San Antonio - The Tiger baseball team opened up the home portion of its schedule with a 14-1 win over Schreiner University on Tuesday night.

Trinity, which was ranked 11th in the D3Baseball.com preseason poll, improved its overall record to 4-1 this season.  The Tigers spread out 20 hits over eight innings offensively, posting the team's top scoring game of the young season.

The Tigers opened the game with a four-run first inning to take command early, then added two more runs in the second to take a 6-1 lead.  Trinity added two runs in both the fourth and fifth innings, then finished off the scoring with a four-run seventh.

Former Major League Baseball player Jerry Grote threw out the ceremonial first pitch of the game.  Grote was inducted to the Trinity Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011, and was a member of the World Series Champion New York Mets in 1969.

Three different Tiger players had three hits each in the game, led by Kevin Francke's 3-4 performance.  Francke added three runs and three RBI to his night, highlighted by his first home run of the season.  Will Donnan was also 3-4 with one RBI, while Kelly Woodruff was 3-3 with two runs scored in the game.

Jonathan Hall and Christian Muscarello were both 2-5 in the game, while Jeremy Wolf was 2-4 with a run scored.  Hall had three runs and two RBI to go with his two hits, while Muscarello added two runs and one RBI.  Carter McEachern came off the bench and cracked two hits and scored a run.

Ryan Lucero (2-0) earned the win with five innings of work, giving up a run on five hits, and striking out five batters.  Kyle Bogese struck out six batters through three hitless innings of relief, and William Wells picked up a strikeout as he finished off the final inning for Trinity.

Trinity will be back on the field on Saturday, hosting Huston-Tillotson University in a doubleheader that will begin at 1:00 p.m.