Texas Tech Drops Final Game, Series to UCF

LUBBOCK, TX — Davis Rivers drove in four runs and homered for Texas Tech, but it wasn’t enough as the Red Raiders dropped a 15-6 decision to UCF on Sunday afternoon at Rip Griffin Park.

Rivers finished 2-for-3 with a two-run home run and an RBI double, accounting for four of Tech’s six runs. Logan Hughes extended his team-best on-base streak to 34 games, and Damian Bravo added an RBI double, but the Red Raiders (18-30, 12-15 Big 12) were unable to recover from an early 6-0 deficit.

UCF (27-24, 8-19 Big 12) scored four runs with two outs in the first inning off Texas Tech starter Zane Petty and added two more in the second on a two-run homer. Petty allowed seven earned runs on eight hits over three innings in the loss.

Rivers got Tech on the board in the second with an RBI double before Bravo cut the deficit to 7-2 with a double in the third. In the fourth, Rivers pulled the Red Raiders within 7-4 with a towering two-run homer — his fifth of the season — off the scoreboard in right-center.

After UCF tacked on a run in the fifth, Hughes answered with his 17th home run of the year, a solo shot that made it 8-5. Rivers added a fourth RBI with a sacrifice fly in the sixth, trimming the lead to 8-6.

The Knights pulled away in the seventh, scoring four runs with the help of a two-RBI single by Antonio Jimenez. Jimenez finished the day 5-for-5 with five RBIs and four runs scored. Freshman Mateo Gray capped the UCF offensive surge with a three-run homer in the ninth.

UCF's Andrew Williamson also had a standout performance, hitting for the cycle with a 4-for-5 afternoon that included a triple, double, home run, and single.