SAN ANTONIO – The #6/9 Trinity University baseball team opened its 2026 season with a 6-2 loss against top-ranked and defending NCAA D-III National Champion the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on Thursday night.
The Tigers and Warhawks met in the D-III College World Series last year, with UW-Whitewater taking a 7-3 win in that game. The last time the teams met in the regular season, they split a four-game series in San Antonio early in the 2024 season. The Warhawks struck early with a pair of runs in the first inning and never looked back. The Tigers got a run back in the bottom of the first, but Whitewater scored four more runs in the third, fourth, and fifth innings to take a 6-1 lead. Trinity got a run back in the eighth but was limited to just four total hits in the game.
Carter Aldmon (Cypress, Texas / Bridgeland) took the loss after allowing three earned runs – four total – on five hits in 3.0 innings of work, walking three batters and recording five strikeouts.
Caden Wells (League City, Texas / Clear Springs) pitched 4.1 scoreless innings in relief to close out the game, giving up just two hits and picking up four strikeouts.
Callen Singhania (Dallas, Texas / Jesuit College Prep) had two of Trinity's four hits in the game, finishing 2-for-4 in the 2026 opener.
Will Baker (Missouri City, Texas / Ridge Point) drew two walks and scored one of Trinity's two runs, while
Nicholas Jones (Southlake, Texas / Carroll) went 1-for-3 with the only RBI of the night for the Tigers.
Khalfani Coney (Los Angeles, Calif. / Crossroads School) also went 1-for-3 in the game and
Kaleb Woodward (San Pedro, Calif. / Palos Verdes Peninsula) scored the other run.
The game opened with a leadoff walk and a single against Aldmon, who got the next two batters out and looked like he might escape the jam. Instead, UW-Whitewater got a clutch two-out double to get on the board first and lead 2-0. Baker drew a two-out walk in the bottom of the inning, stole second, and then scored on a single to left-center by Jones. That cut the lead in half, but it would be the only run for the Tigers until the eighth.
Whitewater added another run in the third on a throwing error, then chased Aldmon from the game with a leadoff double in the fourth.
John McGowan (Bethesda, Md. / Whitman) gave up an RBI single to his first batter but got the next two hitters out. Unfortunately, another two-out hit scored another run and the lead grew to 5-1. Trinity had just three base runners over the second, third, and fourth innings and was unable to answer the scoring flurry from the visitors.
The fifth inning saw the Warhawks scratch another run across and push the lead to 6-1, leading to another pitching change. Wells came in and got the strikeout to end the inning and bring the Tiger hitters up again. Trinity got a leadoff walk but was thrown out stealing and later stranded Singhania after his two-out single. A double play erased a leadoff walk for the Tigers in the sixth and both pitchers faced the minimum over the sixth and seventh innings. Trinity loaded the bases with its first three hitters in the eighth and while a run scored on the next play, it was a double play that ruined the momentum and kept it a 6-2 game. Trinity ended the ninth with Singhania throwing out a runner at home, but the Tigers went down in order to finish the game.
Trinity and UW-Whitewater will continue the series with a doubleheader tomorrow, beginning at 4:00 p.m. The series concludes on Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m.
