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TWO INNINGS STALL PIRATES AT HOME AGAINST TEXAS LUTHERAN

TWO INNINGS STALL PIRATES AT HOME AGAINST TEXAS LUTHERAN
Posted: Apr 06, 2010

GEORGETOWN, Texas - Texas Lutheran scored eight runs in the first inning and nine in the final inning to hand Southwestern a 22-10 loss on Tuesday afternoon. The loss drops the Pirates to 11-21 on the year while Texas Lutheran improves to 22-8.

Texas Lutheran came out strong with eight runs in the opening inning that included a grand slam from Haines. Southwestern slowly began to chip back at the lead, manufacturing one run in the first and second and then added four runs in the fourth, cutting the lead to five 11-6.

After a plethora of defensive changes in the fifth for the Pirates the Bulldogs posted two more runs on the board with a lead-off triple by Nokelby followed by a single and double. Bender worked his way out of the inning after forcing a couple of pop-outs and struck out Griffith.

The new batters started strong at the plate as Jay Sterling singled to right field and Matt Clark followed with another single, advancing a hustling Sterling to third base. He was brought in by Eric Ramos’ infield single. Nick Mace drew a walk to load the bases for Kyle Belski. Belski rose to the challenge as he had done all day, walking in another run and Cray Betts followed suit with another walk for the third Pirate run of the inning and keeping the bases loaded. After all was said and done SU had cut the lead to four, 13-9, heading into the sixth.

A leadoff triple by the Bulldogs in the seventh was fruitless as the Nick Mace and the SU defense forced two shallow fly balls and Mace sat down the final batter himself to keep TLU within striking distance.

After a scoreless sixth and seventh for both teams Texas Lutheran jumped back on the board and put the game out of reach for Southwestern with nine runs in the eighth. SU only scored one in the bottom of the inning and TLU left Georgetown with the 22-10 run rule victory.

Belski was 3-4 on the afternoon with three RBI's to lead the way for Southwestern. Nokelby led for the Bulldogs going 3-4 with three RBI's and three runs.

Southwestern returns to SCAC action this weekend with a three game series at Millsaps College.