Trinity Downs Texas Lutheran Wednesday Afternoon

Seguin, Texas – The Trinity Tigers baseball team beat the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs 12-1 Wednesday afternoon in a non-conference game at Katt-Isbel Field.

Trinity (28-7), which won its ninth straight game, had a 4-2 win on March 2 over Texas Lutheran at E.M. Stevens Field. The Bulldogs now stand at 24-10.

The Tigers, ranked 19th by the latest d3baseball.com poll, opened the game with a seven-run first inning. Nick Pappas hit an RBI single, the first of two runs he drove in. Pappas, who batted 2-5, recorded his 50th RBI of the season with a triple in the three-run third inning.

Chris Walden batted 3-5 with an RBI and two runs. Jonathan Hall hit 3-6 with two RBI and two runs, cracking two doubles along the way. Kevin Calbick hit 2-5 with two RBI and two runs, while Patrick Frasier went 2-4 with two RBI.

Left-hander Ryan Lucero (4-1) was the starting pitcher and took the victory. Lucero hurled six innings, and allowed no earned runs, four hits, two walks, and struck out four batters. Right-hander Joshua Fink entered in the seventh inning, and yielded two hits in two inning of work, while recording two strikeouts.

The Tigers scored in double figures for the third straight game and produced 15 hits in the 2-hour, 25-minute game. Texas Lutheran, which received votes in the latest D3baseball.com poll, was limited to six hits by the Tigers pitching staff.

Trinity wraps up its regular-season home schedule Saturday and Sunday, with three SCAC games against the Millsaps Majors. Saturday’s doubleheader will begin at 1 p.m., and Sunday’s single game also starts at 1 p.m.

The Tigers lead the SCAC West Division with a 13-4 mark, one game ahead of the Majors. The weekend series will determine seedings for the six-team, double-elimination SCAC Championship Tournament April 22-25 at Millington, Tenn. The tournament winner receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs.