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UTSA hits five home runs and downs ninth-ranked Coastal Carolina, 16-10

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UTSA left fielder Drew Detlefsen dives and makes a tumbling catch in the bottom of the eighth. Detlefsen also hit two home runs in a four-for-six performance at the plate. – Video from UTSA athletics.

By Jerry Briggs
Special for The JB Replay

Two standouts in UTSA’s run to the NCAA Super Regionals last year made an emphatic statement on Saturday in Houston.

With their play against the ninth-ranked Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Drew Detlefsen and Andrew Stucky suggested that the Roadrunners might just have the leadership to conjure up another magical season.

Detlefsen and Stucky both stroked four hits and combined for three home runs as the Roadrunners rolled to a 16-10 victory over the Chanticleers in Houston.

On Day 2 of the BRUCE BOLT College Classic, the Roadrunners jumped out to a commanding early lead on a team that reached the College World Series finals last year and then cruised to their ninth win in 10 games.

Coastal Carolina, with its pitching staff depleted by injuries to Cameron Flukey, Hayden Johnson and others, fell to 6-4.

UTSA wielded hot bats most of the afternoon at Daikin Park, producing 18 hits and five home runs, including two by Detlefsen and one by Stucky. Lane Haworth and Josh Arquette also hit homers, with Arquette pounding a grand slam.

Detlefsen had an impact with his glove and his bat. He made a diving catch in left field to blunt a Coastal Carolina rally and finished with four RBIs to match Arquette’s total.

Arquette, a newcomer, leads UTSA with 17 RBIs for the season, while Detlefsen has 15 a year after he paced the Roadrunners with 70 en route to 47 wins and the American Conference championship.

Roadrunners freshman righthander Jake Qualia (2-0) emerged as the winning pitcher despite yielding six runs, five of them earned, and nine hits in 4 and 2/3 innings of relief.

Chanticleers starter Ross Norman (1-2) took the loss after working 2 and 2/3 and giving up seven runs on eight hits. ‘

UTSA entered the second day of the classic with some momentum, coming off a 6-5 victory over the Ohio State on Friday.

Coastal Carolina, meanwhile, couldn’t get much going offensively in an 8-1 loss to Texas on Friday night.

The Roadrunners, batting in the top of the first, jumped out to a 3-0 lead nine pitches into the game, before many of the fans could walk from the concession stand to their seats.

Facing pitcher Ross Norman, UTSA’s Caden Miller led off with an opposite-field double to left field. Detlefsen followed with a bloop RBI single to left.

Haworth, the third batter in the game, launched a two-run homer to right field to make it 3-0.

The Chanticleers responded in the bottom half, scoring a run against UTSA starter Kendall Dove.

Dean Milos pounded a lead-off double down the left field line. The next batter, Tace Mixon, bounced a grounder down the line as the throw from third baseman Arquette went past Miller for an error. Milos scored and Mazon reached second.

From there, Dove got tough, retiring three straight. He fanned Rex Watson, popped up Walker Mitchell and got Blake Barthol on a fly ball to right.

In the top of the third, the Roadrunners responded, scoring four runs against Norman to break the game open. Drew Detlefsen singled and stole second base and then Lane Haworth walked.

After a Coastal Carolina coach visited the mound, Stucky singled to load the bases. Arquette then unloaded with the grand slam into the left field seats to make it 7-1.

The Roadrunners added six runs in the top of the fifth, an outburst capped by Detlefsen’s two-run homer off Jaxon Appleman. When Detlefsen’s homer landed in the seats above the high wall in left, UTSA held a 13-1 lead.

Coastal Carolina, a program with pride and a 2016 national title, retaliated in the bottom half. The Chanticleers knocked Dove out of the game and went on to score five runs. They added another in the sixth for good measure to make it 13-7.

Threatened by the Coastal Carolina rally, UTSA turned to Stucky and Detlefsen to put the game away.

Stucky hit a solo homer in the eighth, a high-arcing ball to left, and Detlefsen added another in a two-run ninth as the Roadrunners took a 16-7 lead.

Records

UTSA 9-1
Coastal Carolina 6-4

Coming up

UTSA vs. Baylor, Sunday, 6:05 p.m., in Houston (at Daikin Park)

Notable

UTSA is playing without two of its best players, both of them possibly out for the season. Infielder Nathan Hodge hasn’t played at all and ace pitcher Rob Orloski threw only 23 pitches in the opener. Both are out with injuries to their throwing arms.


UTSA catcher Andrew Stucky smashes a solo home run in the eighth inning on a ball that glances off the bricks in left field. Stucky went four for five and scored three runs against Coastal Carolina. – Video from UTSA athletics