SAN ANTONIO – The top-ranked Trinity University baseball team clinched its weekend series with Babson College (MA) with a 9-4 victory on Saturday afternoon.
The Tigers improved to 5-1 with the win, while the Beavers dropped to 0-2 to start the season. Trinity won 8-5 in Friday's series opener and the teams wrap up the weekend with a final game on Sunday morning. Babson led 2-1 early but a four-run second inning for Trinity put the home team in control for good.
John Ramsey (Austin, Texas / Westwood) and
Will Baker (Missouri City, Texas / Ridge Point) both went deep in today's game and they were two of the five Tiger players with multi-hit games. Ramsey was 2-for-5 with two runs scored and three RBI, while Baker went 3-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored.
Evan Kuhl (Boerne, Texas / Champion) matched Baker with three hits in the game and also had two RBI and a run scored.
Thomas Moss (Sugar Land, Texas / Kempner) and
Pierce Matthews (Carrollton, Texas / Hebron) both had two hits and scored one run each. Starting pitcher
Jake Beck (Austin, Texas / Austin) had three strikeouts but gave way to the bullpen in the fifth inning.
Jack Bussard (Reisterstown, Md. / McDonogh School) came on to earn the win and improve to 1-0, allowing just two hits over 3.1 shutout innings.
A walk and a double to start the game put Babson in front 1-0 but Beck was able to limit the damage to just the one run. Ramsey smashed a solo homer in the bottom of the inning to tie things up. The Beavers were at it again in the top of the second, stringing together three hits to produce another run and reclaim the lead. Beck struck out the side in the inning – including the last two in a row to get his offense back up to bat. Moss hit a ground-rule double with one out in the bottom of the inning, sparking a four-run frame that put the Tigers ahead for good. After an error and a walk loaded the bases, Kuhl knocked in the tying run with a bloop single to shallow center. A strikeout followed but Ramsey drove in two more runs with his two-out single and the Tigers led 4-2. Trinity finished the scoring as Ramsey got in a rundown between first and second, allowing Kuhl to come home to make it 5-2 after two.
Babson was able to get one of those runs back in the fourth and then chased Beck from the game after pairing a one-out walk with a single in the fifth. Bussard got an easy ground ball to first for the second out, then got his lone strikeout of the game to end the threat. An error by Babson in the bottom of the fifth eventually led to Baker going opposite field for a two-run homer that put the Tigers in control 7-3 after five innings.
Nicholas Jones (Southlake, Texas / Carroll) drove in an insurance run after the seventh-inning stretch, then Kuhl smashed an RBI double in the eighth to make it a 9-3 Trinity lead. The Beavers loaded the bases with one out in the ninth, but only managed to score one run in the ninth – unlike last night's four-run push in the final frame – and Trinity took the 9-4 win.
Up Next
Trinity and Babson will conclude the weekend series on Sunday morning, beginning at 10:30 a.m. The Tigers will head to Seguin, Texas, for their first road game of the young season, facing off against Texas Lutheran University on Tuesday, March 3, at 6:00 p.m.
