SEGUIN, Texas -- Texas Lutheran senior right-hander
Lincoln Baylor took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and finished off a complete-game, four-hitter in a 12-1 win Friday over 14th-ranked Centenary.
TLU, 24th in the latest D3baseball.com/NCBWA poll, dropped the opener to Centenary, 7-5 in 10 innings.
With a game remaining in the TLU-Centenary three-game series, TLU maintained sole possession of first place in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. The Bulldogs are 22-11 overall and 12-2 in the SCAC. Centenary is 24-8 overall and 9-5 in the SCAC.
The Bulldogs and Gents play a noon, 9-inning game at TLU's Katt-Isbel Field to conclude the series.
Baylor walked the very first Gents batter he faced in Friday's second game, but he faced the minumum through six because that first runner was picked off. The second Gent to reach base reached on an error to lead-off the seventh. The very next batter singled deep in the hole at second.
Baylor (5-2) struck out five and walked just one.
The Bulldogs broke the second game open with three runs in the fourth, two more in the fifth, and five runs in the eighth.
Keaton Bohrmann went 4-for-5 with three runs scored and three RBI, and
Justin Law collected three hits, two runs scored and an RBI.
Austin Frick added three hits, a run scored and two RBI.
In the early game, TLU trailed 5-3 into the ninth but rallied for a pair of runs to send the game to extra innings.
Colby Schrade delivered a two-out RBI single to tie the game at 5-5.
But Centenary bounced back with two runs in the top of the 10th. TLU started the bottom of the 10th with a walk and a single but could not get the big hit to complete another rally.
Schrade had two hits and two RBI in the opener.
Riley Schaefer contributed three hits and two runs scored.
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