After getting down by one run after the game's first five innings, No. 16 Texas baseball (4-1, 0-0 SEC) rallied back in the middle and late innings to defeat the Dartmouth Big Green (0-2, 0-0 Ivy League) by a narrow 3-2 score on Saturday afternoon at the Disch.
Max Belyeu's seventh-inning double plates the game-winning run for Texas baseball to take the series win over Dartmouth
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Head coach Jim Schlossnagle and the Longhorns won their fourth straight game to take the series with two victories on Friday and Saturday afternoon in Austin against Dartmouth to kick off this weekend at the Disch.
On Friday afternoon, Texas held on for a hard-fought 4-3 win over a stingy Dartmouth squad. Dartmouth scored two runs in the top of the eighth inning to cut the Longhorns' lead down to just one run before the game's final frame in the ninth.
This time around this afternoon, Texas had to come from behind after falling behind by one run a couple of times in this game. Dartmouth jumped out to a 1-0 lead that resulted in an unearned run from a Texas defensive error in the first inning.
The Longhorns quickly tied the game up at 1-1 in the bottom of the first, thanks to a wild pitch that got Max Belyeu to the plate. But the Longhorns had a chance to take the lead in the bottom of the first inning, stranding two runners in scoring position.
Dartmouth responded a few innings later with a run of its own to take back a one-run lead in the top of the fourth. Texas scored the game's final two runs in the bottom of the sixth and seventh innings, on a couple of hits from Will Gasparino and Belyeu.
It wasn't the cleanest of swings that Belyeu got this series on the ball, but it got the job done to get the third and final run of the game to the plate for Texas.
"Yea, I'm just trying to put a good swing on it. Got beat, obviously, and just got lucky it fell. Glad I got an RBI right there. "Max Belyeu
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Belyeu plated the eventual game-winning run in the seventh on a double out to center that scored Kimble Schuessler.
Schloss and the Longhorns continued to get solid pitching from the rotation in this game. Texas had no fewer than three earned runs in the first two games of this weekend's series vs. Dartmouth on Friday and Saturday.
Luke Harrison pitched 3.1 innings with one earned run and three hits allowed, along with one walk and two strikeouts. Andre Duplantier II came away with his first victory of the season out of the bullpen, pitching three nearly perfect innings on the mound for the Longhorns.
Duplantier pitched 3.2 shutout innings for Texas out of the bullpen, allowing just one hit and striking out three Dartmouth batters. In three appearances out of the pen this season, Duplantier hasn't allowed any earned runs and has struck out five batters he's faced.
Max Grubbs closed out the game in the top of the ninth with his first save of the season.
For the second straight day, Schuessler and Belyeu have come up in clutch time for the Longhorns at the plate in consecutive one-run wins over the Big Green. It hasn't been pretty, but the Longhorns have rode timely hitting and solid pitching from the bullpen to put this team in position to potentially sweep the season's first home series at the Disch this weekend with the third game tomorrow at Dartmouth in the afternoon at 12 noon CT.