San Antonio - The Trinity Tigers baseball team
opened a three-game non-conference series with a 15-7 victory
Tuesday night over the Brandeis Judges at E.M. Stevens Field.
Trinity, which won its sixth straight game, improved to 7-1.
Brandeis now stands at 0-2. The two teams will meet again at 7 p.m.
Friday, and 1 p.m. Saturday.
The Judges scored first in the 3-hour, 15-minute game, with one
run in the top of the third inning. But the Tigers countered with
seven runs in the bottom half of the inning, keyed by a two-run
home run by first-year second baseman Kevin Clements, his second of
the season.
After Trinity scored a run in the fourth, and Brandeis added
three in the sixth, the Tigers produced three runs in the bottom of
the inning - highlighted by a two-run round tripper by junior
catcher Kyle Felix, his second homer of the campaign. The Judges
would score three times total in the seventh and eighth, and
Trinity had a four-run seventh inning that put the home team up
15-6 at the time.
Tiger sophomore right-hander Ben Klimesh of Wilmette, Ill. (New
Trier), was the starting pitcher, and captured the victory. Klimesh
(2-0) hurled six innings, and allowed four earned runs on six hits,
fanning seven batters and walking just one.
Felix hit 2-4 with four RBIs and three runs in the game, pushing
him to the 150-hits plateau in his career.
Sophomore left fielder Nick Pappas of Los Angeles (Loyola)
batted 3-4, with two RBIs, two runs, and two doubles. Senior first
baseman Evan Jones of Hillsborough, Calif. (Junipero Serra),
accounted for three RBIs. First-year shortstop Jonathan Hall of
Kenilworth, Ill. (New Trier), produced four of the Tigers' runs,
while batting 2-4.
