SAN ANTONIO — Southwestern baseball surrendered 18 runs in today's doubleheader against the No. 18-ranked Trinity Tigers, who completed the series sweep with 9-4 and 9-5 victories over the Pirates.
Game 1: Trinity 9, Southwestern 4
Trinity powered its way to 15 hits, including a pair of home runs, defeating the Southwestern Pirates 9-4 in the first game of the day's doubleheader.
Southwestern plated the first run on a solo home run by Jacob Tanner in the top of the second inning. After stringing together only two hits through the first three innings, Trinity broke through on Southwestern starting pitcher Travis Harvey, scoring four runs on four hits in the fourth inning.
Ezra Gore and MJ Metz opened with a single and double, putting both runners in scoring position with no outs. After Austin Davison struck out swinging, Harvey walked Tyler Pettit to load the bases. Then, Colt Harris hit a sacrifice fly to right-center to score Gore, Jackson Briese hit an RBI single to right field, and Cristian Holloway singled to third, scoring Pettit. Harvey then walked Tanner Haney to load the bases again and hit Evan McDonald to score Briese.
The Tigers added another run in the bottom of the fifth on a strikeout that turned into a wild pitch, allowing Briese to reach first and Pettit to score.
Both teams scored one run in the seventh, with Southwestern scoring on an error and Trinity scoring on a Harris home run.
Southwestern pulled to within 6-4 in the eighth, scoring on a wild pitch and a Tanner RBI single up the middle, but Trinity responded with a three-run blast by Pettit to put the game out of reach, and Southwestern only managed one hit in the ninth to end the game.
Game 2: Trinity 9, Southwestern 5
Trinity scored four runs each in the fourth and sixth innings on the Tigers' way to a 9-5 victory over the Southwestern baseball team.
Southwestern took a brief 2-0 lead in the top of the third inning on a two-RBI single by Wyatt Kuhlow up the middle, scoring Henry Fisher and Jacob Tanner. Trinity responded with a four-run fourth inning, scoring on a Jack Wisniewski RBI single through the right side, a Nathan Braulick RBI infield single, Harris RBI double, and Matt McNaney sacrifice fly.
The Tigers scored four more in the sixth. Harris hit an RBI double to right-center, followed by a McNaney RBI single up the middle. Later in the inning, Trinity executed a double steal with runners on the corners, scoring McNaney. The Tigers added the fourth run of the inning on an error.
Fisher hit an RBI single in the seventh, scoring Mims, but Trinity answered with another double steal to score Brian Schaub in the bottom of the inning.
The Pirates added two more runs in the eighth, scoring on a wild pitch and groundout, then went down in order in the ninth to end the game.
Southwestern drops to 7-8 with an 0-3 conference record. The Pirates will play at Howard Payne on Tuesday, March 22, then host a three-game series against Texas Lutheran next weekend.