Baseball Defeats Brandeis to Clinch Series Win Saturday

San Antonio - The Trinity Tigers baseball team won its three-game non-conference home series with the Brandeis Judges Saturday, with a 17-7 victory at E.M. Stevens Field.                                                                                                            

Trinity (8-2) won the opener 15-7 last Tuesday, and Brandeis won Friday's 10-inning game 7-6.

Brandeis (1-2) opened the scoring with two runs in the top of the first inning. Trinity countered with three runs in the bottom of the inning, highlighted by an RBI triple by Evan Jones. In the third inning, Trinity scored six runs, keyed by the first of three Tiger home runs in the game. Dylan Early cracked his second homer of the season, a two-run shot. Kevin Jackson and Dom Robusto both hit their first homers of the season. Jackson, from Bellevue, Wash. (O'Dea), went 4-5 and nearly hit for the cycle, hitting a triple and a pair of singles in addition to his home run.

Nick Pappas of Los Angeles (Loyola) batted 3-3, with three runs scored. Kevin Calbick of Burnaby, British Columbia (Burnaby South Secondary), also hit 3-3 with three RBI and a pair of runs.

Junior right-hander Mike Panozzo of Houston (Clear Lake), claimed the win, improving to 3-0 on the year. He pitched six innings, allowed four earned runs, eight hits, no walks, and fanned seven batters.

Next up on the Tigers' schedule is a non-conference game Tuesday, Feb. 23, with Texas Lutheran, at 2 p.m. in Seguin, Texas. Trinity will host Texas Lutheran at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, the Tigers' next home game.