Conway, Arkansas - Trinity's baseball team was shut out for the first time this season in a 5-0 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference loss at Hendrix College on Saturday afternoon.

Trinity fell to 21-7 overall this season, and 9-4 in SCAC play.  The Tigers remain atop the SCAC West Division standings by a 1/2 game over Millsaps.

Saturday marked just the third time that a Trinity baseball team has been shut out since the 2007 season.  The Tigers were blanked in a 2007 game against Austin College and a 2009 game against Millsaps.  Coming into the game, Trinity was averaging more than nine runs per game.

Hendrix held Trinity to just three hits in the game, which opens a two-game SCAC weekend series.  Earlier this season, Trinity swept three games from the Warriors in San Antonio.

Kyle Felix, Jonathan Hall, and Christian Muscarello were the only Tiger players with hits.  Felix hit did his 61st career double, though, tying Hendrix's Daniel Ward for the second-most in SCAC history.

Ben Klimesh (7-1) suffered his first defeat of the season, giving up four runs on 10 hits through 6.2 innings, though he did strike out nine batters in the game.  The nine K's put Klimesh in 12th in school history with 185 in his career, passing Pat Hernandez (1981-83) and current pitching coach David Smith (1999-02) on the all-time list.

Hendrix opened up the scoring in the second inning with a pair of singles and a sacrifice bunt to take the 1-0 lead, and that would be all that was needed for Teddy Smoyer.  Smoyer struck out six in the complete-game shutout victory.  The Warriors added runs in the third and fourth to go up 3-0, then finished off the scoring with single runs in the seventh and eighth innings.

Trinity and Hendrix conclude their regular season series with a game tomorrow at noon.  The Tigers return home on Tuesday to take on Texas Lutheran University at 7:00 p.m.