Tech Takes Game 1 Over Corpus
By: Rhett Kleinschmidt
Updated: April 1, 2008
The win marks the third in a row for
the Red Raiders as they improve to 15-12 on the season. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi falls to
8-19. The series finale between the two
teams has been moved to 2 p.m. due to the Islanders’ evening travel
plans.
The Red Raiders snapped a string of
three straight games of allowing a run in the top of the first as Tech starter
Russ Fornea put up the initial zero to get Tech off to a solid start. In fact, Fornea put up five straight zeros to
start the game before finally giving up a run in the top of the
sixth.
Doug Thennis gave Tech the early lead
in the bottom of the first with an RBI groundout and then put the Red Raiders up
2-0 with another RBI groundout in third.
He finished with a game-high three RBIs and has now contributed nine in
the last two games for the Red Raiders.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi finally
chased away Fornea in the top of the sixth and plated its only run of the game
when Tech reliever Owen Brolsma hit Jacob Perales with the bases loaded and that
allowed Bryan Gerondale to walk in from third.
The Tech offense came to life in the
bottom half of the seventh as the Red Raiders tacked on four runs to grab a 6-1
lead. Monk Kreder, Chris Hall and
Thennis all delivered RBI singles in the inning.
Russ Fornea improved to 3-2 on the
season as he earned the win. He logged a
season-high 5 2/3 innings and held the Islanders to just one run on four hits
and struckout three. Trey Hernandez
(0-5) suffered the loss for TAMU-CC as he surrendered five runs on six hits and
walked four over 6 1/3.
R H E
WP = Russ Fornea
(3-2)
LP = Trey Hernandez
(0-5)
SV = None
(courtesy: texas tech)
