{"id":285397,"date":"2026-05-09T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285397\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:19:07","slug":"mavericks-blank-utah-tech-in-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285397\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Blank Utah Tech in Series Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/stats\/2026\/utah-tech\/boxscore\/21060\" style=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score<\/a> ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/caylon-dygert\/14681\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14681\" target=\"_blank\">Caylon Dygert<\/a> delivered a dominant performance on the mound and <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/zach-mazoch\/14706\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14706\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Mazoch<\/a> provided the power as UT Arlington shut out Utah Tech 2-0 on Friday night at Clay Gould Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks broke through in the fifth inning when Mazoch led off with an inside-the-park home run to give UTA a 1-0 lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/clark-springs\/14718\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14718\" target=\"_blank\">Clark Springs<\/a> followed with a bunt single and advanced to second on an error before moving to third on <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/preston-knott\/14707\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14707\" target=\"_blank\">Preston Knott&#8217;s<\/a> sacrifice bunt. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/austin-phillips\/14687\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14687\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Phillips<\/a> added a sacrifice fly to right center, plating Springs to extend the advantage to 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Dygert earned the win, working 7.0 innings and allowing just three hits with four strikeouts. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/merek-sears\/14688\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14688\" target=\"_blank\">Merek Sears<\/a> pitched 0.2 scoreless innings before <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/hayes-melville\/14686\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14686\" target=\"_blank\">Hayes Melville<\/a> closed out the final 1.1 innings to record his fifth save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>UTA finished with five hits and turned in a strong defensive performance with no errors.<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROFILE<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/caylon-dygert\/14681\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14681\" target=\"_blank\">Caylon Dygert<\/a> improved to 5-4 with the victory, scattering three hits over 7.0 innings with four strikeouts. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/merek-sears\/14688\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14688\" target=\"_blank\">Merek Sears<\/a> worked a clean 0.2 innings with one strikeout. <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/hayes-melville\/14686\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14686\" target=\"_blank\">Hayes Melville<\/a> earned his fifth save, retiring the final four outs with one strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>ON DECK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mavericks and Trailblazers continue the series Saturday at 2 p.m.&#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; Box Score ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 Caylon Dygert delivered a dominant performance on the mound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-285397","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\/285397","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=285397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}