The UTPB baseball team began its weekend series against Oklahoma Christian on the wrong note, suffering a 16-1 loss Friday at Roden Field.
Playing in the first of a four-game series in Lone Star Conference play, the Falcons fell to 13-25 overall, 13-24 in LSC.
The Eagles improved to 9-30, 8-29.
The game remained scoreless until the third inning when Oklahoma Christian scored two runs in the top of the frame when a single from Michael Adair led to scoring runs from Trey Migl and Jontae Hennesy.
Things wouldn’t get any easier for the Falcons as the Eagles added four more runs in the fourth.
The Eagles scored five runs each in the sixth and seventh innings to take a 16-0 lead.
UTPB’s only score of the game came on an RBI single from Taylor McDaniel, scoring Wiki DeLeon to put the Falcons on the board.
The game would end early on the run rule.
Oklahoma Christian finished with 18 hits total and no errors.
UTPB finished with seven hits and committed four errors.
David Brown got the victory on the mound for the Eagles, pitching the entire game for the visitors.
UTPB’s Damian Robles was credited with the loss, going 3.2 innings and giving up eight hits and six runs.
McDaniel and Brent Rigtrup each had two hits for the Falcons.
Oklahoma Christian was led in hitting by Migl and Elijah Laus who each had four.
Both teams will be back in action with a doubleheader starting at noon Saturday at Roden Field.
The series will finish with a single game at 1 p.m. Sunday.
