Bryce Hayes
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Texas Lutheran Baseball shut out the rival No. 14 Trinity Tigers, 5-0, behind a complete game shutout from Brendan Beard (Coldspring/Coldspring-
Beard, last week’s SCAC Pitcher of the Week and a candidate to win it again this week, was stellar from start to finish in his second consecutive complete game. Beard would strand 12 Tigers base runners in his shutout effort that saw him toss 161 pitches – 100 for strikes – striking out four and walking a trio to improve to 5-0 on the season. Over his last two starts, Beard has thrown 19 innings, allowing one run on eight hits while striking out 13 on 286 pitches.
San Antonio native Aric Vasquez (San Antonio/Brandeis) went 3-for-5 with a double, an RBI, and a run scored. Adam Peavy (Houston/Memorial) went 1-for-5 with three RBI, while Chance Greene (Round Rock/Stony Point) went 2-for-5 with a run scored. Carson Draehn (Brenham/Brenham) went 1-for-3 with the other RBI.
The Bulldogs took advantage of two Trinity errors in the first to get on the board with two runs behind an RBI groundout from Peavy and an RBI single from Draehn.
The two teams would trade zeroes until the eighth inning that saw the Bulldogs add three insurance runs. An RBI single from Vasquez extended the TLU lead to 3-0 before an Adam Peavy two-RBI single brought the game to its final score.
Texas Lutheran and Trinity will square off in game two as the Bulldogs will go for the series win over the Tigers on Saturday at 2 PM. The game will be streamed on Trinity’s Tiger Network. All streaming and live stats links will be available on tlubulldogs.com.