SEGUIN, Texas – The 19th-ranked Tiger baseball team started off its Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference weekend series with an 11-4 loss at Texas Lutheran University on Friday evening.
Trinity fell to 12-7 overall and suffered its first conference loss to drop to 3-1 in the SCAC. Texas Lutheran upped its record to 9-11 overall and an even 2-2 in league play. The Tigers took the early lead in the game, but the Bulldogs used a five-run second inning to take the lead for good.
Hunter Nevilles (Corpus Christi, Texas / Calallen) and
Colt Harris (Katy, Texas / Houston Christian) had two hits each in the game, tying three others for the team lead in hits. Both players also had home runs in the game and Harris also led the Tigers with two RBI.
Ezra Gore (Dallas, Texas / McKinney North) finished with two hits and two runs scored, including a triple.
Cristian Holloway (Brownsville, Texas / Veterans Memorial) and
Tyler Pettit (Round Rock, Texas / Round Rock) also had two hits each in the game.
Joseph Chavana (Laredo, Texas / Alexander) took the loss and fell to 2-3 this season, allowing five runs on three hits and was chased from the game in the second inning.
The two teams will continue the series tomorrow afternoon, followed by Sunday's series finale. Trinity will return home on Tuesday to begin a four-game home stand by hosting the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
The Rundown
Nevilles got Trinity on the board in the top of the first inning with his home run – a solo shot that put the Tigers up 1-0. That lead grew to three runs when Harris collected his round-tripper in the top of the second. Gore led off the inning with a triple to left-center, then Harris made it 3-0 two batters later.
Texas Lutheran began its comeback with two outs in the bottom of the second, drawing three walks to go with three hits and finishing with five runs in the inning to take a 5-3 lead. The Bulldogs added another run in the third, followed by two more in the fourth to make it a 9-3 game before the Tigers scored again.
Gore singled with two outs in the fifth, then promptly stole second to put himself in scoring position.
Michael Montrezza (Los Gatos, Calif. / Leigh) drove Gore home with a single to center to make it a 9-4 game, but the Tigers left two runners on and couldn't cut the deficit any further. That wound up being the last run of the game for the Tigers, despite finishing with 11 total hits in the game.
Texas Lutheran answered the final Trinity run with another score of its own in the bottom of the fifth, then wrapped up the game's scoring with two more runs in the sixth. Â
Up Next
Trinity and Texas Lutheran will meet again tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. for the second game of the series, then finish the weekend with the series finale at Noon on Sunday.
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