Box Score

FORT WORTH, Texas – Seventh-ranked TCU took advantage of four Houston Baptist errors to score five unearned runs and claim a 6-1 victory in the series finale Sunday afternoon at Lupton Stadium.

Junior shortstop Collin Hetzler went 3-for-4 for the Huskies (1-15), while freshman second baseman Garrett Tully drove in HBU's lone run.

Zac Jordan went 2-for-4 and scored a run for the Horned Frogs (10-5), while Jerome Pena doubled and drove in two runs, and Josh Elander also doubled and drove in a run.

Steven Maxwell earned the win for TCU, allowing one run on five hits, while striking out seven in seven innings. He did not allow a hit after the third inning, retiring 15 of the last 16 batters he faced, including the last nine in a row. Senior lefthander Jamie Storey took the loss for HBU, allowing five runs, only one earned, on five hits in six innings of work.

TCU took the early lead with an unearned run in the first as Rivera led off the bottom of the inning with a walk, stole second and scored when Witte reached on an error. HBU answered back in the top of the second when junior rightfielder Kolby Arnst led off with a single and advanced all the way to third on a pair of wild pitches. Tully brought him home with a single to center to tie the game, 1-1.

The Horned Frogs reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the second, as Jordan singled up the middle, Joe Weik was hit by a pitch and both runners moved up on a balk. Davy Wright then lifted a sacrifice fly to right to give TCU a 2-1 lead. TCU broke the game open with three unearned runs in the bottom of the fifth. Taylor Featherston hit a two-out single to left, but Jason Coats reached on an error which should have ended the inning. Pena followed with a two-run double to left, then came home on Elander's double to left to push the lead to 5-1. The Horned Frogs tacked on a run in the eighth as Wright singled with two outs, Kyle Von Tungeln pinch ran, and eventually scored on a wild pitch.

The Huskies loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth, but Hetzler was picked off third and Arnst grounded into a double play to end the game.