Dylan Volantis struck out 11 over seven dominant innings as No. 6 Texas beat Missouri 6-3 behind late power from Casey Borba and Carson Tinney.
Dylan Volantis gave Texas baseball exactly what it needed Friday night: power stuff, length and a whole lot of swing-and-miss.
The No. 6 Longhorns rode a dominant start from their 6-6 left-hander to a 6-3 win over Missouri at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, moving to 38-12 overall and 17-10 in SEC play.
Volantis improved to 8-1 after allowing just one run on two hits across seven innings, matching the longest outing of his career.
Missouri briefly grabbed momentum with a leadoff home run, but that was about all the Tigers got against Volantis. After the early mistake, he retired 21 of the final 24 hitters he faced and finished with 11 strikeouts.
It was another loud statement from the sophomore, who has now reached double-digit strikeouts in four of his last five starts.
He also passed 100 strikeouts on the season, joining Ruger Riojas to give Texas its first pair of 100-strikeout pitchers in the same year since Cole Green and Taylor Jungmann in 2011.
Texas broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth when Ethan Mendoza lifted a go-ahead sacrifice fly. The Longhorns then gave Volantis breathing room an inning later.
Casey Borba hammered a two-run homer to left in the sixth, his fourth home run in his last five at-bats. The blast was also the 32nd of his career, tying him for eighth in Texas program history with Danny Peoples.
Anthony Pack Jr. followed with an RBI single later in the inning before Carson Tinney added more insurance in the eighth with a 421-foot solo homer. Tinney’s 18th of the season tied him for ninth on Texas’ single-season list.
Sam Cozart closed it by striking out the side in the ninth, earning his eighth save and seventh in SEC play.
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