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Box Score 2 Kerrville, Texas - Trinity's 16th-ranked baseball team extended its win streak to seven games by sweeping a non-conference doubleheader with Schreiner University on Saturday afternoon, winning 4-1 and 5-3 at Mountaineer Field.
Trinity improved to 11-2 after the two victories, while Schreiner dropped to 3-11. The two teams will play a single game at 1:00 p.m. Sunday to close out this weekend's series. The teams will face off in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference series April 18-19, as the Tigers host the Mountaineers in San Antonio.
Colin Serkowski opened the scoring in the seven-inning first game with a sizzling RBI triple in the third inning. Serkowski later scored one of two Tiger runs in the sixth, then drove home another RBI with a seventh-inning single. He finished 3-4 with two RBI and one run scored in the opening game.
Jeremy Wolf also had a pair of hits and scored a run, while Drew Butler picked up one RBI in the opening game.
Trent Rape (1-0) went the distance on the mound, and did not allow an earned run. Rape yielded only three hits and one walk, while fanning six Mountaineers in the seven-inning contest.
Game two started off differently, but the end result was the same, as Trinity rallied to sweep the day's action. After Schreiner took the lead with a two-run second inning, Carter McEachern swatted a two-run double to tie the game in the top of the fourth.
Neither team scored again until the eighth, when Trinity's Nick Jewett drove in Wolf with a two-out single. The Tigers added two insurance runs in the ninth, which proved to be crucial after the Mountaineers scratched across a run in the final frame.
McEachern hit 2-4 with two RBI in Saturday's finale, while Butler and Andrew Waters also nabbed two hits each. Butler and Waters also scored for the Tigers, while Butler added one RBI as well.
Mike Walker was the starting pitcher, going 6.1 innings, but winding up with a no-decision. He allowed just one earned run on eight hits, walking two, and recording nine strikeouts. Nick Griffith retired all five batters he faced to earn the win and improve to 2-0 on the season. Matt Tindall was on the mound for the final inning, and picked up his third save of the season.
Trinity returns home on Tuesday, March 10, facing off against Our Lady of the Lake University at 7:00 p.m.