AUSTIN (KXAN) — Cal Poly has played the No. 16 Texas Longhorns twice in Austin and hasn’t scored a run.
Texas starting pitcher Charlie Hurley threw six strong innings while Max Belyeu and Jared Thomas belted home runs in a 6-0 win over the Mustangs on Saturday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. The win clinches the series win for the Longhorns with a possible sweep coming Sunday.
Hurley allowed four hits with three strikeouts and a walk while forcing 12 groundouts in 83 pitches. He threw 55 for strikes to notch his first win of the season. Grant Fontenot and David Shaw pitched in relief and combined to allow one hit with six strikeouts.
Belyeu hit the first home run of his Texas career in the fourth inning, an opposite-field two-run blast over the right-field wall that brought Dee Kennedy in to score. That gave Texas a 3-0 lead.
Thomas ripped a two-run homer into the Yeti Yard seating area beyond the left-center field fence in the seventh inning to make it 5-0. Both of Texas’ home runs came with two outs and the Longhorns were 4 for 11 in that situation for the game.
Texas catcher Kimble Schuessler scored twice and had two hits.
The series finale starts at 1 p.m. and will air on Longhorn Network.