ABILENE, Texas – Hardin-Simmons' baseball dropped a 26-17 slugfest with East Texas Baptist on Friday afternoon in American Southwest Conference action at Hunter Field.
ETBU started the game with a walk-home run-error-home run start. Connor Massimini and Kahne Nolen had the home runs. HSU answered with three runs in the first.
Hunter Trojacek had a home run to lead off the Cowboy first, his first collegiate home run/
Paul Samaripa had an RBI single and
Benji Fielder an RBI.ETBU took advantage of six walks and scored seven in the top of the second inning.
HSU responded with nine runs in the bottom of the inning.
Jacob Hollingsworth had a pair of two-run doubles.
Gavin Bruning and Bruning had RBI singles and
Cannon Negron added a two-run single. Bruning also had an RBI on a bases-loaded walk.
ETBU scored single runs in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth innings. Then opened the game up with eight runs in the eighth and three more in the ninth.
Hollingsworth had a two-run home run in the sixth inning for HSU and Randall Douglas had an RBI single in the ninth, Negron had a sacrifice fly and another run scored on a wild pitch.
Hollingsworth had five hits, drove in six runs and Trojacek and Fielder added three hits for HSU. Kahne Nolen drove in eight runs for ETBU and Jobee Booe led the way with four hits.
The Cowboys' 11 pitchers tossed 257 pitches and walked a school-record 20 batters and hit a school-record seven in a contest that went 4:17.
Kannon Baird,
Ian Bamburg,
Jace Martinez,
Bo Bolton,
Tanner Liming,
Bradley Fletcher,
Guy George,
Ethan Cloudt,
Noah Cervantes,
Grant Winkle and
Tabor Martin all worked for the Cowboys. Martin tossed a scoreless inning in his first career appearance.
The Cowboys are now 16-13 overall and 0-4 in league play and the Tigers improved to 22-10 overall and 4-0 in league play.
HSU will host McMurry on Monday at 6 p.m. in its next action.
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