Senior pitcher Conor Myles kept the Texas batters in check, powering UTSA to the NCAA Austin Regional Championship. The Roadrunners have advanced to the Super Regional round, where they will take on UCLA.
JUNE 6, 2025 — After a decisive victory over Kansas State and twice conquering the No. 2 Texas Longhorns to claim the NCAA Austin Regional Championship, UTSA Baseball now has its sights set on the College World Series. No. 15 UCLA is the lone team standing in the Roadrunners’ way.
UTSA will travel to Los Angeles to take on the Bruins in a best-of-three NCAA Super Regional series that starts on Saturday, June 7, at 6 p.m. CT. The second game of the series will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 8. A third game, if necessary, will be held at a time yet to be determined on Monday, June 9. The winner of this Super Regional series will advance to the NCAA Men’s College World Series in Omaha, where college baseball’s national champion will be crowned over the course of an 8-team tournament from June 13–23.
Though UTSA’s triumph in Austin shocked many college baseball fans across the country, no one in the Roadrunners’ dugout was surprised. Reaching the College World Series has been the team’s expressed goal throughout the 2025 campaign under the leadership of sixth-year head coach Pat Hallmark. UTSA (47–13) notched wins over prestigious programs like Texas and Texas A&M early in the season before racing out to a huge lead in the American Athletic Conference standings and clinching the league’s regular-season championship with two full weeks left on the schedule.
UTSA’s regular season showing was impressive enough for the Roadrunners to earn an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament. The Roadrunners were assigned to the Austin Regional, which meant a rematch with the SEC regular-season champion Texas Longhorns was inevitable. The UTSA baseball team was determined to prove that its 8–7 upset of the Longhorns on March 18 was no fluke.
On Friday, May 31, night one of the regional, Norris McClure and James Taussig both hit home runs as UTSA hammered the Kansas State Wildcats by the score of 10–2, setting up a Saturday night matchup with Texas. The winner would of that game would advance to the regional final.
The Longhorns jumped to an early 6–1 lead on Saturday night to the joy of the sold-out home crowd at Austin’s UFCU Disch-Falk Field, but the resilient Roadrunners never relinquished. They notched four runs in the fifth inning, three more in the sixth inning and never looked back on their way to a sensational 9–7 victory.
UTSA and Texas faced off again the following night in the Austin Regional final, but the script went nothing like Saturday’s. The Roadrunners piled runs on the Longhorns early in the game and had amassed a 7–0 lead by the third inning. No comeback dramatics were needed. Seven runs were all the offensive production they would need as UTSA’s pitchers stifled Texas for most of the contest. Despite a late surge from the Longhorns, UTSA held on for a statement-making 7–4 win over the No. 2 team in the nation. Two days after celebrating its first-ever postseason win, UTSA Baseball was reveling in its first-ever NCAA regional championship.
Now, the Roadrunners are two wins away from achieving their goal and making the university’s first-ever appearance in the College World Series (the baseball equivalent of reaching the College Football Playoff or the Final Four in basketball). To get there, however, UTSA will have to contend with a talented UCLA squad that shared the regular-season championship of the Big Ten Conference with Oregon. The Bruins (45–16) pulverized the competition at the Los Angeles Regional, defeating Fresno State 19–4, Arizona State 11–5 and besting UC Irvine 8–5 in the regional final.
Roadrunner Nation is invited to show its school spirit and watch every pitch this weekend, whether they’re attending the series in Los Angeles in person, hitting up the Buffalo Wild Wings watch parties in San Antonio or watching at home. Here’s more information:
Senior first baseman Lorenzo Morresi hit a single in the third inning of the Austin Regional Final to spark UTSA's big lead over Texas.
Tickets are now on sale to watch the Super Regional series between UTSA and UCLA this weekend at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles. Tickets are $29 for each game in the series. Fans can click here to purchase tickets through UTSA. Seat locations will be assigned in RAF Loyalty Points order on Friday. All tickets are digital and will be sent via email or mobile phone.
A pre-game celebration will be held in Los Angeles at Barney’s Beanery, 1037 Broxton Ave., on Saturday, June 7, at 1 p.m. PT. All are welcome to come together with fellow Roadrunner fans making the trip and UTSA alumni living in Southern California to celebrate the Roadrunners’ tremendous season.
Buffalo Wild Wings, the official sponsor of UTSA Athletics, will host the San Antonio-area watch parties of UTSA Baseball’s appearance at the NCAA Super Regional this weekend. The location at 5860 De Zavala Rd. will serve as the official local watch party location for UTSA’s games on Saturday, Sunday and Monday (if necessary). The events will feature free prize drawings with UTSA Baseball gear, free Bud Light/UTSA swag and 15% off everything on Saturday and Sunday for those wearing UTSA gear.
While the official watch party will be held at the De Zavala Rd. location, all San Antonio area Buffalo Wild Wings will be showing the UTSA games and will feature 15% off everything on Saturday and Sunday for those wearing UTSA gear. Fans can click here to locate the San Antonio-area Buffalo Wild Wings closest to them.
Roadrunner fans gathered Thursday for a celebratory send-off for the UTSA baseball team before they made the trip to Los Angeles.
Saturday’s game will be broadcast on ESPNU, starting at 6 p.m. CT. Broadcast information has yet to be determined for Sunday’s game at 2 p.m. CT or Monday’s game (if necessary). All of the Super Regional games, including the full UTSA-UCLA series, will be available to stream via ESPN+.
All Roadrunner fans are encouraged to follow these social media channels to celebrate home runs, strikeouts and everything else in between.
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