Baseball Drops Series Finale to No. 19 Trinity, 14-5

SEGUIN, Texas -- Texas Lutheran Baseball dropped the series finale to No. 19 Trinity, 14-5, at Katt-Isbel Field on Sunday afternoon. 

The Bulldogs (10-12, 3-3 SCAC) will return home to Katt-Isbel Field for a mid-week doubleheader against DePauw with games starting at 3 PM. The first game will be a full nine inning game with the second game being a seven-inning contest. All streaming and live stats links will be available on tlubulldogs.com.

Tyler Post (San Antonio/Johnson) was a force at the plate, going 3-for-4 with two home runs and five RBI on the day. With the two home runs, Post raised his SCAC leading total to five on the season and surpassed former high school and college teammate Joe Jimenez as well as Johnny Briseno (1996-99) on the all-time home run list to now sit at fifth all-time with 27 thus far in his TLU career. Aric Vasquez (San Antonio/Brandeis) also finished 3-for-5 with a run scored.

Diego Vinton (Richmond/George Ranch) started and pitched 2.2 innings before Blake Cappadona (Mont Belvieu/Barbers Hill) and Riley Backs (Cypress/Cypress Falls) came out of the bullpen to toss 1.2 and 2.2 innings respectively.

After the Tigers scored one in the top of the first, Texas Lutheran started strong, scoring three runs on two hits in the bottom of the inning. After getting two early runners on, Tyler Post would leave the yard for the first of his two home runs on the afternoon to make the score 3-1.

Trinity got the runs back and more in the second inning - scoring five runs on five hits to take a 6-3 lead. The Tigers would tack on another run in the third.

Tyler Post would hit a solo home run in the bottom of the third to bring the score to 7-4.

The Tigers would score for the fourth consecutive inning - crossing another run in the fourth to double up the Bulldogs, 8-4.

A two-out RBI single from Post in the bottom of the fifth scored Blake Cappadona to make the score 8-5.

After two dormant innings, Trinity would score two in the seventh and four in the eighth to go up 14-5.

Keene Kreusler (New Braunfels/New Braunfels) would pitch a scoreless final 1.1 innings with a strikeout.

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