Tech Wins Series Over Houston
By: David Collier
Updated: April 14, 2012
Courtesy of Texas Tech.
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech won its first series of the season - and its third game in a row - with a 7-1 victory over Houston on Saturday evening at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech won its first series of the season - and its third game in a row - with a 7-1 victory over Houston on Saturday evening at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
Sophomore
right-handed pitcher Duke von Schamann pitched seven shutout innings
with four strikeouts to lead the Red Raiders (21-15) to their fourth win
over their
last five games. Houston (12-20-1), meanwhile, lost for the eighth time
over its last 11 games.
Tech
scored a run in the bottom of the first and then used a pair of
three-run innings in the fifth and seventh while von Schamann (5-3)
scattered 11 base hits and
never allowed a run or walk in his team-leading fifth win of the season.
The
Red Raiders quartet of Jamodrick McGruder (3-for-4, 3 runs), Barrett
Barnes (2-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBI), Scott LeJeune (2-for-4, 2 RBI) and Bo
Altobelli (2-for-4,
2 RBI) went a combined 9-for-16 with seven runs and seven RBI.
Houston
starting pitcher Jordan Mannisto (1-2) took the loss going 4.1 innings
allowing three runs - all earned - on seven hits with one strikeout.
Three Houston relievers
combined to allow four runs on five hits in 3.2 innings.
A
two-out RBI single by LeJeune plated Tech's first run of the game in
the bottom of the first inning. The Red Raiders added to their lead with
three in the fifth
inning, sparked by Barnes' two-run triple to deep center field.
Altobelli then drove in Barnes with a double to left field.
Tech
made the score 7-0 with a three-run seventh inning. Barnes drove in
McGruder with a single to left field and LeJeune followed with an RBI
single up the middle
before Altobelli scored LeJeune with a double off the top of the
left-field fence.
In
five of von Schamann's innings pitched, he forced the Cougars to leave a
runner in scoring position, including the seventh inning - von
Schamann's final inning
- when three of the first four batters of the frame singled while all
three were left on base.
In addition, von Schamann has now gone 18.1 consecutive innings without allowing a walk.
Texas Tech will look for the series sweep over Houston on Sunday with a 1 p.m. first pitch at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.
