Baseball 3/11/2014 7:11:00 PM

Bulldogs End Road Trip With Split Against Southwest Baptist

Game 1: Truman 21, Southwest Baptist 9 || Box Score
Game 2: Southwest Baptist 17, Truman 7 || Box Score
2014 Schedule || 2014 Season Stats

BOLIVAR, Mo. – It was a hitters paradise and a pitchers nightmare on Tuesday as the Truman Bulldogs and Southwest Baptist (Mo.) Bearcats split a non-conference twinbill. The Bulldogs won game one 21-9 while SBU turned the tables in the nightcap with a 17-7 win. Truman is scheduled to open up conference play on Saturday at home against Wisconsin-Parkside.

The doubleheader featured 56 runs, 53 hits and 83 total bases. Jarod Hahn had five hits in seven at bats for the Bulldogs with six RBIs with a 1.429 slugging percentage. As a team, Truman hit .352 with five doubles and two home runs.

Game 1 Recap: After a scoreless two innings, the Bulldogs exploded for 21 runs, second most in a single-game in school history to throttle the Bearcats 21-9. It was only the third time Truman had scored over 20 runs in a contest with the previous coming in 1982 against Culver-Stockton (25) and 2009 at Pittsburg State (20).

Mike Monfre and Will Nader each drove in four runs with Nader and Jarod Hahn each hitting home runs. Monfre scored four times on three base hits. Paul Trenhaile and Zak Larkin each went 3-for-6 at the plate and Truman belted out 20 hits for only the fourth time in school history.

Truman scored four times in the third with Trenhaile doubling in Corban Williams and Hahn blasting a home run to left. The Bearcats responded with two of their own in the bottom of the inning and Truman added an unearned run in the fourth.

The floodgates opened in the fifth with a two-run single by Monfre followed by a three-run blast off the bat of Nader. SBU answered with a five-spot in the bottom of the inning as Landon Young delivered his own three-run homer.

The Bulldogs sent 12 hitters to the plate in the sixth, scoring seven times. Monfre had his second two-run single with Larkin adding two more with a hit.

Alex Hoffmann picked up his first Truman win going five innings and striking out four with Chris Allard pitching two innings in relief.

Game 2 Recap: The Bulldogs got things rolling again in the top of the first with Zak Larkin opened by reaching on one of five Bearcat errors in the game. Jarod Hahn hit a ground-rule double with two outs to score Larkin for the 1-0 lead.

Unfortunately, the Bearcats scored two in the bottom of the inning and proceeded to score two in the second, four each in the third and fourth innings, three in the fifth and two in the sixth.

Meanwhile, Tim Collins silenced the Bulldog bats as he kept the 'Dogs hitless in four straight innings. Truman got to Collins in the sixth when Corban Williams singled to start the frame. Hahn doubled in a pair but Blake Deaton hit into a double play and Wyatt Fones fouled out to end the inning.

Truman was held to five hits in game two with Paul Trenhaile going 0-for-3 to snap his career-best 17-game hitting streak dating back to last season. Trenhaile did walk and score to extend his reached base string to 18 straight.

Tyler McCreary took the loss after an inning and a third of work.

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