Baseball
 

February 19, 2008

Trinity Loses on Walk off Homer in the Ninth

Belton, Texas - After staging a comeback in the top of the ninth, Trinity's baseball team gave up a game-winning home run in the bottom of the inning, losing 5-6 to the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on Tuesday afternoon.

Trinity (1-3) opened the game with a run in the first inning, then took a 2-0 advantage after scoring again in the fifth.  Mary Hardin-Baylor responded with back-to-back two-run innings in the sixth and seventh take the lead, then scored again in the bottom of the eighth after the Tigers made it a one-run game in the top of the inning.

In the ninth, Trinity first-year players Kevin Calbick and John Prato Matthews delivered RBI with runners on that tied the game at 5-5, but the Tigers did leave the bases loaded in the inning - missing a chance to take the lead and possibly escape with the win.  Trinity left 10 total runners on base in the game, but managed just five total hits.

Calbick had two of those hits, finishing 2-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in two runs.  He leads the team in hitting this season, collecting seven hits in 16 at-bats - an average of .438 - in his first four games.

Stosh Hoover and Andrew Lawson both finished 1-3 and Lawson doubled in his first game of the 2008 season. 

Tiger starter Zach Bukowski gave up just one run on two hits through 5.2 innings of work, walking one batter and striking out five.  He was chased out of the game by a sixth-inning double by UMHB.  Trinity relievers gave up five runs on eight hits in the final 2.1 innings of the game - including the leadoff homer that ended the game in the bottom of the ninth.

Trinity returns home this weekend for a three-game series with Rutgers University-Newark.  Friday and Saturdy's games are scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m., while Sunday will be an 11:00 a.m. start.