Baseball
 

February 26, 2006

Tigers Salvage Series With Win Over Majors

San Antonio - Trinity's baseball team avoided a weekend series sweep with a 6-4 win over Millsaps College on Sunday afternoon.

Trinity (3-4, 1-2) managed four runs on four hits, taking advantage of four errors by Millsaps.  The Majors could only plate two runs on 10 hits in the game, as Trinity had strong pitching performances by its three hurlers.

Starter Drew Bignall (1-1) allowed just two runs on seven hits through 5.2 innings of work, striking out three hitters.  First-year Evan Bronson allowed three hits over the next 1.1 innings, and Brian Oates earned his first save by pitching the final two innings.  Oates did not allow a hit to any of the six batters he faced after relieving Bronson one batter into the eighth inning.

J.B. Sowyrda scored twice for the Tigers, and was 1-3 at the plate.  Ryan Cavan had Trinity's only RBI of the day.

Hunter Abrams finished 3-5 for the Majors, and Luke Morrow was 2-3 with one run and one RBI.

Trinity opened the scoring in the first when Johnny Baugus stole third and then scored on an errant throw by Majors catcher Nicky Prather.  The Tigers added two more runs in the fourth to take a 3-0 lead before Millsaps had back-to-back RBI doubles in the sixth to make it a one-run game.  Trinity added an insurance run in the sixth on another Millsaps throwing error.

Trinity will host Schreiner on Tuesday afternoon in a single game, beginning at 7:00 p.m.  The Tigers will then head to Hendrix College for a two-game road series with the Warriors.