Box Score Georgetown, Texas - The Tiger baseball
team won its third Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
Championship of the last four years with a 9-3 victory over
Centenary College on Sunday afternoon.
Trinity jumped out to a 4-0 lead with two runs in each of the
first two innings of today's game, and never looked back. The
Tigers beat the Gents twice in the SCAC Tournament, after losing
four of five regular season meetings in the series.
The Tigers led 6-0 before Centenary finally got on the board in
the bottom of the sixth, but Trinity promptly answered with a run
of its own in the next frame to make it 7-1. Kevin Francke
crushed a two-run homer in the ninth for an additional cushion.
Centenary scored twice in the bottom of the ninth, but it was
not enough to catch up to the Tigers.
Francke finished 3-4 with three runs and three RBI to lead
Trinity's offense, which finished with 12 total hits in the
championship game. Connor Moore scored four of the team's
nine runs, meaning the duo scored seven of the team's nine runs
from the top two spots in the batting order.
Jonathan Hall went 2-5 with two RBI, while Pat Hirschberg and
Kevin Clements also nabbed two hits each. Hirschberg and
Moore both drew three walks in the game, and Centenary issued a
total of eight walks to Trinity batters.
Zack Speer improved to 8-0 on the season, scattering six hits
over eight innings of work, allowing just one run, and striking out
five batters. Speer leads the Tigers with an ERA of 1.47 in
10 appearances this season.
Trinity won its eighth overall SCAC Championship (as well as a
CAC title in 1990), and its seventh under Head Coach Tim Scannell.
With the win, the Tigers qualify for the NCAA Playoffs for
the fourth consecutive season.