BLINN COLLEGE USES STRONG PITCHING PERFORMANCES TO SWEEP DOUBLEHEADER AT GALVESTON TOURNAMENT
Bucs beat Galveston College, Western Texas to remain unbeaten on the season
GALVESTON, Texas – The Blinn College Buccaneers baseball team stayed unbeaten with two wins Friday in the Galveston Tournament.
The Bucs held on to beat host Galveston College 7-5 in the nightcap, a game that didn’t finish until after midnight. Blinn downed Western Texas 7-3 in the earlier game.
Head coach Harvey McIntyre praised starting pitchers Colton Geisler and Dylan Theut.
“They were phenomenal,” McIntyre said. “I think between them they pitched 10 innings combined and gave up one hit. They also had 20 strikeouts between them. That kind of set the tone for the day.”
The Bucs also played flawlessly in the field for the doubleheader with no errors.
McIntyre said his team was able to get two more wins by staying strong mentally.
“I told them on Thursday that it’s going to be a challenge mentally on Friday because you’re going to have to leave Brenham at 6:30 a.m. and play at 10, then sit around all day,” he said. “You just kind of hang in there and get through the day.”
McIntyre said the team didn’t get back to Brenham until 2:38 a.m. Saturday. They left at 10 a.m. for a 1 p.m. game against Temple College in the Galveston Tournament.
Blinn 7, Galveston 5
Blinn raced out to a 6-0 lead and held off the Whitecaps to move to 4-0 on the season.
The Bucs scored runs in the first and second, three more in the fourth and single runs in the fifth and sixth. The three-run outburst included a double by Caleb Schulz.
Geisler, a lefthander from Columbus, Texas, went 4 2/3 innings. He only gave up one hit and struck out 10.
Evan Aschenbeck and Blaine Romero finished the mound duty. Romero had two strikeouts in his one inning of work to earn a save.
Schulz went two for three with two RBIs. Kam Kelton and Nick Wolff were one for three. Caden Homniok also had a hit for Blinn, and Jeff Garcia had an RBI.
The Bucs had only five hits in the game but drew eight walks.
Blinn 7, Western Texas 3
Theut, a lefthander from Fulshear, picked up his second win of the season, shutting down Western Texas over five innings. He gave up no runs and only two hits, striking out 10 and walking three.
Theut has not given up a run so far this year, continuing a strong 2020 season in which he posted a 0.49 earned run average in 18 1/3 innings.
Blinn, 3-0 on the season, raced out to a 7-0 lead before Western Texas scored three runs in the top of the eighth.
Patrick Hall and Jake Olson nailed down the victory in relief of Theut. Hall had three strikeouts in his 2 1/3 innings on the mound. Olson pitched the last 1 2/3 innings and did not allow a run.
The Bucs scored single runs in the second, fourth and fifth before exploding for four more in the sixth inning. The outburst came from three walks and a double by catcher Preston Hoffart.
Hoffart and outfielder Cullen Sherrill each went 2-for-3, with Sherrill driving in two runs. Shelton, Wolff, and Westley Schields also had RBIs for Blinn.
The Bucs had six hits.
Story Courtesy:
Tara Dreyer
Blinn Sports Information Specialist