UTA baseball (3-6) fell to Sam Houston State University (3-9) 9-7 Tuesday at Clay Gould Ballpark.
UTA continued to rotate players, with nine different pitchers throughout the game. After two scoreless innings, the Mavericks struck first when junior infielder Xavier Melendez hit a single in the bottom of the third, bringing in a run and putting them up 1-0.
The next at-bat, Tyce Armstrong, redshirt junior first baseman and infielder, smashed a three-run home run putting UTA up 4-0.
