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Bats power UH baseball past Wichita State in AAC tournament opener

A four-hit night from Santiago Garcia and a go-ahead two-run homer from Ryan Hernandez in the seventh inning lifted UH baseball over Wichita State 10-7 on the opening day of the American Athletic Conference tournament in Clearwater, Florida.

“They’re so gritty,” said UH baseball head coach Todd Whitting. “Things haven’t gone our way a lot throughout the season but they just don’t quit and you saw that tonight.”

Garcia, a graduate student who spent 2017-21 at Alabama State, entered the night batting .185 on 27 at-bats but was penciled into the lineup on Tuesday night because Wichita State southpaw Caden Favors got the start on the mound for the Shockers.