The Houston baseball team moved to 19-28 on the year after splitting its four-game weekend series against Memphis at FedEx Park.
After struggling in his last outing, junior left-hander Robert Gasser returned to his normal form in the first game of Friday’s series opening doubleheader. Gasser powered the Cougars to a 2-1 win, throwing seven innings allowing no earned runs and striking out 10, his fourth double-digit strikeout performance of the season.
Junior outfielder Steven Rivas got things going for UH at the plate, hitting an RBI single in the top of the fourth to plate the game’s first run.