Tigers Pick Up Road Win in Little Rock

Tuesday, March 14

Little Rock, Ark.

3 P.M.

University of Memphis

9-8

UA-Little Rock

9-5

Memphis

Little Rock

Mar 14, 2023 | Baseball

Box Score

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The University of Memphis baseball team defeated UA-Little Rock, 3-2, at Gary Hogan Field on Tuesday afternoon. Lefty Luke Ellis earned the win for the Tigers and improved to 1-1 on the year while Dalton Kendrick picked up his fourth save of the season.

With the win, Memphis improved to 9-8 on the season and snapped a six-game losing skid. The Trojans saw their five-game winning streak come to an end and fell to 9-5 on the season.

"Great overall win today," head coach Kerrick Jackson said. "We played clean baseball and had good pitching performances. One mistake by Glenn [Green III] there, but that happens. The guys came back and picked him up. We answered, pushed another run across and then DK comes in and shuts it down. Hopefully this win pushes us in the right direction, and we start playing cleaner baseball moving forward."

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The Tigers got a solid start from freshman right-hander Caden Robinson, who was making his first collegiate start. Robinson went two scoreless innings, allowing one hit, one walk and striking out one.
• Memphis took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning when Tyler Heckert lined a two-out, bases loaded single to left field that scored Austin Baskin and Logan Kohler.
• Left-handed reliever Daniel Casto relieved Robinson and threw three scoreless innings of his own. Casto allowed a pair of hits and struck out two Trojans to keep zeroes on the board.
• Little Rock tied the game in the seventh inning on a two-run homerun off the bat of Ty Rhoades after four foul balls in a two-strike count.
• Memphis answered in the top of the eighth when it loaded the bases to set up a sac-fly to right field by RJ Jimerson, scoring Anthony Hansen from third to regain the lead, 3-2.
• The Trojans loaded the bases in the bottom of the eighth before 6-foot-5 Tiger lefty Dalton Kendrick entered and got Memphis out of the jam unscathed with a pair of quick punch outs. Kendrick finished the game for the Tigers in the ninth and picked up his fourth save of the season.

NOTABLES
• Baskin tallied his ninth multi-hit game through 16 starts this season, going 3-for-4 with a run scored to raise his season average to .367.
• Kohler ended the game 2-for-4 and scored a run.
• Heckert finished the day 2-for-4 and notched a pair of RBI.
• Jimerson was 1-for-2 with a walk and an RBI.
• Hansen has hit safely in 14 of 15 games played this season and is batting .386.
• Ellis was credited with the win and is now 1-1 on the season.
• Kendrick earned his fourth save of the season and lowered his ERA to 3.24 in 10 appearances. He has struck out 25 batters and allowed just four walks on the season.

UP NEXT
• The Tigers head to Hammond, La., for a three-game weekend series with Southeastern Louisiana (11-5) starting on Friday night (6 p.m.), followed by Saturday's game (2 p.m.) and the series finale Sunday (1 p.m.).

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