SHERMAN, Texas - The Austin College baseball team dropped both halves of its Saturday doubleheader against Texas Lutheran, falling 12-1 in game one before the Bulldogs used a late offensive surge to pull away for an 11-3 game two win. The 'Roos are now 7-20 overall on the year and 2-10 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play.

TLU jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the first inning in game one on a two-run homer from Joe Jimenez, and added another run in the second. The Bulldogs would push four runs across in the third to make it a 7-0 game, and after another run came home in the fourth, and the lead grew to 12-0 when the Bulldogs tacked on four more runs in the top of the sixth. Austin College got on the board in the bottom of the seventh, with Sergio De Paoli knocking in a run to make it 12-1 and that's how things would finish.

Garrett Gray took the loss for Austin College, surrendering eight runs - five earned - on six hits in 3.0 innings of work. The 'Roos were held to four hits, with Ryan Padfield, Mason Woodhouse, Jake Trapani, and Gage Lynn-Hart each getting aboard once in the loss. 

In game two, it was scoreless through two innings before TLU pushed three runs across in the third to go on top 3-0, and runs in the fourth and fifth pushed it to a 5-0 game. Austin College responded with three runs in the bottom of the sixth to cut it to a 5-3 game, with Branson Vrazel doubling home two runs and later scoring on an RBI single from Brant Stuber.

However, the Bulldogs responded in a big way in the top of the seventh, taking advantage of an error with the bases loaded as part of a six run inning to go on top 11-3. Four of TLU's six runs in the frame came were unearned and came following a defensive miscue kept the inning alive. 

Ryan Culp absorbed the loss for the 'Roos, giving up five runs on seven hits with six strikeouts in 5.1 innings of work, and Scott Hosmer went 2-for-3 to pace the 'Roos at the dish.