Box Score

AUSTIN – Despite four strong innings in relief from Dylan Bein, Texas State fell to No. 12 Texas, 5-1, Tuesday night to drop to 15-9 on the season. Texas improved to 20-6.
 
Colby Targun and Cory Geisler were the only Bobcats to register a hit in the game. Texas tallied 10 hits to get the team's five runs in the game.
 
The Bobcats threatened in the eighth inning, loading the bases. But, unfortunately for Texas State, the team could only score one run. Ben McElroy and Tanner Hill both earned walks followed by a single from Geisler. Next, Matt Smith sent a sacrifice fly to right field to score McElroy for Texas State's only run of the game.
 
Bein only gave up two hits in four innings of relief while striking out four. Geisler finished the game for Texas State in the bottom of the bottom of the eighth. Starter Tyler Davenport and Ross Goebel combined to give up eight hits, five runs and four walks with one strikeout.
 
Texas used five hits to score four runs combined in the first two innings. The Longhorns' Ben Johnson and Mark Payton both knocked singles and C.J. Hinojosa walked in the first. Collin Shaw cued up a double play ball in the next at bat, but it turned into an RBI fielder's choice when the throw was just late to first. Another single scored one more run in the first before the Bobcats ended the opportunity.
 
In the second, UT's leadoff batter knocked a single and the top two batters in the lineup achieved consecutive walks to load the bases again. A sacrifice fly and a double after that scored two more runs for the Longhorns to go up 4-0 early.
 
Texas added the team's fifth run on a solo homer by Ben Johnson in the fourth. It was the first home run by the Longhorns at UFCU Disch-Falk Field this season and Johnson's second of the year. His first was at Bobcat Ballpark against Texas State.
 
Texas State will continue the team's road trip for a Sun Belt Conference series at Arkansas State this weekend with games at 6 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.