Longhorns Win Austin Regional Opener 11-0 Over Southern

The Texas Longhorns won their Austin Regional opener on Friday afternoon, blowing out the Southern Jaguars 11-0

Matt Galatzan | Jun 4, 2021

The No. 2 overall seed Texas Longhorns baseball team exploded out of the gates in the first game of the Austin Regional on Friday afternoon, winning 11-0 over the Southern Jaguars at UFCU Disch-Falk Field

Offensively, the Longhorns were unstoppable on the day, racking up the 11 runs on 14 total hits, and scoring seven runs through the first three innings of action.

Mike Antico got things going for the Longhorns, scoring on a Zach Zubia sacrifice fly to put the Longhorns up 1-0 early in the first.

Slugger Ivan Melendez then extended that lead for Texas, firing a single shot home run to left field, giving the Longhorns a 2-0 lead after one inning.

Texas then exploded for four runs in the second inning, with Antico, Dylan Campbell and Trey Faltine, all scoring off of a Mitchell Daly double, sending the Longhorns to a 5-0 lead.

Daly wouldn't sit on the bases long, however, As Zubia would drive him in with a double of his own, giving Texas a 6-0 lead.

Zubia would be the player of the day for the Horns, going 3-4 with two RBI, while Daly had 3 RBI, and Cam Williams and Silas Ardoin each had two RBI of their own as well.

Pitcher Tristan Stevens had a tremendous outing in his own right from the mound on Friday, giving up just four hits in 7.0 innings with six strikeouts, and moving to 10-3 on the year.

With the win, the Longhorns (43-15) will advance to game four on Saturday, where they will take on the winner of Fairfield (37-3) and Arizona State (32-20) who face off at 6pm on Friday night.

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Published Jun 4, 2021

MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writer’s Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014 covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.