Trinity downs Baseball twice on Friday
IRVING, Texas – The University of Dallas baseball team dropped a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) doubleheader on Good Friday to Trinity University. After being shutout 8-0 in game one, Dallas led by three runs in the second contest. However, the reigning NCAA Division III Champions scored in each of the last four innings of regulation to come-from-behind and win 5-3.
GAME 1 INFORMATION
Team Scores: Trinity University (8), University of Dallas (0)
Team Records: Trinity (18-13, 7-6 SCAC), Dallas (12-22, 3-10 SCAC)
Pitcher Records: W) Tate (3-2) , L) Hammonds (2-5)
NOTABLE STATISTICS
- Three players notched a pair of hits as Dallas produced eight overall.
- Making up this trio were: Jordan Stickler (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Seth Hanson (Apache Junction, Ariz.), and Paul Scioli (Lubbock, Texas).
- Scioli had doubles for both of his knocks to give him six on the year and five this month.
- Hanson added the other UD extra base hit with a two-bagger of his own.
- Ryan Hammonds (Cedar Hill, Texas) reached a season-high eight innings. He allowed five earned runs on 13 hits. He didn't walk a batter and fanned six.
- Trinity punched 15 hits total with five for extra bases. Four doubles came from Blake Frampton, Dalys Binder, Parker Cormack, and George Haaland.
- Scott Walters, who tripled, and Cormack each had 3-for-4 games at the dish. Haaland led all players with three runs driven in. he was hitting between number seven and nine hitters, Cormack and Zachary Oretsky. The trio combined for seven RBI at the bottom of the order with all having at least two.
- Dylan McGee stared and went three innings. Chris Tate relieved him and earned the win with 10 strikeouts over six frames.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Trinity started the game right from the start with a triple over the right fielders head. However, the Crusaders got Walters out trying to score on a fielder's choice the next at bat. Frampton had reached on the play, but was immediately picked off for the second out. Hammonds had two pick offs in the early portion of the game. Jake Martin was fanned looking to end the side.
The Tigers did score in their next turn to bat and placed three runs in the column. Three straight hitters drove in a run for the guests, but the last two were unearned as a Dallas error helped the other team out.
UD was unable to mount any run production throughout the game despite having chances. The Crusaders left eight on base. In the bottom of the fourth, the Crusaders had a leadoff double from Hanson to left field. Nathan Patton (McKinney, Texas) walked and the two reached scoring position on a wild pitch. Tate was called in to pitch for the Maroon and Gold. He retired the next three hitters – the final two via strikeout swinging – in order to maintain a three-run advantage.
That edge increased with a run in the fifth and seventh. Trinity then broke the game open with three in their final turn to bat. Hammonds had been battling to go the complete game and was greeted to a big applause as the senior likely started his final game at Crusader Field. Fellow classmate Blake Palmer (Coppell, Texas) finished the game. He struck out two hitters.
GAME 2 INFORMATION
Team Scores: Trinity University (5), University of Dallas (3)
Team Records: Trinity (19-13, 8-6 SCAC), Dallas (12-23, 3-11 SCAC)
Pitcher Records: W) Nittoli (1-1) , L) Marshall (1-3) S) Flores (2)
NOTABLE STATISTICS
- The top three hitters in the UD order had four of those base knocks.
- Hanson recorded two of them.
- The only other hit was a home run from Colby Davenport (Crockett, Texas).
- Stickler reached base for the 26th straight game with a hit.
- Davenport threw his longest outing of the year with five innings. He allowed a run on four hits.
- JP Fasone (Englewood, Colo.) reached base twice via a walk. He now has over 30 on the team and leads all Crusaders for that category. He also swiped the team's lone stolen base.
- The Tigers were led by Rafe Chaumette with a 3-for-5 result. He doubled, drove in a run, and scored. Dalys Binder and Walters added multiple hit performances.
- James Nittoli earned the win with four innings of relief. He allowed one base runner to reach via a walk. Kevin Flores got the save with a perfect ninth. Trinity's relievers faced one over the minimum in five shutout frames.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Trinity loaded the bases in the first inning and appeared primed to get on the board early again similar to the first contest. After two outs were made, Frampton and Martin smacked back-to-back singles. Binder walked to load the bases by then a fly out to right ended the inning.
The Crusaders would get on the board for the first time in 26 innings with two in the third. A one-out single by Stickler, which gave him a seven-game hitting streak, started the bottom half. Josh Abalos (Lewisville, Texas) went the other way on a successful hit and run that got Stickler on the corners. Hanson dropped down a great bunt to the pitcher and Stickler scored. Abalos was able to get to third and Patton followed with another bunt as the small ball successfully gotDallas in front 2-0.
In the next inning, Davenport helped his own cause out with the bat by belting his first career home run. He had showed bunt on the first two pitches that missed for balls prior to depositing that 2-0 pitch over the left field wall.
Davenport kept up the good work on the mound as well as he battled through five solid innings. A leadoff walk in the sixth and then Chaumette placed a single on a hit-and-run play for the Tigers that brought the tying run to the plate. It spelled the end of the freshman's day with William Marshall (Frisco, Texas) entering. Trinity got a run back as Binder singled, but then Marshall fanned two-of-three batters to get the next three outs in a row and keep it 3-1. The right-hander threw a season-high 3.2 innings, and this was the third time on the year to go at least three innings of relief.
Trinity kept chipping away and tied the game two innings later in the eighth. A two-run ninth propelled the Tigers in front for good. A two-out double by Chaumette to right center was the go-ahead RBI. Tucker followed with a single to center.
UP NEXT
Dallas will honor seven seniors tomorrow prior to the series finale and remaining home game this regular season. First pitch is slated at 1 p.m. The seven seniors that will be recognized beforehand include: Hammonds, Marshall, Fasone, Palmer, Zach San Roman (Miami, Fla.), Cole Morden (Arlington, Texas), and Eric Felchak (The Woodlands, Texas).