Baseball Blasts St. Thomas, 13-1

WEIMAR, Texas -- Texas Lutheran Baseball blasted St. Thomas 13-1 in eight innings to open the series against the Celts on Friday at Veterans Memorial Park. The Bulldogs (13-12, 4-3 SCAC) were relentless at the plate, hammering out 13 hits, including three home runs, three doubles, and a triple.

Blake Cappadona (Mont Belvieu/Barbers Hill) set the table at the top of the Bulldogs order, going 2-for-4 with a triple, a homer, and two runs scored. Tyler Post (San Antonio/Johnson) went 2-for-4 with a homer - his third consecutive game with a home run - and three runs scored. Alec Sanchez (Waxahachie/Waxahachie) went 1-for-4 with a two-run homer. Niko Garcia (Houston/Langham Creek) and Randy Huerta (New Braunfels/New Braunfels) drove in two runs each.

Blade Strzelczyk (San Antonio/East Central) tossed a complete game and allowed just one unearned run on three hits to pick up his first win of the season and his first career win as a starter.

After a leadoff triple from Cappadona to start the game, Aric Vasquez (San Antonio/Brandeis) got the Bulldogs on the board in the first inning with an infield single to the shortstop. St. Thomas would respond with their lone run of the game in the bottom of the inning to tie the game 1-1.

Texas Lutheran came right back in the top of the second, as Cappadona launched a three-run home to give TLU a 4-1 lead.

The Bulldogs offense kept it up in the third, scoring three runs with Tyler Post scoring on a wild pitch before a two-RBI single from Randy Huerta would give the Bulldogs a 7-1 lead.

After coming up empty in the fourth, Niko Garcia got the Bulldogs going with a one out, two RBI double to extend the Bulldogs lead to 9-1.

Post then blasted his SCAC-leading seventh home run of the season, a solo home run, as TLU approached run-rule territory with a 10-1 lead.

Texas Lutheran scored three more on two hits in the eighth to fully enter run-rule territory. Holden Philippus (San Antonio/San Antonio Christian) scored on a wild pitch before Alec Sanchez would hit his first homer of the season, a two-run blast, to score the game's final runs.

Texas Lutheran has scored 41 runs over the course of their last three games.

Texas Lutheran is scheduled to close out the series on Saturday, April 1, as the teams will meet for a doubleheader scheduled for 1 & 4 PM. All streaming and live stat links can be found on tlubulldogs.com.