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| May 31, 2005
Baseball
Cardinals end Mavericks’ season
Lamar’s offense dominates
UTA; Mavs finish regular season at 26-32 and in fifth place overall.
By Melissa
Winn
The Shorthorn News Editor
The Mavericks’ 2005 baseball season came to an abrupt end
Friday afternoon after the Lamar Cardinals scored four runs in the
fourth inning at the 2005 BellSouth Southland Conference Tournament
at Brown-Stroud Field in Natchitoches, La.
The Cardinals won the game, 8-3, despite a strong performance by
Mavs third baseman Daniel Macha. In his final game for UTA, Macha
went 3-for-4 with a double and a triple.
Pitcher Dillon Gee took the loss after allowing four runs on seven
hits in 5 2/3 innings of work. He struck out two, walked four and
ended the season 5-8.
The Mavs were first on the scoreboard in the third inning when first
baseman Ryan Nelson drew a five-pitch, bases-loaded walk to score
outfielder Brock Wilson.
The lead would only last until the home half of the fourth inning
when Lamar’s offense got rolling. Catcher Michael Ambort hit
a double and scored, and infielder Jeremy Gray drove in two runs
with a double to left-center and scored on infielder Chase Richards’
single.
The Cardinals sealed the game in the eighth when outfielder Matt
Lambeth was hit by a pitch and scored on an Ambort sacrifice fly.
The Mavs ended the tournament the same way they began, losing to
Lamar. The 7-1 opening game loss put the Mavericks in the losers’
bracket to face Northwestern State. Pitcher Grant Varnell allowed
one run and four hits in the Mavs’ 4-1 victory over the Demons.
Varnell improved his record to 8-2 with the complete-game win.
The Mavs ended the regular season in fifth place at 26-32 overall.
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