Junior pitcher Jaxson Jelkin is photographed here at a home game 0-0 after seven appearances despite leading the Cougars in strikeouts with 46. | Oscar Herrera/The Cougar
The Houston Cougars baseball team dropped its second straight three-game series at Lupton Stadium over the weekend in a match-up against the TCU Horned Frogs.
Game One
Houston suffered a devastating 14-1 loss on Thursday.
The Horned Frogs heated up in the fourth frame to take a 4-0 lead and never let up offensively putting an additional six on the board in the seventh inning.
Houston allowed a season-high 21 hits and couldn’t find an answer for the high-powered offense.
A solo shot off the bat of redshirt senior Jonathan French gave the Coogs their only run in the game.
Game Two
The Cougars couldn’t find a rhythm until its fate for the night was all but sealed in Friday’s 6-2 loss to the Frogs.
TCU scored two runs in the third inning to take the 2-0 lead and never let up.
Senior infielder Jake Rainess and catcher Anthony Tulimero put together some runs for the Cougars in the ninth with a solo homer and an RBI single, but it was too little, too late.
Game Three
The series finale seemed like a turning point for the Cougars. However, TCU swept the Coogs after their 6-4 Saturday loss.
UH drummed up some offense. French doubled and just two batters later senior infielder Jacob Schoenvogel singled to claim the 3-2 lead in the fifth inning, the Cougar’s first of the series.
Junior pitcher Jaxon Jelkin added seven strikeouts in his career-best 6.1-inning appearance.
All was well until late-game errors gave away four runs to TCU allowing them to reclaim the lead 6-4 to end the night.
Houston drops to 15-12 on the season and 4-8 in conference play.
Next up the Cougars head home to take on Rice for the final game of the Silver Gloves Series on April 2.
