{"id":275348,"date":"2026-04-19T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:19:12","slug":"uta-mavericks-fall-11-1-to-sacramento-state-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275348\/","title":{"rendered":"UTA Mavericks Fall 11-1 to Sacramento State Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 The UT Arlington Mavericks dropped the middle game of their Western Athletic Conference series to Sacramento State 11-1 in seven innings on Saturday afternoon at Clay Gould Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State jumped out to an early lead with three runs in the second inning and added two more in the third on a two-run home run by Jakob Poturnak to build a 5-0 advantage. UTA broke through in the fourth when <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/xander-mcafee\/14684\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14684\" target=\"_blank\">Xander McAfee<\/a> delivered a solo home run to deep left field to cut the deficit to 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets pulled away with four runs in the fifth inning and added single runs in both the sixth and seventh to invoke the run rule. Sacramento State finished with 12 hits on the afternoon, while the Mavericks were limited to five hits. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/xavier-melendez\/14685\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14685\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Melendez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/preston-knott\/14707\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14707\" target=\"_blank\">Preston Knott<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/xander-mcafee\/14684\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14684\" target=\"_blank\">Xander McAfee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ethan-ho\/14720\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14720\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Ho<\/a> each recorded a hit for UTA.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching Profile<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSenior left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kyle-winkler\/14689\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14689\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Winkler<\/a> took the loss after allowing five runs on five hits over 2.2 innings. The Mavericks used three relievers, with freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/landon-murphy\/14726\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14726\" target=\"_blank\">Landon Murphy<\/a> working two innings and allowing three runs.<\/p>\n<p>On Deck<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUT Arlington and Sacramento State close out their series Sunday at noon at Clay Gould Ballpark.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>-#BuckEm-<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Mavs<br \/>\nFor the latest news on UTA Baseball, visit UTAMavs.com or follow the mavericks on social media. Follow the Mavericks on X @UTAMavsBSB, on Instagram @UTAMavsBSB, and on Facebook at Facebook.com\/UTAMavsBSB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 The UT Arlington Mavericks dropped the middle game of their Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-275348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}