Baseball
 

February 17, 2008

Tigers Fall in Home Opener Monday Night

San Antonio - Trinity's baseball team was tripped up in Sunday's home opener, as Concordia (TX) University took a 6-4 victory.

Trinity (1-2) won the opening game of the weekend series, then Concordia won two in a row to take the three-game series. 

Tiger starter Mike Hunter (0-1) struck out three batters, but gave up six runs and four walks through three innings.  Ryan Poffenroth came on in relief, striking out five without allowing a hit in six innings.

Trinity fell behind early after scoring a run in the first, though Hunter was able to induce a double play to end the inning.  In the bottom of the first, the Tigers managed four runs on four hits to take the lead. 

Concordia loaded the bases for the second straight inning, though, and this time made Trinity pay to the tune of four more runs to take a 5-4 lead.  The three-run triple was the only extra-base hit of the game for Concordia.

The Tigers finished with three doubles overall, including two by Jordan Pennington.  Trinity left four runners on base in the final four innings - including an inning-ending double play in the eighth. 

Dominick Robusto also collected two hits for the Tigers, while Stosh Hoover finished 1-2 with two walks and was hit by a pitch to reach base four times in five plate appearances. 

Trinity will be back in action tomorrow afternoon at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, before returning home for another three-game weekend series with Rutgers University-Newark from Friday through Sunday.