What You Need to Know:
* Georgia State swept UT Arlington with a 2-1 (10) win, the Panthers's second straight extra-inning victory.
* GSU earned its first three-game Sun Belt Conference sweep to remain in first place in the league at 6-2.
* Cole Uvila and Logan Barnette limited UTA to one run on eight hits, and Trae Sweeting scored winning run on a wild pitch
* Panthers host Georgia Tech Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Arlington, Texas -- Cole Uvila and Logan Barnette combined to allow just one run on eight hits and Trae Sweeting scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the top of the 10th as Georgia State completed a three-game sweep at UT Arlington with a 2-1 victory in 10 innings Sunday at Clay Gould Ballpark.
The Panthers (17-12, 6-2 Sun Belt) won in extra innings for the second straight day and for the fifth time in their last 13 games to remain in first place in the Sun Belt Conference standings. GSU swept a three-game Sun Belt series for the first time and earned its first conference road sweep since 2008 at VCU, when the Panthers were in the Colonial Athletic Association.
Uvila, the junior right-hander, pitched six innings, allowing one run on six hits with six stikeouts and four walks. He worked out of bases-loaded jams in both the fifth and sixth innings. In the fifth with one run in, the Mavericks still had the bases loaded the bases with one out and looked like they were going to take the lead on Eric Tate's fly ball to Rhett Harper. But the freshman right-fielder threw out T.J. Hillman at the plate for the double play.
One inning later, Uvila got pinch hitter R.J. Williams on a called third strike with the bases loaded and two outs.
"I didn't have my best stuff today, but Joey [Roach] and Coach [Adam] Scott called a great game, and I just did everything I could to keep us in the game," Uvila said.
Barnette (3-0), a freshman, came on in the seventh and covered the final four frames to earn his second victory in as many days. In Saturday's 11-inning victory, he threw one pitch and rolled an ending-inning, double play in the bottom of the 10th to become the pitcher of record when the Panthers scored the winning runs in the top of the 11th.
The righty with a side-arm delivery shut down the Mavericks as he allowed just two hits and struck out one.
"Cole gave me a great game. When I came in, I knew I had to throw strikes because ballpark was playing really big today and they weren't going to hit any long balls," Barnette said.
Head coach Greg Frady agreed. "Today was a very difficult day to score runs, so throwing the ball in the strike zone was at a premium. We did a really good job of minimizing freebies today, and we played really good defense," he said.
UTA starter Joel Kuhnel (1-1) was also outstanding as he pitched in the 10th inning of the 1-1 game. Sweeting led off the top of the 10th with a double just inside the back at third. After David Levy bunted the runner to third, leadoff hitter Ryan Blanton was intentionally walked to put runners at first and third with one out.
Jacob Moreland relieved Kuhnel and struck out Justin Jones for the second out. Then UTA turned to lefty Zach Hobbs to face the left-handed hitting Caden Bailey. But Hobbs' second pitch to Bailey bounced in the dirt and got away, allowing Sweeting to score the go-ahead run.
UTA (12-14, 4-5 Sun Belt) put a runner in scoring position with two outs in the bottom of the ninth as Darien McLemore reached on an infield single and advanced to second on a throwing error. But Barnette got Tanner Houston to ground out to end the game.
For the third straight game, Georgia State scored a run in its first at-bat to take the early lead. Blanton led with a double to center field, moved to third on Jones' sacrifice and scored on Bailey's groundout.
Georgia State now plays eight of its next nine games at home, beginning with Wednesday's 6 p.m. game vs. Georgia Tech at the GSU Baseball Complex.
