Box Score San Antonio - The 16th-ranked Tiger baseball team edged DeSales (PA) University 4-3 Thursday night at the Trinity Baseball Field.
Trinity won its fifth straight game and improved to 9-2 on the season, while DeSales dropped to 2-3 with its second consecutive defeat.
DeSales got on the board with a run in the top of the first inning. The Tigers countered in the second as Austin Singer cracked an RBI single to center field in the bottom half of the second. The Bulldogs again took the lead in the see-saw game, with a two-run third inning.
The Tigers regained the lead by producing three runs in the fourth inning, which would prove to be the final scoring plays of the game. George Haaland hit an RBI single to start the process. The next two runs came off bases-loaded walks of Colin Serkowski and Jeremy Wolf.
For the rest of the game, the Tigers did not record a hit, while the Bulldogs had three. Trinity scattered four hits in the matchup, while DeSales made 10. Carter McEachern and Jose Santos also crossed the plate for the Tigers.
Zack Speer started the game, and hurled 5.2 innings for the victory. Speer (3-0) allowed nine hits, two earned runs, four walks, and struck out six batters. Nick Griffith pitched for 2.1 innings, and Matt Tindall picked up his second save of the season by striking out the side in the ninth.
Trinity travels to Kerrville, Texas, Saturday for a doubleheader with Schreiner University, starting at 1:00 p.m. Sunday's single game gets under way at 1:00 p.m., and then the Tigers return home Tuesday to host Our Lady of the Lake University at 7:00 p.m.
