San Antonio - Trinity's 11th-ranked baseball team suffered a 17-4 loss to ninth-ranked Chapman University on Friday night.

Trinity fell to 12-2 with the loss, which is the team's worst defeat since an 18-5 game against Millsaps in 2007.

The Tigers gave up five runs in the first inning - including a solo home run to the first batter of the game.  In the second, Trinity allowed eight more runs to make it 13-0 after two innings. 

Josh Fink (3-1) was charged with the loss, allowing 10 runs on five hits, but just six of the runs were earned.  He allowed a home run to the leadoff batter in the game, then hit a batter, and issued a walk.  After settling in with two strikeouts, a Tiger error extended the inning, and led to four more runs.  Fink was unable to recover after that.

Trinity finally got on the board in the fourth inning, plating four runs on a couple of hits, and also taking advantage of two Chapman errors.  Kyle Tachibana allowed no runs on just two hits over the final 5.2 innings, striking out six, and picking up the victory to improve to 1-0. 

Tiger relivers Tanner Barron and Matthew Tindall combined for 4.2 innings of relief, giving up one hit each in the middle innings.  Barron struck out three batters.

Christian Muscarello was 2-4 with a run and two RBI for the Tigers, picking up a triple and a double in his first two at-bats.  Jonathan Hall was 1-3 with one run and one RBI.

The three-game weekend series continues with 1:00 p.m. game tomorrow, then finishes with a Sunday afternoon game.