{"id":215866,"date":"2026-03-22T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215866\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:37:10","slug":"mavericks-rally-past-st-johns-to-close-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215866\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Rally Past St. John\u2019s to Close Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774219030_810_Sam_Houston.png\" alt=\"Sam Houston\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Sam Houston<\/p>\n<p>3\/24\/2026 | 6 PM (CT)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 24 (Tue) \/ 6 PM (CT)&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774219030_810_Sam_Houston.png\" alt=\"Sam Houston\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Sam Houston&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/opponent-history\/sam-houston\/76\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    ARLINGTON, Texas\u00a0\u2013 The UT Arlington Mavericks closed out the weekend with an offensive surge, defeating St. John&#8217;s, 12\u20136, on Sunday at Clay Gould Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>UTA struck early and often, putting up five runs in the first inning and adding four more in the third to build a 9\u20130 lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/harold-laracuente\/14708\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14708\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Laracuente<\/a> opened the scoring with a solo home run, while <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ethan-ho\/14720\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14720\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Ho<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/austin-phillips\/14687\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14687\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Phillips<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/hank-harp\/14722\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14722\" target=\"_blank\">Hank Harp<\/a> all delivered key hits during the Mavericks&#8217; fast start.<\/p>\n<p>St. John&#8217;s answered with four runs in the fifth to cut into the lead and added another in the eighth, but UTA continued to answer back. The Mavericks pushed across two runs in the sixth, then added another in the eighth to keep the Red Storm from making it a one-possession game.<\/p>\n<p>Laracuente, <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/caylon-dygert\/14681\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14681\" target=\"_blank\">Caylon Dygert<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ethan-ho\/14720\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14720\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Ho<\/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\/austin-phillips\/14687\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14687\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Phillips<\/a> all turned in productive days at the plate for UT Arlington. The Mavericks finished with 10 hits and also drew six walks, giving themselves traffic on the bases throughout the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING NOTES&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/ty-zahradnik\/14690\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14690\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Zahradnik<\/a> earned the win for UTA after working 4.2 innings and allowing four earned runs while striking out five.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/merek-sears\/14688\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14688\" target=\"_blank\">Merek Sears<\/a> followed with 3.1 innings of relief and allowed just one run, and <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/dylan-skolfield\/14723\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14723\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Skolfield<\/a> closed out the ninth.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSt. John&#8217;s was held to nine hits, and the Mavericks&#8217; bullpen helped limit the late damage after the Red Storm&#8217;s fifth-inning rally.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>ON DECK<br \/>\nUT Arlington returns to action Tuesday, March 24, when the Mavericks visit Sam Houston at 6 p.m. at Don Sanders Stadium.<\/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.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Sam Houston 3\/24\/2026 | 6 PM (CT) &#13; Mar. 24 (Tue) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-215866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}