KENNING'S HOMER COMPLETES AGGIES RALLY TO STUN CAJUNS...May 13, 2001

KENNING'S HOMER COMPLETES AGGIES RALLY TO STUN CAJUNS...May 13, 2001 LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Ryan Kenning's second two-run home run in the final three innings snapped an 11-all tie as New Mexico State spoiled Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun baseball team's bid to reach the Sun Belt Conference Tournament with a 13-11 season-ending victory Sunday afternoon at Presley Askew Field. With the loss, Louisiana-Lafayette (28-28, 12-15 Sun Belt Conference) lost its chance to reach the tournament it will host at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field May 16-19. "We set ourselves up for this on Friday," Cajun head coach Tony Robichaux said. "You can't dig yourself out of every hole. It just happened that today we ran out of pitching." Early in the game, Louisiana-Lafayette, who needed to win two of three games entering the weekend to secure a spot in the tournament, looked like they would grab their first Sunday victory since March 25 against Florida International. Trailing 2-1 after three, the Cajuns grabbed a 4-2 lead on a two-run home run by Robert Shelton and an RBI double by Bret Bailey. After the Aggies (32-23, 9-17 SBC) evened the game with a pair of fourth-inning runs, the Cajuns' big bats made their biggest statement of the weekend. Rick Haydel and Tyler Tiesing gave Louisiana-Lafayette an 8-4 lead as each launched a two-run home run. The Aggies, though, scratched out single runs in the fifth and sixth before Neil Simoneaux delivered a two-out RBI single to extend the Cajun lead to 9-6. However, Kenning hammered his first two-run blast of the game off Andy Gros to give NMSU a short-lived 10-9 lead. Bryan Sneed, who finished the series 8-for-14 with eight RBI, made sure the Aggies would not be the only team fashioning a comeback, as he slammed his third two-run home run of the series over the left-field wall to reestablish a one-run Cajun lead. Brandt Ray (2-7) escaped a two-on, two-out jam in the eighth before Jay Moya took Ray's first ninth-inning offering over the left-field wall to tie the game. Ray hit Kurt Wilkinson with a pitch before being lifted for Lance Stutes. Stutes entered and, after two pickoff throws, surrendered Kenning's 13th home run of the season.

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2001 Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun Baseball Louisiana-Lafayette at New Mexico State May 13, 2001 at Las Cruces, N.M. (Presley Askew Field) Louisiana-Lafayette 11 (28-28,12-15 SBC) Name (Pos) AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB Avg SALOOM, Brad 3b........... 4 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 HAYDEL, Rick ss........... 3 1 1 2 2 0 0 4 0 SNEED, Bryan lf........... 4 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 ATWOOD, Scott 1b.......... 4 0 0 1 0 2 12 1 0 SHELTON, Robert dh........ 4 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 PREAU, Kevin pr........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TIESING, Tyler c.......... 4 2 2 2 0 0 5 0 0 SIMONEAUX, Neil 2b........ 5 0 1 1 0 1 3 3 0 BAILEY, Bret cf........... 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 PAVLICH, Matt ph/cf....... 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 VERRET, Chad ph/cf........ 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 BUNDY, Chase rf/cf........ 4 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 COLES, Corey p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RAMON, Tim p.............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 GROS, Andy p.............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RAY, Brandt p............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 STUTES, Lance p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals.................... 37 11 13 11 3 7 24 12 6 New Mexico State 13 (32-23,9-17 SBC) Name (Pos) AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB Avg Wilkinson cf.............. 4 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 Harrington rf............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kenning rf................ 5 3 5 5 0 0 1 1 0 Purkiss 2b................ 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 5 0 Dias 1b................... 5 0 2 2 0 0 8 0 1 Larsen ss................. 5 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 3 Perry dh.................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Pierce ph/dh.............. 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Veloz ph/dh............... 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Licini ph................. 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Herrera 3b................ 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 Gmetro c.................. 3 1 3 1 0 0 5 1 0 Hammer ph................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Winegarden c.............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 Mostek lf................. 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 Moya ph/lf................ 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 Bivian p.................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Clements p................ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Buchanan p................ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hale p.................... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals.................... 38 13 17 12 3 4 27 14 10 Score by innings: R H E ---------------------------------------------- Louisiana-Lafayette 100 340 120 - 11 13 2 New Mexico State 002 211 403 - 13 17 2 ---------------------------------------------- Note: None out, 0 runner(s) LOB when the game ended. E - SALOOM(9); BUNDY(2); Mostek(1); Bivian(1). DP - Cajuns 2; NMSU 2. LOB - Cajuns 6; NMSU 10. 2B - SHELTON 2(10); TIESING(4); BAILEY(4); BUNDY 2(6); Wilkinson(19); Kenning 2(18); Veloz(9); Gmetro(2); Moya(8). HR - HAYDEL(4); SNEED(6); SHELTON(4); TIESING(3); Kenning 2(13); Moya(7). SB - HAYDEL(12); BAILEY(5); Harrington(22); Larsen(2). SH - Herrera(2). SF - ATWOOD(2). Louisiana-Lafayette IP H R ER BB SO AB BF ERA NP COLES, Corey........ 2.1 3 2 2 2 2 10 14 60 RAMON, Tim.......... 2.2 5 3 2 1 1 11 13 40 GROS, Andy.......... 1.2 6 5 5 0 1 10 11 37 RAY, Brandt......... 1.1 2 2 2 0 0 6 8 23 STUTES, Lance....... 0.0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 New Mexico State IP H R ER BB SO AB BF ERA NP Bivian.............. 5.0 8 8 6 2 1 21 25 90 Clements............ 3.0 5 3 3 1 5 14 17 61 Buchanan............ 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 Hale................ 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 Win - Hale 7-4. Loss - RAY 2-7. Save - None. WP - COLES(5); Clements(5). PB - TIESING(1). HBP - by Bivian (SALOOM); by COLES (Harrington); by COLES (Herrera); by GROS (Wilkinson); by RAY (Herrera); by Clements (SHELTON); by Clements (TIESING); by RAY (Wilkinson). Umpires - Home:Greg Oros 1st:John Carraro 3rd:Brad Davidson Start: 1:04 pm Time: 3:25 Attendance: 110 Clements faced 2 batters in the 9th. RAY faced 2 batters in the 9th. STUTES faced 1 batter in the 9th.

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KENNING'S HOMER COMPLETES AGGIES RALLY TO STUN CAJUNS...May 13, 2001

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