Baseball
 

March 21, 2007

Tiger Baseball Opens Doubleheader With Win Over Doane

San Antonio - Trinity's baseball team opened up a Wednesday doubleheader with a 10-4 win over Doane (NE) College, securing the team's seventh consecutive victory.

Trinity (12-9) runs its home record to 8-0 this season, and all seven games of the winning streak have come at E.M. Stevens Field - the home stadium for the Tiger baseball team.

Doane actually opened the scoring with a run in the first inning, but Trinity answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning and never trailed again.  Trinity scored two more runs in the next two innings to jump out to a 5-1 lead, but Doane rallied for to cut into the lead in the fourth.

Doane scored three runs in the fourth inning, but would not score again.  Trinity scored three runs of its own in the bottom of the fourth, then added two more runs in the next four innings to account for the final score.

Tiger starter Drew Bignall was chased from the game in the fourth, but relievers Ryan Poffenroth and Clint Robertson gave up just two hits over the final 5.2 innings to secure the win.  Poffenroth (4-3) earned the win with 3.2 innings of work, striking out a career-high six batters in the game.

Nick Vera and Jeremy Bays collected three hits each in the opening game to lead Trinity's offense.  Vera was 3-4 with one RBI and three runs scored, while Bays was 3-5 with three runs and three RBI.  Bays had a double and a triple and was just a home run away from hitting for the cycle.

Steven Ramos was 2-4 with three runs scored, while Blake Holman and Andrew Lawson both finished 2-3 in the game.  Holman also added two RBI for Trinity. 

The two teams finish off the doubleheader this evening with a seven-inning game.