UTSA outfielder James Taussig high-fives fans after the Roadrunners defeated the Texas Longhorns 7-4 Sunday night to earn the Austin Regional Championship.
JUNE 2, 2025 — The UTSA baseball team topped No. 2 overall seed Texas, 7-4, in the final game of the Austin Regional to claim the program's first-ever NCAA Regional Championship. The Roadrunners (47-13) rolled to a perfect 3-0 record across the tournament — including a pair of victories over the Longhorns (43-14) — at UFCU Disch-Falk Field and will advance to the Super Regionals to face UCLA next weekend.
James Taussig became the first Roadrunner to reach safely as he walked in the first. Norris McClure came up big for the Roadrunners as he launched his sixth homer of the season and second of the regional to put UTSA up 2-0.
After a scoreless second, McClure picked up his second hit of the game with a single up the middle. Lorenzo Morresi kept things moving as he drove one up the middle to put two runners aboard. Garrett Gruell reached on a fielder’s choice, ahead of consecutive hit-by-pitches that put Caden Miller and Jordan Ballin on base while driving in a run. Shortstop Ty Hodge then laced a bases-clearing double into center field, putting UTSA up by six. Mason Lytle drove in the Roadrunners' fifth run of the inning on a single through the left side, delivering a 7-0 UTSA advantage.
Texas got one back in the fourth inning on an RBI double. That run was the only one given up by Gunnar Brown, who fanned four across five innings of action. Connor Kelley tossed a scoreless sixth with a trio of strikeouts before handing the ball off to Robert Orloski in the seventh.
Looking to spark a comeback, Texas plated a run on a solo home run in the top of the eighth, and a two-run shot in the ninth pulled them within three. Down to their final out, the Longhorns worked a full count, but Orloski found the put-away pitch as a final strikeout cemented UTSA's first-ever NCAA Regional Championship.
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