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Box Score 2 SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Hardin-Simmons' baseball team split a pair of one-run games with No. 5 Trinity on Saturday afternoon in San Antonio, winning 2-1 in the first game and falling 6-5 in 10 innings in the nightcap.
Caidon Livingston went eight strong innings and Wyatt Tumlinson worked the ninth inning for a save for the Cowboys in a 2-1 win. Livingston went eight innings and allowed just four hits and an unearned run to improve to 1-1 on the year.
HSU scored a run in the first inning when Luke Kirkbride led off with a double moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Cole Antonelli RBI groundout.
The game remained 1-0 until the eighth inning when Jack Peterson led off the inning with a walk. He moved to third when he stole second and the throw down went into centerfield. He scored on a Ty Preston RBI single.
HSU came right back and scored in the top of the ninth when Gannon Azios led off with a double moved to third on a flyout and scored on a Kyler Reed RBI single up the middle.
Trinity threatened to score in the ninth. Nicholas Lazzara singled to lead off the inning and Jack Baker ran for him. After a strikeout, Baker moved to second on a groundout and Michael Montrezza then singled through the left side, but Antonelli came up firing from left and gunned down Jack Baker at the plate to end the game.
Kirkbride and Reed had two hits each for the Cowboys and Lazzara had two hits for Trinity.
In the second game, Trinity jumped out to a 4-0 lead after four innings. HSU then battled back as Kirbride had an RBI single in the sixth and again in the eighth. Nick Ellington scored on an error, Antonelli had an RBI single and Azios single to left to tie the game at 4-4.
Antonelli had a leadoff home run in the 10th inning to give HSU a 5-4 lead but Hunter Nevilles had a two-run single for the Tigers to win the game in the bottom of the 10th inning.
Grant Mitzelfelt started for the Cowboys and allowed three runs in two and two-third innings. Caleb Smith allowed one run in an inning and one-third innings. Kolten Kitchens worked a scoreless inning, Alex Carte worked two scoreless innings and Johnny Follett worked an inning and one-third of scoreless relief. Jaydon Stephens took the loss allowing a pair of runs. Jack Martinez the fourth Trinity pitcher earned the win with two and one-third innings of one-run relief.
Antonelli had four hits and Azios added three for HSU. Four different Tiger players had two hits each.
HSU is now 1-4 on the year and Trinity improved to 2-3. The teams will close the series with a 1 p.m. game on Sunday.
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