Tyler, Texas - Trinity's 16th-ranked baseball team lost its second consecutive game to finish off a weekend of action away from home on Sunday, falling 4-2 against the University of Texas-Tyler.

With the loss, the Tigers settle for a regular season split against the Patriots, following Trinity's 9-7 win in San Antonio to open the 2015 campaign.  Trinity is now 4-2 following today's defeat, while Tyler evens its season record to 3-3.

The Patriots opened the scoring in the bottom of the third inning, plating a pair of runs on two hits and a passed ball.  Texas-Tyler then went up 4-0 with two more runs in the fifth, scoring after being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, and then again on a bases-loaded walk.  

The Tigers left the bases loaded in the fourth, as well as stranding two more in the fifth.  All told, Trinity left 10 runners on base in the game.  

Trinity finally got on the board in the top of the sixth, taking advantage of a leadoff double by Drew Butler.  T.J. Garhart drove Butler in on a fielder's choice to pick up the first of his two RBI on the day.  His second RBI came in the eighth, as Trinity cut the lead to 4-2, but that would be the end of the day's scoring for both teams.

Brendan Meyer (0-1) was charged with the loss, allowing four runs on four hits over the first four innings.  Trent Rape was solid in relief for the Tigers, throwing four shutout innings to cool off the Texas-Tyler offense.  Rape gave up just one hit, and struck out five batters.

Colin Serkowski picked up three hits to lead Trinity, while Butler and Carter MacEachern both finished 2-4 in the game.  Butler's double in the sixth was the only extra-base hit of the game for either team.

Trinity returns home this weekend, opening up a three-game Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference series with the University of Dallas on Saturday.  The teams play a doubleheader starting at 1:00 p.m.  The series finale will be Sunday afternoon, and will also be a 1:00 p.m. start.