Baseball
 

April 14, 2007

Tigers Salvage SCAC Saturday Split

Georgetown, Texas - Trinity's baseball team managed a Saturday afternoon split in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader with Southwestern University, winning 8-3 in the second game.

Trinity (16-20, 6-8) pounded out 11 hits in the second game, nearly equaling the team's total in the first two games of the weekend series.  The Tigers also took advantage of five walks allowed by Southwestern pitching, as well as four errors by the home team.

Another huge change in this game was the fact that it was Trinity - not Southwestern - that jumped out to an early lead.  In the first two games of this series, the Pirates enjoyed multi-run performances in the first inning.  The Tigers earned the win by taking a 5-0 lead in the first two frames for the visitors - including three runs in the first. 

Southwestern answered back with two runs in the bottom of the second, as well as answering a Trinity fifth-inning run with another run of its own; however, the Tigers put the game away with two insurance runs in the ninth to reach the final total.

Britton Horn (3-2) gave up three runs on six hits through five innings, earning the first win of the series for Trinity.  Horn did allow five walks, though three of those came in the first two innings.

Four Tiger hitters finished with multi-hit games, which included two hits and two runs to go with one RBI for Ricky Welch.  He also had one of the team's two extra-base hits in the game, getting the team off to a great start with an RBI double as the second batter of the game.

Blake Holman finished 2-3 with one run and one RBI, while Bobby Zabor and Andreas Verrios also had two hits each.  Zabor also scored twice, while Verrios drove in a pair of runs.  Holman also drew two walks to reach base in all five of his plate appearances.

Trinity and Southwestern complete the weekend series with a single game tomorrow afternoon.  The Tigers need to win to split the series.