No. 1 Texas baseball welcomed back 15 former players for the annual Alumni Game on Saturday.
The Texas Exes jumped out to an early lead on the current roster and held on for an 8-6 victory. Both offenses swung the bat well as the teams combined for 14 runs and 21 hits.
The star of the show was Sophomore Dylan Campbell, who started for the Alumni team. Campbell went 4-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored. His three-run bomb off Pete Hansen in the second inning put the Alumni squad up 4-0.
David Hamilton (2017-2019) added on to the alumni lead going 2-3 with two runs scored.
The current squad started to heat up in the middle innings.
Murphy Stehly launched a solo home-run to lead off the third inning. Mitchell Daly and Ivan Melendez followed with extra-base hits to make the score 6-2.
Texas scored runs in the next three innings to cut the lead to 7-6 on an Eric Kennedy two-run single.
The Alumni squad would respond with a run of their own as last season’s centerfielder Mike Antico (2021) hit a moonshot over the right-field wall to extend the lead to 8-6.
The current Horns would threaten in the bottom half of the seventh but Duke Ellis (2018-2020) would rob Trey Faltine of a game-tying base hit.
Here are some of the highlights of Saturday’s ballgame: