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Arnerich Lifts Red Raiders To 4-2 Win Over Kansas
April 27, 2001 | Baseball
April 27, 2001
LUBBOCK, Texas - Junior Tony Arnerich hit a two-run home run erasing a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the ninth to propel Texas Tech to a 4-2 win over the Kansas Jayhawks on Friday night before 3,281 fans at Dan Law Field.
With the win, Texas Tech improves to 33-15-1 overall and 15-9-1 in the Big 12 Conference while Kansas falls to 19-27 overall and 5-20 in the league.
Texas Tech scored the initial run of the game in the bottom of the third when junior first baseman Chad Landry hit a solo home run over the right field wall to give the Red Raiders a 1-0 lead. Kansas came back and tied the game in the top of the fourth when John Nelson scored on a sacrifice fly by Ryan Klocksien. Nelson accounted for Kansas' first hit of the game when he led off the inning with a single up the middle.
Junior Kerry Hodges gave Tech the lead in the bottom of the seventh when he scored on a wild pitch by Kansas hurler Doug Lantz. The Jayhawks wasted no time getting back into the ballgame as Brent DelChiaro doubled to left field and eventually scored on an RBI groundout by Kevin Farmer.
Senior hurler Brandon Roberson (10-3) held the Jayhawks to just three hits over the course of the game to give the Red Raiders a chance in the bottom of the ninth. Lantz struckout Nick Blankenship and Bryon Smith in the first at-bats in the bottom of the ninth before Kerry Hodges was able to drop a single into left field to keep Tech alive in the inning. Tony Arnerich stepped up in the next at-bat and picked up his first hit of the game, a two-run homer over the left field wall to give Tech the win. The home run was Arnerich's fifth of the season and first since April 7.
Brandon Roberson picked up his 10th win of the year giving Texas Tech two pitchers with 10 wins in the same season for the first time since 1997. Roberson also tossed his fifth complete game of the season. Doug Lantz suffered the loss for Kansas and fell to 2-6 on the year.
Texas Tech and Kansas will square off in the second game of the series at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Dan Law Field.
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