Baseball
 

March 17, 2008

Trinity Beats Cardinal Stritch on St. Patrick's Day

San Antonio - The Tiger baseball team celebrated St. Patrick's Day with a 14-6 win over NAIA's Cardinal Stritch University on Monday night at E.M. Stevens Field.

Trinity (12-7) scored a run in each of the first two innings to take a 2-0 lead, but Cardinal Stritch (0-9) scratched across runs in the third and fourth to tie the game.

Leading off the fourth, Jordan Pennington and John Prato Matthews cracked back-to-back doubles to break the tie, then Kevin Calbick had a sac fly later in the inning to make it a 4-2 game.  In the fifth, Jeff Claydon's two-run double made it a 6-2 lead.

After CSU grabbed two more runs in the top of the sixth, Trinity's offense answered again, cracking two more RBI doubles and scoring three runs to make it 9-4.  A leadoff homer in the top of the seventh made it 9-5, but the Tigers kept pouring in the runs, scoring twice more in the seventh inning, and three times in the eighth.

Mike Panozzo (2-1) scored the victory on the mound, allowing just two earned runs - four total - in 5.1 innings of work and striking out four batters.  Britton Horn earned his first save of the year, throwing the final 3.2 innings of the game - striking out five and allowing two runs.

Calbick finished with four RBI in the game, cracking two doubles in four at-bats on the day.  Stosh Hoover and Evan Jones had three hits each for the Tigers, as did Zach Fregosi and Jordan Pennington.

Pennington was 3-3 with one RBI and four runs scored, hitting safely in his fourth consecutive at-bat.  Fregosi also drove in three runs.  Prato Matthews and Claydon both had two hits in the game, as well as scoring a pair of runs each. 

The Tiger offense finished with eight doubles among its 19 hits in the game, and will resume its eight-game Spring Break home stand with a game tomorrow night against Concordia (NE) University.