Baseball
 

March 31, 2007

Tigers Fall to Majors to Open Saturday Doubleheader

Jackson, Mississippi - Trinity's baseball team opened up a Saturday afternoon doubleheader with an 8-2 loss at the hands of Millsaps College.

Trinity (13-12, 4-2) falls out of first place in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference standings with the loss, while Millsaps (22-7, 7-3) takes over the top spot in the conference.

Millsaps opened up the seven-inning game with seven combined runs in the second and third innings.  Trinity scored single runs in the fifth and sixth, but the Tiger hitters were held to just six total hits in the game.

Game two of the doubleheader made it to the fourth inning before the rains hit the Jackson area, washing out the completion of the second game.  The game, which Trinity is leading 6-0, has been postponed until tomorrow.  The teams will finish that game and then wrap up the series with a fourth and final game of the weekend.

Trinity's Blake Holman was 2-3 with one run and one RBI to lead the offense, cracking his eighth double of the season. 

Michael Hunter (1-2) was charged with the loss in the game, yielding seven runs on six hits to start the game.  Ryan Hopkins pitched the final 3.1 innings, giving up just one run on five hits and striking out two batters.  His first strikeout in today's game was the 100th of his career, joining Brian Oates and Drew Bignall as current Tiger pitchers to reach the century mark.