Rhett Grosz
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5
Howard Payne HPU 5-5
11
Winner UMHB UMHBBSB 1-4
Howard Payne HPU
5-5
5
Final
11
UMHB UMHBBSB
1-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Howard Payne HPU 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 5 9 4
UMHB UMHBBSB 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 8 X 11 13 2

W: Fenner, Nicklas (1-1) L: Bryant Chamb (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Eighth-inning rally propels Cru over Howard Payne

BELTON, Texas – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor baseball team used an eighth inning rally to earn an 11-5 win over Howard Payne University Friday evening in Belton.  
 
Andrew Acierni started the game on the mound for the Cru, throwing three scoreless innings. Acierni allowed just two base runners in the first three innings of action with three strikeouts. The Yellow Jackets took their first lead of the game in the top of the fourth inning, scoring a pair of runs off a triple from Luke Brock. UMHB responded in the bottom of the fifth inning, taking a 3-2 lead. Drake Herrera scored on an error before Rhett Grosz slammed a two-RBI home run for the lead. That score held until the seventh inning when the Yellow Jackets constructed a pair of single-run frames to go up 4-3.  
 
UMHB's offense exploded in the eighth inning, scoring eight runs. Warren Sammons opened the inning with a double to right field before Carson Hagan and Tyler Betts both reached on back-to-back hit by pitches. Sam Muniga followed that with a single to left field, scoring Kaden deBerardinis and Hagan. Muniga and Betts scored next, both reaching home on errors. Hayden Guerin was the next Crusader to drive in runs, hitting in Grosz and Herrera on a two-RBI single up the middle. Betts followed with an RBI single to score Ryan Farmer before Guerin scored the final run of the inning, giving UMHB an 11-4 lead. Howard Payne added one more run in the top of the ninth but fell 11-5 to the Cru.
 
Acierni threw seven innings, allowing three runs with seven strikeouts. Nicklas Fenner and Isaac Brann both pitched in relief, throwing one inning each with one run allowed. Five Crusaders recorded multiple hits in the game as UMHB totaled 13 total slams. Grosz, Muniga and Guerin each scored two runs while Herrera and Grosz both drove in multiple runs. UMHB totaled 11 runs on 13 hits with two errors while the Yellow Jackets had five runs on nine hits with four errors.
 
UMHB returns to action tomorrow in a 12 p.m. doubleheader against the Yellow Jackets at Red Murff Field in Belton.
 
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