Box Score
Coming off three consecutive shutout victories last weekend, Dallas Baptist (15-5) was shutout on the road at No. 15 Texas on Tuesday night at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in Austin, Texas.  The Longhorns scratched a run across in the first inning on a Mark Payton RBI triple and that would be all the offense Texas (16-6) would need, as Lukas Schiraldi held the Patriots scoreless through his eight innings of work.  DBU was able to just manage two hits on the night off Schiraldi.

The Patriots' Cody Beam made his first start of the season and worked one inning on the mound.  Beam, who went 5-1 last year as a starter in the weekend rotation, is coming off an arm injury and allowed one run in an outing that consisted of 18 pitches.

Texas tacked on to their one run lead with a pair of runs off Patriot reliever, Sean Stutzman, in the third.  The Longhorns first run in the inning came on a C.J. Hinojosa single that plated Ben Johnson.  Collin Shaw followed with a double that allowed Payton to score from second. 

After sophomore left-hander, Philip Orr, kept Texas scoreless in his inning-and-two-thirds on the mound, the Longhorns touched Josh Urban for two runs in the sixth.  Urban, who pitched at Texas for three seasons before transferring to DBU, gave up his first run since February 25 at UT-San Antonio.

The Patriots threatened in their half of the sixth with runners at first and second and one out, but a double play ball off the bat of Daniel Salters got Texas out of the jam.  It would be one of three double plays the Patriots would hit into on the night.

Aside from a David Martinelli single in the second inning, DBU's only other hit was a dribbler off the bat of Mike Wesolowski that rolled a few feet up the first base line in foul ground before rolling back into fair territory.  "I thought Schiraldi did a really good job of commanding his change-up all night," DBU Head Coach, Dan Heefner said.  "I felt like we hit a few balls hard, but our approach at the plate has to be better than it was tonight."

On the mound, the Patriots used five pitchers as Brandon Koch tossed an inning-and-a-third and worked out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh to escape unscathed.  Joseph Shaw came out of the pen to pitch a scoreless eighth. 

The loss snaps a six-game win streak for DBU and wraps-up the team's four-game road trip.  The Patriots will return home to Horner Ballpark for game one of a three-game series on Friday versus Utah Valley.  First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 pm.