Cowboys Split Doubleheader With Texas-Dallas
By: Eric Boynton
Updated: March 13, 2013
ABILENE, Texas - Hardin-Simmons' baseball team split a non-conference doubleheader with
Texas-Dallas on Tuesday afternoon at Hunter Field, winning 2-0 in the first game
and falling 3-2 in the nightcap.
In the first game, the
Cowboys received a great start from Stewart Person. The senior lefthander moved
to 1-0 on the year as he worked six shutout innings. He scattered four hits and
struck out five. Tyler Brunnemann worked a scoreless seventh inning for his
sixth save.
The only scoring came
in the fifth inning when Jon Finney walked and Marcus Uechi followed with a
two-run home run over the left field wall.
Andrew Bell led the
Cowboys' seven-hit attack with two hits. Four different Comets had one hit each.
Brandon Clounch went
four shutout innings for UTD and Micah Easterling took the loss, allowing two
runs on three hits to fall to 1-1.
In the nightcap,
pitching was again the name of the game as freshman Brandon Bollinger went five
and one-third innings in his first career start and allowed two runs on two
hits. Eric Zamora allowed a run on three hits in two-thirds of an innings.
Parker Robinson worked two scoreless innings and Ryan Reagor worked a scoreless
ninth.
UTD received four
shutout innings from starter Calvin Campbell. Alex Kuhn (1-1) earned the win
with two innings of scoreless relief. Corey allowed one run in one inning and
Ryan Lynch allowed an unearned run over two innings of work.
The Comets scored
first in the fourth innings when they loaded the bases with no outs. Bollinger
worked out of the jam with a double play and a fly out and the run scored on the
double play. UTD added a run in the sixth inning on an RBI singles by Trevor
Clifton and Easterling.
The Cowboys added a
run in the seventh inning when Jon Finney tripled home Jason Vause and another
in the eight on a pinch-hit RBI single by Zack Patino with two outs.
Finney led the Cowboys
with two hits in game two and Jacob Price had a pair of hits for UTD.
HSU is now 12-7 on the
year and UTD is 11-10. HSU will return to action Friday when it opens a
three-game American Southwest Conference series against two-time defending
champion Concordia at 7 p.m. at Hunter Field.
