UTSA baseball clinches first Regional Championship title in program’s history

The UTSA Roadrunners’ unranked baseball team is heading to the program’s first-ever NCAA super regional tournament appearance after defeating the No. 2 nationally ranked UT Longhorns 7-4 at Austin’s UFCU Disch-Falk Field on Sunday.

Despite appearing in the NCAA postseason tournament three times before, UTSA had never won a postseason game until this past weekend, when the Roadrunners defeated Kansas State and the heavily favorited UT Austin twice to clinch the program’s first Regional Championship.

“We came to get three wins, and we got it,” UTSA head coach Pat Hallmark told reporters at a postgame press conference. “Y’all did not believe me when I said that on Friday. But the players believed it. That’s all that matters.”

Indeed, the Texas Longhorns — a program that spends three and a half times more on its baseball operations than UTSA – were favorites going into the weekend. However, a strong defensive and pitching performance from UTSA helped the Roadrunners secure the title.

“It’s hard to put into words the emotions that we were feeling,” infielder Ty Hodges told reporters. “We feel like this isn’t a surprise. We deserve to be here. We’re definitely good enough to be here, and I think we proved that.”

The Roadrunners will next take on UCLA in Los Angeles in a best-of-three series beginning Friday or Saturday.

Subscribe to SA Current newsletters.

Follow us: Apple News | Google News | NewsBreak | Reddit | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter| Or sign up for our RSS Feed

This article appears in May 29 – Jun 11, 2025.