HOUSTON – Prairie View A&M scored six runs in the first inning and turned back HBU, 11-9, in non-conference baseball Tuesday afternoon at Husky Field.
Junior designated hitter
Brennen Bales went 2-for-5 with a double, four RBIs and scored, while junior centerfielder
Austin Roccaforte went 2-for-3 with an RBI and scored three times for the Huskies (11-22). Sophomore third baseman
Sebastian Trinidad, junior rightfielder
Logan Letney and senior second baseman
Braden Sanford each had two hits.
Junior righthander
Thomas King (0-3) took the loss. Junior
Chad Ricker threw 5.2 innings of relief, allowing one earned run on four hits.
Tre Turner was 2-for-4 and drove in three runs, while Dominic Cox went 2-for-4 with an RBI and scored twice for the Panthers (18-17). Zachary Trevino went 2-for-4 with an RBI and also scored twice.
Matthew Krall (3-4) picked up the win for PVAMU and Justin Maxcey earned his second save with a 1-2-3 ninth.
The Panthers took advantage of four walks and a hit by pitch in the first. Cox delivered an RBI single and Trevino added a two-out triple.
The Huskies answered back with three in the bottom half, getting a two-run double by Bales and an RBI single from Edwards.
PVAMU received help from an HBU error in the fourth, when Turner came through with a two-run single to extend the lead to 8-3.
HBU once again came back in the bottom half with a three-spot on Roccaforte's RBI infield single and Bales' two-run single to cut the deficit to 8-6.
The Panthers scored another unearned run in the fifth, but Sanford's RBI triple kept the Huskies within two at 9-7.
After a 45-minute weather delay to begin the seventh, HBU added a run on an RBI single by senior first baseman
Daniel Budke to close within one at 9-8, but PVAMU came back with two in the top of the eighth to restore the three-run advantage.
Trinidad had an RBI groundout in the eighth as the final tally for the Huskies.
HBU will play its next eight on the road, beginning with a three-game Southland Conference series at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Thursday through Saturday in Corpus Christi.
