Baseball
 

March 16, 2008

Tigers Beat Hendrix on Sunday to Take Weekend Series

Conway, Arkansas - Trinity's baseball team held off Hendrix College for a 10-7 win on Sunday afternoon, securing its third win in four games of the weekend series.

Trinity (11-7, 3-1) opened up the game with five runs to take the early lead, then answered Hendrix's run in the bottom of the first with three more scores in the third to make it 8-1. 

After a four-run third inning for Hendrix, though, the lead was down to just three runs.  The home team was not done yet, though, scoring once in both the fourth and fifth innings to cut the lead to just one.

In the top of the sixth, Trinity's offense was finally able to answer with a run of its own, then added an insurance run in the ninth to complete the scoring.

Drew Bignall started the game for the Tigers, giving up six runs on nine hits, though just two of those runs were earned.  Clint Robertson (1-0) threw the final 4.1 innings without allowing a run on four hits to earn the victory.

Dillan Early and Steven Ramos led Trinity's offense with three hits each, and both players also finished with two RBI and a run scored.  Evan Jones went 1-4 with two runs and two RBI to increase his team-leading RBI total to 28 on the season.

Trinity returns home tomorrow night to take on Cardinal Stritch University in a single game at 7:00 p.m.  The Tigers play all week at home, including a four-game SCAC series with Southwestern this weekend.