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[Baseball] Bees score season-high 17 runs in rout of Trinity Christian

The Fighting Bees' bats are red hot right now.St. Ambrose put up a season-high 17 runs, scoring three runs in five seperate innings en route to a 17-10 victory over conference foe Trinity Chrstian.Some familiar faces were raking at the plate. Cole Aughenbaugh had four hits, a pair of doubles, a pair of home runs and six total RBI's. Cooper Huckabone had four hits as well, two doubles, a home run and three RBI's. Brenden Butler added two more doubles and Max Rumpf had a deep ball of his own.After pouncing to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first, the Bees quickly found themselves in a 7-3 deficit entering the bottom of the fourth inning. Mike Coughlin drew a walk and Shawn Rigsby singled through the right side to push his teammate over to third. Liam Dennehy got the job done with a sacrifice fly to right field punching in Coughlin and getting the Bees back on the board. Huckabone then launched a two-run blast over the wall in left to get the Bees right back in the game.Trinity Christian responded with two more runs in the top of the fifth. But in the bottom frame with Butler on base, Rumpf connected with a pitch and sent it flying over the left field wall to get those runs back in an instant.In the bottom of the sixth, Aughenbaugh tied the game up with an RBI single through the right side, then Butler grabbed the lead for the Bees with an RBI single to center. Aughenbaugh put the game away with his second home run of the day with a two-run shot in the bottom of the seventh.St. Ambrose played some extremely tight defense on the field to close out the game, only allowing one run over the final four innings to secure the comeback win.Colton Carr was the starting pitcher for the Bees, pitching four complete innings and striking out three. Mitch Thompson pitched the final five frames to close the game out. Thompson pitched a gem in relief, allowing only one earned run on two hits.The dominant win over Trinity Christian moves St. Ambrose to 10-13 overall and 6-1 in CCAC play. The Bees will hit the road March 31 to take on Lincoln College in another CCAC matchup.