Irving, Texas - Trinity's baseball team earned a 12-1 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference victory over previously unbeaten University of Dallas on Saturday afternoon, taking sole possession of first place in the West Division standings.

Trinity moved to 11-1 overall, and 3-0 in SCAC play, while Dallas fell to 9-1 this season, and 2-1 in the conference.  The game was shortened to seven innings due to the 10-run rule.

Ben Klimesh improved to 5-0 this season with another outstanding performance.  Klimesh struck out a career-high 14 batters in the game, giving up just one run on five hits, and walking zero batters.  He struck out at least one batter in every inning of the game, and all but two innings ended with a Klimesh strikeout.

The Tiger offense made it that much easier for Klimesh, though, staking him to a 3-0 lead before he even took the mound.  Pat Hirschberg's two-run home run capped the three-run first, giving Trinity the eventual game-winning runs just four batters into the game.

Trinity came out with three more runs in the third, then added single runs in the fifth and sixth to push the lead to 8-0.  Dallas finally got on the board in the bottom of the sixth, but Christian Muscarello's leadoff homer in the seventh sparked a four-run inning by the Tigers, putting the game out of reach.

Offensively, Trinity pounded out 15 hits overall, with three Tiger players collecting three hits each.  Dominick Robusto was 3-5 with two runs and one RBI from his leadoff spot, while Hirschberg and Muscarello also had three hits each.  In addition their home runs, both Tiger players also had doubles in the game, and drove in two runs each.  Hirschberg also scored three times.

Kelly Woodruff was 2-3 with a run scored, while Jonathan Hall finished 1-3 with two runs and one RBI.  Nick Pappas, who drove in the game's first run with a single in the first, was 2-4 with two runs and two RBI.

Trinity and Dallas conclude the weekend series with a single game tomorrow afternoon, also at 1:00 p.m.