KERRVILLE, Texas -- No. 16 Texas Lutheran Baseball hammered Schreiner with a pair of blowout victories to clinch the series on Saturday at Bob Henry Field in Kerrville. The Bulldogs won 14-1 in seven innings to even the series before securing the series with a 15-3 victory Saturday evening.
Freshman
Jack Grames (Elgin/Elgin) continued to have a stellar freshman campaign, pitching six innings and striking out four batters. He walked four and allowed one run to pick up his sixth win of the season.
Carter Conroy (Spring/Klein Cain) closed out the win with a scoreless inning of relief.
Texas Lutheran jumped all over Schreiner with a six-spot in the first inning on six hits. Back-to-back one out singles from
Brayden Sprencel (Robstown/Calallen) and
Michael Barrera (San Antonio/East Central) set the table for a two-RBI triple from
Adam Peavy (Houston/Memorial) before Peavy scored on a Schreiner error.
An RBI single from
Cooper Jen (Kyle/Hays) made it 4-0 before a sacrifice fly from
Caleb Small (Round Rock/Gateway College Preparatory) and an RBI single from
Chase Bourgeois (League City/Clear Falls) made it 6-0 TLU in the first.
Schreiner scratched a run across in the bottom of the inning to get on the scoreboard.
Bourgeois hit an RBI triple to make the score 7-1 in the third. The triple is the 14th in his career, tying Tyler Cauley for second all-time in program history.
Texas Lutheran tacked on four more runs in the fourth via an RBI single from
Caleb Alfaro (San Antonio/St. Anthony Catholic), a two-RBI double from Small before he scored on a wild pitch to end the inning.
The Bulldogs ended the game early with three more runs in the seventh inning. A two-out RBI single from Sprencel led to two of the runs as a Schreiner error also allowed Bourgeois to score. Peavy drove in Sprencel on an RBI single for the final run of the contest, making the score 14-1.
The Bulldogs clinched the series with a 15-3 win in the series finale.
Triston McGowan (Vidor/Vidor) pitched five innings and allowed two runs on six hits to pick up the win. He struck out two batters and allowed three walks for his sixth win of the year. Grames and McGown lead the SCAC with six wins each.
After Schreiner took an early 1-0 lead, Brayden Sprencel hit a two-RBI single to give Texas Lutheran a 2-1 lead and extend his hitting streak to seven games.
TLU added three more runs in the fourth on a two-RBI single from Alfaro and an RBI single from Bourgeois.
The Mountaineers got a run back in the fifth before Texas Lutheran exploded for five runs in the sixth inning, capped off by a three-run homer from Adam Peavy to blow the game open.
TLU scored five more runs over the course of the eighth and ninth innings to make the score 15-3.
Texas Lutheran will return to Katt-Isbel Field for Senior Weekend as they welcome the Centenary College Gents to Seguin for a three-game series. The series opener is scheduled for 1 PM on Thursday, April 2. The entire three-game series will be streamed on FloCollege. All streaming and live stats links can be found on tlubulldogs.com.
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