UAB Opens Series with Win Over Wichita State

Friday, April 10

Birmingham, AL

5 p.m.

UAB

23-11, 0

Wichita State

21-14, 0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Wichita State	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	6	1
UAB	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	4	8	0

UAB Opens Series with Win Over Wichita State

4/10/2026 9:10:00 PM | Baseball

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BIRMINGHAM – UAB Baseball took game one over Wichita State (21-14, 5-5) on Friday night by a score of 4-3. With the win, the Blazers (23-11, 8-2) won their eighth straight home game and their eighth straight conference win.

The Shockers jumped out front early with two runs in the top of the second. After an RBI groundout by Jack Quick, Alex Ulloa roped a single to bring in Jacob Gutierrez to put Wichita State up, 2-0.

The Green and Gold would quickly answer with three runs in the bottom half of the inning to take the lead. Austin Pierzynski pushed across the first run on an RBI groundout. Baylor Roberts would follow that up by doubling on the first pitch he saw to tie the game at two. The next batter, Kevin Hall Jr. muscled a single to center to give the Blazers a 3-2 lead through two innings.

That score would hold until the top of the fifth inning. Jack Quick launched his second home run of the season to tie the game at three.

UAB would finally get its offense going again in the bottom of the eighth. After a leadoff base hit by Andrew Hunt, Austin Pierzynski would get him to third on a perfectly executed hit-and-run to put runners on the corners with one out. The next batter was Baylor Roberts and with two strikes, Roberts sent a fly ball to left field to bring home Hunt on a sac fly to put the Green and Gold up, 4-3, going into the top of the ninth.

Brendan Conner was stellar coming out of the UAB bullpen. Conner did not allow a hit until the top half of the ninth inning. With two outs, pinch hitter Nolan Ganter dropped a hit into left center, but would be cut down at second after a perfect relay by the Blazers to cap off the 4-3 win.

Conner tossed the final four innings, allowed two hits and no runs, and faced just 14 batters in the outing en route to his fourth win of the season.

NOTES
- UAB has won eight straight home games which is tied for the seventh longest active streak in D1 Baseball.
- Additionally, the Blazers have won eight straight conference games which is tied for the fifth longest streak in the country.
- Brady Waugh picked up two hits, good for his 11th multi-hit game of the season, which is tied for second on the team.
- Baylor Roberts tallied two hits of his own which was his eighth multi-hit game. The two hits were Roberts' second multi-hit game in his last three games. Roberts also registered his fourth multi-RBI game of the year.
- Roberts, Wesley Helms, Alex Dupuy, Landon Beaver, Kevin Hall Jr., and Andrew Hunt each extended their double digit on-base streaks.
- Austin Pierzynski now has a team-high 5-game hit streak.

UAB and Wichita State will play game two of the 3-game series on Saturday at Young Memorial Field. First pitch is set for 2 p.m. on ESPN+.

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