Austin, TX
Baseball Knocks Off (RV) Texas for First Time in 53 Years – UTRGV Athletics
AUSTIN – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros baseball team scored in each of the first eight innings to beat the Texas Longhorns, a team receiving votes in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll, for the first time since 1971, 17-9 on Tuesday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
History
The win snaps a 48-game losing streak for the UTRGV (18-15) against Texas (22-16). The last time UTRGV beat Texas was in the 1971 NCAA District Championships, winning game one 1-0 and game two 4-0.
This is UTRGV’s second-ever true road win against Texas, and first since May 30, 1968, a 2-1, 10-inning victory in game two of the NCAA District Championships. UTRGV had lost 44-straight road games against Texas since then, including its first 39 games at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
The 17 runs are the most ever scored by UTRGV against Texas. The previous record was 12, set on May 27, 1973.
This is UTRGV’s largest-ever margin of victory over Texas, with the previous record being four on May 22, 1971.
This is UTRGV’s highest-scoring output since dropping 20 runs on Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on April 4, 2022 at UTRGV Baseball Stadium.
Celebratory Ticket Offer and T-Shirt Giveaway
In celebration of this historic victory, UTRGV is offering fans the chance to purchase a package containing ticket to all four of next week’s home games for just $20 at GoUTRGV.com/WeBeatTexas. The ticket package includes games against No. 24 Lamar on Monday, April 22 at 6:30 p.m. and the 3-game series against Stephen F. Austin on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 at 6:30 p.m., as well as Sunday, April 28 at 12 p.m.
The first 1,000 fans in attendance at the 6:30 p.m. game against Stephen F. Austin on Friday, April 26 will receive commemorative t-shirts celebrating UTRGV’s historic victory over Texas.
Climbing the Home Run List
Junior Sharyland alum Martin Vazquez hit his 12th and 13th home runs of the season, including a solo shot in the first to put the Vaqueros up 1-0 and a solo shot in the third to put the Vaqueros up 3-1. Vazquez is now sixth in single-season program history, passing Brandon Pimentel (2022), Andy Ness (1999), Rafael Barbosa (1983), and Bobby Joe Williams (1983), all of whom hit 12.
While posting his second-multi home run game of the season, Vazquez finished 2-for-5 with a walk, three RBI and two runs scored.
Big Day for CJ
Graduate student CJ Valdez went a career-best 5-for-6 with a season-high two doubles, an RBI, and a career-high four runs scored.
How it Happened
Jared Thomas (0-1), who started the game for the Longhorns, gave up Vazquez’s first home run and then responded by hitting a leadoff home run in the bottom of the first against junior Francisco Hernandez (3-3) to tie the game.
The Vaqueros got that run back in the second, loading the bases with two outs to knock out Thomas. Senior Kade Yorkfollowed by getting hit by a pitch to force-in a run, making the score 2-1.
After Vazquez’s second home run, the Vaqueros loaded the bases with two outs, setting up freshman Evan Janner‘s first-career RBI on a bases-loaded walk to make the score 4-1.
In the fourth, the Vaqueros put runners on the corners with one out, setting up an RBI-single by freshman Armani Raygoza and a Valdez RBI-double. Raygoza later scored on a wild pitch. Two batters after that, with the bases loaded again, York walked, senior Adrian Torres was plunked, and Vazquez walked to force-in runs, putting the Vaqueros up 10-1.
The Vaqueros loaded the bases against in the fifth. Janner was hit by a pitch and York walked to force-in runs. Torres capped the inning with a sacrifice fly to make the score 13-1.
Janner reached base five times by walking three times and getting plunked twice, driving in two runs and scoring one in his collegiate debut. York finished with three RBI.
Junior Vela alum Isaac Lopez crushed a 2-run home run in the sixth to put the Vaqueros up 15-1.
After the leadoff home run, Hernandez was dominant for 5.0 innings, striking out a career-high seven while scattering five hits.
In the sixth, Hernandez issued his first two walks to start the inning and end his night. A hit batsman loaded the bases and then Sam Ardoin drew a walk to force-in a run. Oliver Service followed with a 2-run double. One out later, Tommy Farmer IV hit an RBI-single, Jack O’Dowd lifted a sacrifice fly, and Porter Brown hit an RBI-double to make the score 15-7.
The Vaqueros got one back in the seventh, as with the bases loaded and one out, junior Steven Lancia hit into a fielder’s choice to score Janner, making the score 16-7.
In the eight, Valdez led off with a double and later scored on a wild pitch to make the score 17-7.
Senior Vela alum Nico Rodriguez halted the scoring by striking out a career-high six in a season-high tying 3.0 innings of relief.
Junior Jack Quinn struck out a career-high two in the ninth, giving UTRGV pitching 15 strikeouts for the game.
The Longhorns scored their final runs in the ninth on a 2-out infield-single by Service and a bases loaded walk by Farmer.
Next Up
UTRGV plays the first of three games at Tarleton State on Friday at 6 p.m. Fans can watch domestically on ESPN+ or internationally via WAC International.
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Amidst heightened tensions, University of Texas at Austin Police took action on Monday (April 29), issuing a dispersal order as pro-Palestine demonstrators congregated on the South Mall, establishing an encampment. Subsequently, reports emerged of Texas DPS Troopers entering the vicinity in riot gear and dismantling the encampment.
At roughly 1:30 pm CT, Texas DPS Troopers and additional law enforcement personnel descended upon the campus, erecting police barriers. Prior to this, UTPD had already dispatched a dispersal order shortly after 1 pm CT. The directive came in response to protesters assembling with pro-Palestine signs and encircling tents they had erected.
According to several users on X, the police has started making arrests and several people have reportedly being detained. Videos of police aking arrests were also shared widely on social media.
The protests at UT Austin started with a student-led walkout on April 24 (Wednesday). They demanded the university sever ties with manufacturers providing weaponry to Israel. What started as a peaceful demonstration spiraled into chaos as police, donning riot gear and mounted on horses, intervened to scatter the protesters. It culminated in the arrest of 57 individuals.
“In Greg Abbott’s police state troopers march through pro-Palestine students at the University of Texas. I’ve never seen such a surge in police force against protesters ever in my lifetime. The foreign lobby seems to be dictating domestic policy now,” one user wrote on X.
“I fully support @GovAbbott and his decisions to keep the colleges and universities safe in Texas. He is doing the right thing protecting the students regardless of race, religion, gender, etc,” another said.
“Time to withdraw all money and funds to the terrorist supporting Universities these #WokeKids don’t even know what they’re protesting @UCLA @UOCuniversity1 @UniversityOfTexas @Harvard @Columbia,” wrote one user.
The Texas Division of Emergency Management has plans for a $423 million headquarters and emergency operations center in Austin, Texas, the Austin Business Journal reported.
The TDEM is overseen by the Texas A&M University System, whose Board of Regents first approved the project, with a $360 million budget, last November. In February, the board approved a more extensive—and expensive—plan totaling $423 million.
The project reportedly will combine steel-framed and mass timber construction. Work is expected to begin next month.
A new campus with more meeting space
As things stand currently, TDEM occupies offices at 313 Anderson Lane, near the intersection of Interstate 35 and Highway 183, but this location reportedly has limited meeting space. In addition, the agency leases about 25,000 square feet of meeting rooms at a nearby hotel and has also converted 10 to 15 guest rooms there into additional meeting spaces.
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The plans approved in November specified a 296,000-square-foot campus on 48 acres at 4125 S. Farm-to-Market Road 973, east of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The complex would have included a five-story office building and the new state emergency operations center, but the recently approved amendment expanded the scope.
The extra funding will add a 38,000-square-foot sixth floor to the office building, as well as expand the overall property with a 15,400-square-foot warehouse, a 900-space parking garage and a 1,200-square-foot secure facility for the processing of sensitive compartmented information.
The new emergency operations center will be 90,068 square feet and designed to withstand 200 mph windstorms. The building is set to include meeting rooms and spaces for a joint information center, press conference room and GIS workroom.
Austin’s office pipeline soars
Austin had some 4.3 million square feet of office space under construction as of March, representing 4.6 percent of total stock, according to a recent CommercialEdge report. The metro lagged Dallas-Fort Worth, (more than 5.1 million square feet in the development pipeline), but surpassed Houston (about 1.8 million square feet underway).
Notable office projects that came online in Austin in the first quarter of this year include Uptown ATX ‘s One Uptown, a 381,739-square-foot Class A mid-rise that is part of Brandywine Realty Trust’s 66-acre mixed-use community dubbed Uptown ATX. At full build-out, the campus will include 3.2 million square feet of residential, retail and office space.
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Pets Allied Workers (APAW) at Austin Pets Alive! (APA) prepared for a milestone Sunday at Texas AFL-CIO Headquarters in preparation to cast their ballots on May 1st.
The vote will decide whether to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 776.
Austin Pets Allied Workers is organizing to address critical issues, which include workplace safety and conditions, animal welfare policies, and fair compensation.
“We at Austin Pets Alive have been working to unionize for quite a while,” said Austin Pets Alive! data analyst Ellis Avallone. “Animal welfare as a whole is a pretty underrepresented industry in the labor movement, we were really excited to take this step and advocate for better working conditions and better living conditions for our animals.”
The National Labor Relations Board has confirmed that mail-in ballots will be sent out on Wednesday, May 1st. This is the same day the onsite vote will take place, with the final tally of both mail-in ballots and in-person votes scheduled for Friday, May 24th.
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