 17 games.

Photos from the UTSA vs. UT-Arlington series in March at Roadrunner Field.

If people in baseball circles didn’t already know who Chase Keng is, word got around on March 26.

The UTSA outfielder hit three home runs in one game as the Roadrunners overpowered Rice 16-4 in Houston. On the day, Keng had four hits and five RBIs. That game helped Keng earn national player of the week honors from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.

Keng’s most recent homer came Friday night at Roadrunner Field in the second game of a Conference USA doubleheader against Southern Miss.

The junior from Deer Park is batting .333 on the season with 11 RBIs in 10 games.

Southern Miss piled up 24 runs on 28 hits over the course of 17 innings to sweep a doubleheader with UTSA on Friday.

Southern Miss has won the first three of the four-game Conference USA series. The series concludes with a single game Saturday at 10 a.m. at UTSA.

Southern Miss won Friday’s early game 13-9 in 10 innings in a game scheduled for seven innings. UTSA rallied back after trailing 8-4 to send the game to extra innings. Southern Miss had 19 hits including a three-run homer by Will McGillis in the top of the 10th inning.

UTSA took a 2-0 lead in the second game after Chase Keng hit his fourth home run of the season in the bottom of the first inning. Southern Miss scored eight runs over the next two innings on the way to winning 11-5. The Golden Eagles had nine hits including two third-inning home runs.

Southern Miss scored eight runs in the first four innings to beat UTSA 9-1 Thursday in the opener of a four-game Conference USA series. Southern Miss rolled behind nine hits and 11 walks.

Southern Miss starting pitcher Hunter Stanley went seven innings and allowed one run on three hits with one strikeout and two walks.

UTSA scored its only run in the six inning. Griffin Paxton tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Dylan Rock.

Paxton had two of UTSA’s five hits. Kyle Bergeron had a hit to reach base for the 15th straight game.

On a night when UTSA’s pitchers struggled early, Fischer Kingsbery and Zachary Griggs combined to hold Southern Miss to one run over the final 5 1/3 innings.

Kingsbery pitched three innings and allowed one run on three hits with six strikeouts and three walks. Griggs pitched the final 2 1/3 innings and held Southern Miss scoreless and hitless with one strikeout and one walk.