Box Score CONWAY, Ark. - The UALR baseball team (11-13) snapped a four-game losing streak with an 8-3 non-conference win over Central Arkansas (12-14) on Wednesday night at Bear Stadium. UALR starter
Dillon Wilson limited UCA to four hits and two runs over 4.1 innings, and senior
John Maler held the Bears to two hits over 3.2 scoreless innings of relief to improve to 2-2 on the year.
Junior Cameron Bentley and sophomore Myles Parma led the Trojans with two hits apiece, with Bentley going 2-for-3 at the plate with one run scored and two RBI. Senior Jake Rowell hit his first home run of the season in the top of the second, a solo shot to right, to give UALR a 1-0 lead it would never relinquish.
The Trojans tacked on two more runs in the third, off a RBI groundout by senior Jason Houston and a run-scoring single by junior Nick Rountree, to take a 3-0 lead. UCA manufactured two runs in the bottom half to make it a one-run ballgame, as Jonathan Davis and Jonathan Houston delivered back-to-back RBI singles. UCA went scoreless over the next five innings, however, and left a total of 13 men on base in the loss - stranding a runner at third five times.
UALR pushed across a run in the fourth and sixth innings to go ahead 5-2, and then broke the game open with a three-run rally in the seventh. Houston opened the frame with a leadoff single and Rountree followed by reaching base on a catcher's interference to put two runners on with no outs. Senior Casey McCollum plated Houston with a sacrifice fly to right moments later, and the Trojans went on to add two more runs with two outs on the board off run-scoring singles by Parma and Bentley.
UCA starter Bryan Willson (1-1) took the loss after surrendering six hits and five runs (four earned) over 6.0 innings. Davis accounted for three of the UCA's eight hits in the loss, finishing 3-for-4 at the plate with one run scored and one RBI.
UALR returns to action this weekend when it welcomes Western Kentucky to Gary Hogan Field for a three-game Sun Belt Conference series beginning Friday at 6 p.m.
