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The grad student from Stevens High School in San Antonio leads UTSA in home runs with 15, including one Friday and two Saturday in the Roadrunners’ final two games of the regular season. He has a .298 batting average with 48 RBIs.
Bailey played for the Flying Chanclas de San Antonio during the 2021 summer Texas Collegiate League season. He batted .283 with five home runs in 35 games and earned All-TCL honors.
The right-hander from Round Rock also has two saves. He has appeared in 17 games this season.
Last season he went 2-2 with a 6.41 ERA in 17 games with seven starts.
In the 2021 Texas Collegiate League summer season, he had a 4-1 record and 2.89 ERA in nine games for the Flying Chanclas de San Antonio.
The senior right-hander from Houston has a 2-1 record with 5.01 ERA. He has appeared in 14 games this season including eight starts.
The senior outfielder from Deer Park, Texas, is batting .304 with six home runs. Last season he batted .301 with seven home runs in 34 games.
The series marks UTSA’s final home games of the season.
Garza has a 3-0 record with a 3.69 ERA. The sophomore right-hander from Houston has 11 appearances this season including four starts. He had a 1-2 record last season in 13 relief appearances.
The junior outfielder from The Woodlands, Texas, has 30 RBIs and three home runs in 38 games.
The UTSA first baseman is coming off a giant weekend in a three-game Conference USA baseball series at the plate against Southern Miss with eight hits including two home runs and six RBIs:
– Sunday: 3-for-4, home run, two RBIs, walk
– Saturday: 2-for-3, three RBIs, home run
– Friday: 3-for-4, one RBI, walk
The Roadrunners won twice in the three-game weekend series.
Marshall took a 4-3 lead into the ninth. UTSA loaded the bases in the ninth and Leyton Barry scored the tying run in a close play at the plate on Josh Killeen’s sacrifice fly to right.
Shane Sirdashney’s hit through the middle brought in Austin Ochoa with the winning run. Ochoa had a pinch-hit single to put two men on base after Barry started the rally with a one-out walk.
UTSA reliever Simon Miller (3-3) held Marshall scoreless over the final four innings to get the win.
The Roadrunners are 8-2 in their last 10 CUSA games. UTSA and Marshall play again Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
UTSA starting pitcher Daniel Garza went 4 2/3 innings and allowed three hits and two runs (both runs unearned in the fifth inning).
UTSA reliever Braylon Owens (3-1) pitched three scoreless innings and earned the win. Simon Miller entered the game in the top of the ninth inning and pitched the final three outs to get his first save of the season.
Killeen’s key hit put UTSA in front 4-0. Ian Bailey hit a solo home run in the third inning to make it 5-0.
UTSA celebrates after Shane Sirdashney's home run in the fifth innings gives the Roadrunners a 6-4 lead over FIU. #birds up pic.twitter.com/ELXLfsJJke
— Joe Alexander (@JoeAlexander210) April 24, 2022
UTSA rallied to beat Florida International 9-8 on Sunday at Roadrunner Field.
The Roadrunners scored a single run in the bottom of the eighth to break an 8-8 tie. Garrett Poston drove in pinch runner Isaiah Walker with the winning run.
Roadrunners reliever Braylon Owens pitched the final 2 2/3 innings to earn the win. He held FIU scoreless and allowed three hits with two strikeouts and one walk.
Jonathan Tapia, Shane Sirdashney and Leyton Barry all homered.
Tapia’s solo home run and Ryan Flores’ RBI single allowed UTSA to tie the game 8-8 in the bottom of the seventh.
Sirdashney’s three-run homer in the fifth put UTSA in front 6-4 and gave the Roadrunners their first lead.
Barry’s solo homer in the third inning accounted for UTSA’s first run of the game.
UTSA swept the three-game series and improved to 27-13 on the season and 12-6 in Conference USA.
