ARLINGTON, TEXAS\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The St. John’s baseball team secured its third straight series victory, using a come-from-behind effort to down UT Arlington, 11-7, on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Facing a five-run deficit after the second inning, the Johnnies (9-12) stormed back to overtake the Mavericks (7-14) in the sixth inning. UTA wouldn’t go down quietly, responding with a pair of runs in the seventh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Red Storm notched a season-high in hits for the second straight game, totaling 17.\u00a0Jayder Raifstanger<\/a>\u00a0led the way for St. John’s with four hits.\u00a0Jack Tate<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Rob Mansour<\/a>\u00a0each recorded three hits.\u00a0Shaun McMillan<\/a>,\u00a0Ayden Frey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lewis Rodriguez<\/a>\u00a0all registered two hits. Seven Johnnies knocked in a run, with\u00a0Jon LeGrande<\/a>, Raifstanger and McMillan all plating a pair. LeGrande swiped a pair of bases in the outting.<\/p>\n After\u00a0Evan Chaffee<\/a>\u00a0was pulled in the third inning, the St. John’s bullpen provided a boost to help keep the Mavericks at bay. Both\u00a0Jack Nestler<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dylan Johnson<\/a>\u00a0worked out of bases-loaded jams upon entering.\u00a0Evan Hoeckele<\/a>\u00a0secured the win with 2.0 innings of scoreless relief.<\/p>\n UTA came out hot and scored five runs in the first two frames.<\/p>\n The Red Storm responded in the top of the third inning. With Mansour and Rodriguez reaching on singles, Raifstanger scored a run on a two-out single. McMillan lifted a routine fly ball to right field, but the fielder lost the ball in the sun and allowed McMillan to reach safely and knock in both runs to make it 5-3.<\/p>\n St. John’s then scored six unanswered runs to take the lead across the middle innings. In the top of the fifth frame, with Raifstanger and McMillan on second and third with one out, Adam In the next inning, Raifstanger brought Mansour home from second with a single. The Red Storm then broke the game open in the top of the seventh. With the bases loaded, Rodriguez scored Tate with an RBI single. LeGrande then singled to bring home Mansour and\u00a0Dylan Fitzsimmons<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Johnnies added two more runs across the eighth and ninth innings to secure the series win.<\/p>\n St. John’s aims for its second series sweep of the season tomorrow afternoon. First pitch from Clay Gould Ballpark is set for 2 p.m. ET \/ 1 p.m. CT.
\nAgresti grounded out to the shortstop to score Raifstanger. Tate followed up with an RBI single to knot the contest at 5-5.<\/p>\n
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