San Antonio - The sixth-ranked Trinity baseball team opened its 2014 season with a 7-4 win over Chapman University on Saturday afternoon.

The Tigers improved to 14-2 in season openers under Head Coach Tim Scannell, who has also won all 10 of his season openers at home. Trinity rallied from a 2-0 deficit to earn the win, taking the lead for good with a pair of runs in the fifth inning.

Chapman opened the scoring with two unearned runs in the top of the second, scoring on a throwing error.  Trinity's Pat Hirschberg crushed a solo homer in the bottom of the inning to score the first run of the season for the Tigers, and cut the lead in half.  

Nick Jewett and Nick Griffith both drove in runs in the fifth to put Trinity in front for the first time in the game.  In the sixth, Christian Muscarello and Jeremy Wolf both drove in runs to put the Tigers up 5-2.

In the seventh, Chapman made it a 5-4 game with two runs, but the Tigers finished off the game with a two-run homer from Wolf in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Wolf was 3-4 with a triple and a homer, scoring two runs, and driving in three to lead the Trinity offense.  Hirschberg and Jewett both had two hits in the game, as did Carter McEachern.

Kyle Bogese (1-0) earned the win with nine strikeouts over 6.1 innings of work, allowing two earned runs - four runs total - and walking five batters.  Kevin Flores pitched the final 2.2 innings to earn the save in his first collegiate apperance.  Flores allowed just two hits and recorded four strikeouts.

Trinity and Chapman finish off the weekend series with a game tomorrow at noon.  The Tigers will then host 14th-ranked University of Texas-Tyler afterwards, making up a game that was originally scheduled for Friday night.