San Antonio - Trinity's baseball team defeated Cardinal Stritch University 13-3 in a non-conference matchup on Tuesday night.

The Tigers actually fell behind early in the ball game, as Stritch manufactured a run in the top of the first with two hits and a pair of walks.  The Wolves stranded the bases loaded in the inning, missing a chance at more runs.

In the second, Trinity was on the receiving end of three straight walks to start the inning, then had back-to-back sacrifice flies by Chris Bianchi and Kevin Francke to take a 2-1 lead.  Christian Muscarello closed out the scoring with a two-run homer - his fifth of the season - that put the Tigers up 4-1 at the time.

Stritch quickly rallied with two more runs in the third, driving home runs with a walk and a hit-batter with the bases loaded.  The Tigers added two runs in both the fourth and sixth innings to make it 8-3, though, including two bases-loaded walks in the sixth.

In the seventh, Trinity benefitted from a total of four errors by Stritch, leading to five unearned runs in the inning.  Most of those came on a grand slam by Nick Pappas, which was his fourth round-tripper of the season.

Pappas finished 2-5 with a run and four RBI in the game, while Muscarello was 1-2 with three runs and two RBI for the Tigers.  Nick Griffith had two hits to go with one run and one RBI, while Francke scored twice.  Tim Stanton collected his first career hit as a pinch-hitter in the eighth.

Tanner Barron (1-0) was credited with the win, pitching four innings of relief, giving up no runs on just one hit.  He struck out five batters, though he did issue seven walks.  Alex Herz gave up three runs on two hits through 2.2 innings as the starter, striking out four, but walking five. 

Franklin Bay and Kyle Bogese finished off the game for the Tigers, allowing one hit and zero walks in the final 2.1 innings.  Bogese struck out two batters in the top of the ninth to close the game.

Trinity will face DeSales University at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday night, then will host Southwestern University for a two-game Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference series on Saturday and Sunday.