Box Score SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Will Baker (Austin, Texas) and Evan Kuhl (Boerne, Texas) both finished with three hits and two RBI to help No. 1 D3baseball.com/No. 6 ABCA Trinity College defeat visiting Babson College, 9-4, in non-conference baseball action on Saturday afternoon at the Trinity Baseball Field. 

Babson is now 0-2 on the year while Trinity improves to 5-1 with its fifth consecutive victory. 

Sophomore Dylan Drazka (Rye Brook, N.Y.) went 2-for-3 with two RBI and first-year Robert Christensen (Scotch Plains, N.J.) singled twice and knocked in a run for the Beavers. Junior Ryan Liss (Hollywood, Fla.) contributed an RBI double and graduate student  Cooper Smith (Naples, Fla.) shouldered the loss in his Babson debut allowing three earned runs and six hits while striking out four in 5.0 innings.

Baker and John Ramsey (Austin, Texas), who went 2-for-5 with three RBI and runs scored both homered, Kuhl doubled twice and Thomas Moss (Sugar Land, Texas) and Pierce Matthews (Carrollton, Texas) both had two hits and scored a run to lead the Tigers' 13-hit attack. Jack Bussard (Reisterstown, Md.) tossed 3.1 scoreless innings in relief of Jake Beck (Austin, Texas) to earn his first win of the season. 

Senior Zander Teator (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) drew a nine-pitch walk to lead-off the game and scored on an opposite-field double by Liss one batter later to give the Green and White a 1-0 lead. Ramsey tied it with a solo blast in the bottom of the frame but the Beavers went back in front in the top of the second as Christensen led off with a single and came around to score on a one-out RBI knock by Drazka. 

Trinity went in front for good in the last of the second scoring three runs with two outs and taking advantage of an error to plate four runs for a 5-2 lead. Kuhl tied the game with a single to center, Ramsey followed with a two-out, two-run single to left and Kuhl scored when Ramsey got in a rundown. 

Drazka brought home senior Ryan Hvozdovic (Hillsborough, N.J.) with a two-out base hit in the top of the fourth to cut the deficit to 5-3, and Babson stranded a pair in scoring position in the top of the fifth before the hosts extended the bottom of the frame with an error, a wild pitch and a balk before Baker smacked a two-out, two-run homer to left to make it a four-run game. 
 
Babson stranded runners on the corners in the eighth down 9-3 and loaded the bases with one out in the ninth, getting one run back when Christensen brought home graduate student Ryan Grace (Concord, Mass.) with a sacrifice fly. 

Babson and Trinity will conclude their three-game series on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. EST. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 7-13 all-time against Trinity. 
•    Liss has now reached base in 32 consecutive games going back to last season. 
•    Drazka, who did not see any action last season, and Christensen both made their first career starts on Saturday. 
•    In addition to Stetson transfer Smith, graduate student Michael Camardi (Syosset, N.Y.), a transfer from Farmingdale State, also made his Babson debut on Saturday.