Box Score

FORT WORTH, Texas – After allowing a first-inning run, TCU's Kyle Winkler shut Houston Baptist down over the next five innings to propel the seventh-ranked Horned Frogs to a 7-1 win over the Huskies in the opener of a three-game series Friday night at Lupton Stadium.

Sophomore centerfielder Jake Gonzalez went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI, while junior catcher Corey Hail also doubled and senior first baseman Beau Warren provided the only other hits for HBU (0-14).

Brance Rivera, Jantzen Witte, Jason Coats and Josh Elander each collected a pair of hits for TCU (9-4). Witte drove in four runs, while Rivera doubled twice and scored a pair of runs. Kyle Von Tungeln also scored two runs.

Winkler allowed one unearned run on three hits while striking out seven in six innings, and Andrew Mitchell picked up the save, allowing just one it and striking out six over the final three innings. Junior righthander Dalton Schafer (0-4) took the loss for the Huskies, allowing six runs, five earned, on eight hits in five innings, while junior J.P. Seipel allowed an unearned run on three hits over the final three innings.

Junior third baseman Robbie Buller reached on a two-out error in the first inning and scored on Gonzalez's double to leftcenter. TCU answered back with three in the bottom of the frame as Rivera led off with a double and scored on Witte's groundout. Coats smacked a two-out single to left, went to second on a balk and scored on Jerome Pena's single to rightcenter. Pena then came home on Elander's triple.

The Horned Frogs added three more in the fifth as Joe Weik singled to lead off the inning, followed by a Rivera double down the leftfield line. Witte plated both runners with a single up the middle and later scored on an HBU error. Von Tungeln reached on an error to lead off the eighth and scored on an RBI single by Witte for the game's final tally.