WACO, Texas – The HCU baseball team fell in a midweek matchup against the Baylor Bears, 9-1, on Tuesday night at Baylor Ballpark.
Baylor (26-14) got on the board first in the second inning. The Bears got a leadoff single and then took advantage of a throwing error on a single to put runners on second and third with one out. A squeeze bunt plated a run and made it a 1-0 game. The Huskies (22-17) got the run back in the top of the fourth when Luke Bard drove one over the center field wall with two outs, evening the score at 1-1.
The Bears regained the lead in the bottom half of the fourth with a solo home run of their own off the bat of Travis Sanders. Baylor then added another run in the sixth, pushing its lead to 3-1, before a six-run seventh inning put the game out of reach.
The Huskies managed just five hits against the Bears with Bard's home run and a double off the bat of
Jack Walker accounting for the team's two extra-base hits.
Jacob Cyr started on the mound for HCU, suffering the loss to fall to 1-1 on the season. The HCU lefty threw five innings with two runs allowed, though just one was earned, while striking out three and walking one.
The Huskies now return home and shift their focus to a weekend Southland Conference series against Southeastern. The three-game set begins Friday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m. at Husky Field, followed by games on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
