Petty, Hughes Blast push Tech past BYU 7-4
May 17, 2025 | Baseball
Hughes hit his Big 12 leading 19th home run while Petty tossed six one-hit innings to clinch the No. 9 seed for Tech in the Big 12 Tournament
PROVO, Utah – Zane Petty took a no-hitter into the sixth and Logan Hughes added his Big 12 leading 19th home run of the season to push Texas Tech Baseball to a 7-4 victory Saturday afternoon over BYU at Miller Parker.
After the teams traded 1-2-3 first innings, Texas Tech (20-32, 13-17 Big 12) scored four times in the second to take an early 4-0 lead.
The early run support was all Petty needed in his 12th start of the season, as the righty went 6.0 innings allowing just one hit and one run. He struck out a career-high nine batters in his second win of the season.
After BYU (27-26, 10-20 Big 12) scored three times in the bottom of the seventh to cut the Tech lead to 5-4, the Red Raiders used a 1-2-3 eighth from reliver Trendan Parish and the two-run bomb from Hughes to take a 7-4 lead into the ninth.
Returning for the ninth, Parish won a 3-2 battle against Matt Hansen to put the first out on the board before losing BYU catcher Parker Goff to a walk.
Turning to Lukas Pirko with the tying run on deck, Pirko worked around a bunt single to nail down on his second save of the season on back-to-back flyouts.
Cruising through the first three innings, Petty struck out six of the first eight batters he faced including the side in a 1-2-3 second.
The 1-2-3 second came after the Red Raiders got an RBI single from third baseman Petyon Schulze, an RBI double from catcher Davis Rivers, an RBI ground out from Coleman Ryan and an infield run-scoring single from lead-off hitter Tracer Lopez.
In the top of the third, the Red Raiders took a 5-0 lead, when first baseman Robin Villeneuve doubled home Damian Bravo from first with a towering line drive off the top of the left-center field wall.
After allowing his first base runner of the afternoon on a five-pitch walk to centerfielder Crew McChensey, Petty bounced back to retire the next three batters in order to send the game to the fourth with Tech up 5-0.
Following another 1-2-3 fourth from Petty that featured his seventh strikeout of the game, the righty found his first real trouble in the fifth, when BYU used a hit-by-pitch, a walk and a wild pitch to place a pair in scoring position with one out.
Looking to limit the damage, Petty used a grounder to second and his eighth punch out of the afternoon to keep Tech in front, 5-1 and keep his no-hitter intact through five.
In the sixth, BYU loaded the bases on their first hit of the afternoon, a hit-by-pitch and a walk with two outs, but Petty got BYU third baseman Brock Watkins to groundout on his 99th and final pitch of the afternoon.
In the seventh, Tech threatened on a two-out triple from Logan Hughes, before the Cougars stranded Hughes on a first pitch flyout.
After BYU struck for three runs on a two-run single by Ryder Robinson and sac-fly, reliever Jacob Rodgers kept the Red Raiders in front by a run when he got Cooper Vest to flyout to right.
In the eighth, the teams traded zeros, allowing Tech to take a 5-4 advantage to the ninth where Tech got the 420-foot homer to right-center from Hughes to take a 7-4 lead.
The blast combined with some clutch pitching allowed Tech to nail down its 20th victory of the season and clinch the No. 9 seed in next week's Big 12 Championship.
UP NEXT:
Tech will begin its postseason journey at the Big 12 Championship on Wednesday afternoon against No. 8 seed Cincinnati. First pitch from Globe Life Field is set for 12:30 p.m.
