(Seguin) – The Texas Lutheran Bulldogs gave new Head Coach Rick Heines his first win (in his first game) as head baseball coach of the Bulldogs on Saturday.
TLU rolled to a 10-1 victory over the Schreiner Mountaineers on Saturday before splitting the final two games of the non-conference series on Sunday with a 7-3 loss and a 17-7 win.
Matthew Hickey tossed six innings of three-hit baseball on Saturday, and Tyler Cauley hit a two-run home run and had two hits.
Hickey struck out five and worked around three walks.
The Bulldogs led 4-1 after four innings and added a pair of runs in the sixth and four runs in the eighth.
Austin Colon drove in a pair, scored twice and had two hits, and Cullen Motsinger drove in three with two hits.
Brendan Beard picked up his first career save with three scoreless innings of relief. He struck out four.
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.