CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Utah baseball team was defeated by Houston, 14-5, on Friday at Whataburger Field in the Kleberg Bank College Classic. The Utes (1-4) will return to Whataburger Field on Saturday and face Incarnate Word at 1 p.m. MT.
Third baseman Jake Gish hit his first home run as a Ute, a two-run shot in the eighth inning, while first baseman TJ Clarkson was 2-for-4 with an RBI and scored a run. Catcher Davis Cop added an RBI single and left fielder Dakota Duffalo drove in a run as well.
After Houston scored two runs in its first at bat, Utah halved the deficit in the bottom half of the inning. Back-to-back walks put Bruer Webster on second base, then Webster took third on a nicely-placed sacrifice bunt from Landon Frei. He came 90 feet home when Clarkson gave the payoff pitch a ride to left center field, deep enough from Webster to score on the sac fly.
The Cougars added another two runs in the second inning, one going on the books as unearned. Utah pushed one more run across in the bottom of the inning, when Dakota Duffalo blooped one over the mound to score Jake Gish and put the score at 4-2 for Houston.
Houston would post the game’s next six runs before Utah found the scoreboard again in the eighth inning. A four-pitch walk to Frei began the frame, before he took third on a Clarkson single. He would came home when Cop put a base hit into left field, setting the stage for Gish’s two-run dinger to…
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