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Tyler Post (photo by Jacob Coronado)
Tyler Post (photo by Jacob Coronado)

Bulldogs, Mountaineers split Sunday non-conference doubleheader

SEGUIN, Texas -- Texas Lutheran and Schreiner split a non-conference baseball doubleheader Sunday at TLU's Katt-Isbel Field.
 
Schreiner took the early game 7-3, and TLU bounced back for the late-game victory, 17-7.
 
TLU won the non-conference series, two games to one. The Bulldogs won the first game of the three-game set 10-1 on Saturday night.
 
In the late game Sunday, Bulldog designated hitter Tyler Post belted a pair of home runs. Post hit a two-run shot in the fourth with TLU trailing 3-0. He added a three-run homer in the Bulldogs' three-run sixth.
 
TLU scored seven runs in the fifth inning to blow the game open.
 
Cole Irby went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and an RBI. Joe Jimenez drove in three, and Tyler Cauley doubled twice and drove in a pair.
 
Logan Fisher picked up the win in relief. The right-hander went 1-1/3 innings and allowed just one hit.
 
TLU finished the late game with 15 hits, and the team did not commit an error.
 
In the early game, a seven-inning game, Schreiner's Garrett Whitley pitched 6-2/3 innings. He scattered nine hits and allowed three earned runs. Josh Gilliam recorded the last out to notch the save.
 
Cauley and Jimenez each homered for TLU in the early game.
 
TLU hits the road on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. contest at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.