RICHARDSON, Texas – The Trinity University baseball team lost an 8-3 non-conference road game against the University of Texas-Dallas on Tuesday afternoon.
The Tigers suffered their third consecutive loss and their second this season to the Comets, falling to 20-13 overall. UT-Dallas improves to 21-12 with the win, sweeping the home-and-home series with Trinity.
Trinity cut a 4-1 deficit to just one run in the top of the sixth, but UT-Dallas scored four more in the sixth and seventh to pull away and take the win.
Ty Preston (Pearland, Texas / Pearland) went 3-for-3 with a walk, while
Michael Montrezza (Los Gatos, Calif. / Leigh) scored twice and drove in another run with his solo homer in the second inning.
Michael Lustina (Austin, Texas / Westlake),
Jack Peterson (Round Rock, Texas), and
Colt Harris (Katy, Texas / Houston Christian) had two hits each in the game.
Jack Schmitt (St. Louis, Mo. / Lafayette) took the loss and fell to 0-2 this season, allowing three runs on four hits over two innings in relief.
Jonathan Newman (Pearland, Texas / Pearland) and
Luke Pfeiffer (Valencia, Calif. / Trinity Classical Academy) pitched the final two scoreless innings without allowing a baserunner.
The Rundown
Trinity left a pair of runners on in the first inning but still managed to score the game's opening run with Montrezza's two-out homer in the second. UT-Dallas matched the Tiger run with a score of its own in the bottom of the inning. The Comets drew three straight walks before an infield single brought in a run. Trinity's defense got a double play to end the inning with the score tied 1-1.
While Trinity stranded two runners in both the third and fourth innings, UT-Dallas added three total runs in the two innings to take a 4-1 lead. Lustina doubled with one out in the fifth and then scored on a groundout by
Ezra Gore (Dallas, Texas / McKinney North) to make it a 4-2 game.
Montrezza and Preston both walked in the sixth to set up
Tyler Pettit (Round Rock, Texas / Round Rock) for a two-out scoring chance, and Pettit delivered an RBI single to center to make it a one-run game. After two walks (one intentional) and a hit batter in the bottom of the sixth, UT-Dallas put together back-to-back RBI hits to score three runs. The Comets added the final run of the game with another RBI double to make it 8-3 heading into the eighth.
While Pfeiffer and Newman kept UT-Dallas off the base paths, Trinity also had just one runner in the eighth and ninth and was not able to mount a comeback.
Up Next
Today finished off Trinity's longest road trip of the season (eight games) and the Tigers will conclude the regular season home schedule by hosting Schreiner University for a three-game series. The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference weekend begins on Friday night. Prior to Saturday's doubleheader to finish the series, Trinity will also honor the Tiger Seniors.
