SAN ANTONIO – No. 10 Trinity University Baseball finished the three-game weekend series sweep of Concordia University Wisconsin with a 7-2 Sunday victory at the TU Baseball Field.
The Tigers (8-4) collected the third mound victory for sophomore newcomer
Jackson Teer (San Antonio, Texas / Johnson) as he went 5.1 innings with just one run with seven baserunners scattered through his performance.
Junior
Cristian Holloway (Brownsville, Texas / Veterans Memorial)—Sunday's lead-off man and designated hitter—led a well-balanced outing at the plate with two base hits including a two-RBI knock that broke the game open in the eighth.
Senior reliever
Michael Boeke (San Antonio, Texas / Antonian) came in just ahead of the four-run eighth to collect his first save of the season with three strikeouts over one-and-two-thirds, allowing just one walk.
No. 10 Trinity Baseball hosts University of Texas-Dallas (Tue.) and DeSales University (Wed.) for a pair of midweek contests ahead of a brief hiatus next weekend.
The Rundown
Lead-off knocks ruled early as Holloway and
Ezra Gore (Dallas, Texas / McKinney North) struck to open the first and second innings. While the first inning was otherwise uneventful, the senior's second-inning double opened up four hits in five at-bats.
Hunter Nevilles (Corpus Christi, Texas / Calallen) pushed Gore in after a laser through the left side from
Michael Montrezza (Los Gatos, Calif. / Leigh) moved the dual-sport Tiger to third;
Trea Verver (Cedar Park, Texas / Cedar Park) added the second with a two-ball base hit into right to bring home the shortstop.
Meanwhile, Montrezza helped keep Falcons off the basepaths for Teer, collecting grounders up the middle for double plays to finish the second and third innings.
After just two hits and a shutout through four, Teer found trouble in the fifth from Concordia: a one-out RBI-double off the wall in left-center from Brandon Niedfeldt. A hustle throw from Gore helped to keep the Falcons to just one run on the play, but two runners remained in scoring position.
A second heads-up throw in from Gore on an attempted sacrifice fly led to a double play finished off by Montrezza as he chased down Niedfeldt who had tagged for third.
The Tigers bats responded immediately.
Kai Tinker (Simi Valley, Calif. / Grace Brethren) took a 1-1 pitch over the head of centerfielder Johannes Haakensen for a one-out triple.
Nicholas Lazzara (Carrollton, Texas / Jesuit Prep) capitalized with an 0-2 knock into right to return to a two-run margin, 3-1.
After Concordia found a one-out single in the sixth, Teer was replaced by
Clayton Jackson (Allen, Texas / Jesuit Prep) on the hill. Teer's line closed at five-and-a-third with one run, six hits and a walk to a pair of strikeouts in 75 pitches.
A one-out double from Kyle Flynn led to an RBI-single for Sterling Armstrong in the seventh to give Jackson a quick hook in favor of
Jonathan Newman (Pearland, Texas / Pearland) who kept the Tigers up, 3-2 heading into the stretch.
Concordia shut down the Trinity bats through the sixth and seventh through the work of Holter Gette as he notched three punchouts through two full innings until an eighth-inning lead-off walk from
Michael Lustina (Austin, Texas / Westlake) pulled the sophomore from the mound. Gore and Montrezza bunted Lustina station-to-station and with only one out as Gore reached on an error in the field from new relief pitcher Chris Rooney.
Replacement outfielders earlier on paid off as
Ty Preston (Pearland, Texas / Pearland) and
Jack Peterson (Round Rock, Texas / Round Rock) pushed through Lustina and Gore to open the four-run eighth inning. Holloway returned to the plate finish it off, scoring Peterson and
Colt Harris (Katy, Texas / Houston Christian) who walked on four straight pitches earlier in the inning.
Boeke took over for Newman in the top of the eighth after a lead-off walk to collect to outs in a save situation, 3-2 Trinity, at the time. Now with a 7-2 advantage in the ninth, the senior posted a pair of strikeouts and left two Falcons on to maintain his first save of 2023.
Up Next
No. 10 Trinity Baseball will host UT-Dallas and DeSales for a Tuesday-Wednesday back-to-back slate.
The Tigers will then take an extended rest prior to the start of the 2023 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference schedule March 17-18 in San Antonio against Austin College. The weekend series with the 'Roos concludes a 17-game season-opening homestand.
