San Antonio - The Tiger baseball team won its 20th game of the season with a 5-2 victory over the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on Tuesday night.

Trinity (20-4) moved up to second in the latest Division III polls released by both the American Baseball Coaches Association and D3Baseball.com this week.  The Tigers have won five consecutive games and 14 of their last 16 contests.

The Crusaders actually out-hit Trinity 7-6 in the game, but the Tigers took advantage of four UMHB errors to score four unearned runs in the game.  

Trinity started the scoring with a two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning by outfielder Pat Hirschberg, who was 2-4 with one run and two RBI in the game.  

After the Tigers took the early advantage, the Crusaders rallied with runs in the second and third innings to tie the game, but Trinity quickly reclaimed the lead with a run in the bottom of the third.  The Tigers added insurance runs in the fourth and seventh to finish off the scoring.

Zack Speer (3-0) earned the win with six strong innings of work.  He gave up two runs on six hits, striking out nine batters.  Troy Ward came on to pitch the final three innings in relief, allowing just one hit and striking out five batters to earn the save.

Trinity opens up a four-game series against Rockford (IL) College on Friday night at 7:00 p.m.  The teams play a doubleheader starting at noon on Saturday, then finish the weekend with another 12:00 p.m. game on Sunday.