University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Morgan Continues Offensive Success to Lead Cajuns to 12-3 Win
4/8/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Morgan Continues Offensive Success to Lead Cajuns to 12-3
Win
Louisiana-Lafayette has now hit safely in 17 consecutive
innings
LAFAYETTE – Josh Landry and Justin Morgan combined for six hits and seven RBI, helping lead the 20th-ranked Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns baseball team to a 12-3 victory over Texas-Pan American here Friday night at M.L. “Tigue” Moore Field.
Louisiana-Lafayette (27-6) has now won four straight games and seven of its last nine home games. Louisiana-Lafayette pounded out 19 hits, which is tied for third-most this season. Dating back to Wednesday night's 11-4 victory at Louisiana-Monroe, the Cajuns have now hit safely in 17 consecutive innings.
Louisiana-Lafayette starting pitcher Kevin Ardoin (7-1) struck out seven batters in five shutout innings, while scattering five hits with one walk. Ardoin now has 282 career strikeouts, moving him to within eight strikeouts of tying Eric Templet for third on the school's all-time list.
Thad Montgomery pitched three innings of relief for the Cajuns. Montgomery allowed three runs – all unearned – on three hits with three strikeouts. Ian Pecoraro shut the Broncs down in the ninth, striking out two of the three batters he faced.
Texas-Pan American (10-25) starter Aaron Guerra (4-2) received the loss, allowing eight runs on 13 hits in five innings. Guerra struck out six Cajuns batters with four walks.
Louisiana-Lafayette scored its first run in the second inning to take an early 1-0 lead. After a Jonathan Lucroy strikeout, Dallas Morris singled up the middle, followed by Phillip Hawke who singled to right field. Justin Morgan's RBI single to center field plated Morris, giving the Cajuns a one-run advantage.
The Cajuns' one-run lead soon became a seven-run advantage, as the Cajuns scored six runs in the third inning to take a 7-0 lead. John Coker led off with a single up the middle. Josh Landry then doubled down the left field line, scoring Coker to give the Cajuns a 2-0 lead.
John McCarthy advanced Landry to third with a double to center field. Lucroy's walk loaded the bases. Morris and Hawke both struck out swinging. Morgan's two-out, bases-loaded single to center field scored McCarthy and Landry to increase the Cajuns lead to 4-0.
Parker then singled up the middle, plating Lucroy for a 5-0 advantage. Justin Merendino continued the Cajuns' big inning with a two-RBI triple to right-center field to give the Cajuns a 7-0 lead.
Louisiana-Lafayette's offensive display continued in the fifth and sixth innings. The Cajuns added one run in the fifth on Landry's RBI-single to center field, scoring Parker to take an 8-0 advantage.
The Cajuns scored three more runs in the sixth to take an 11-run lead. After a Broncs pitching change, Morris led off with a double to left-center field and advanced to third on a fielding error by UTPA centerfielder Louie Alamia. Hawke was then hit by a pitch and Morgan followed with a sacrifice fly which plated Morris to give the Cajuns a 9-0 lead.
After Parker flied out to center field, Merendino doubled down the left field line, advancing Hawke to third. Hawke later scored on fielding error by UTPA shortstop Aaron Flowers. Merendino later scored on a Landry RBI double down the right field line, giving the Cajuns an 11-0 advantage.
Texas-Pan American finally broke its scoreless draught with a three-run seventh inning. Otis Powers reached on a Morris throwing error. Matt Eichel then singled to left field, advancing Powers to second. J.P. Mackie reached on a fielder's choice, advancing the runners to second and third. Powers then scored on the play on an errant throw to second by Parker.
Eichel later scored on Ricky Broyles' ground out to shortstop and Mackie later scored on Alamia's RBI double to right-center field.
The Cajuns added another run in the eighth inning to increase their lead to nine runs, 12-3.
Landry went 4-for-6 with three RBI, while Morgan went 2-for-4 with four RBI. Parker enjoyed his second straight three-hit game, going 3-for-5 with an RBI. McCarthy added three hits, while Merendino, Hawke and Morris each tallied two hits.
Alamia led the Broncs offensively, going 3-for-5 with an RBI.
Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns will continue their three-game series Texas-Pan American on Saturday with a 2:05 p.m. scheduled first pitch. Saturday's game will be televised on KLAF-TV Channel 17 in the Lafayette area.
Louisiana-Lafayette 12, UTPA 3 (Apr 08, 2005
at Lafayette, La.)
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Texas-Pan American.. 000 000 300 - 3 8 2 (10-25)
Louisiana-Lafayette. 016 013 01X - 12 19 3 (27-6)
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Pitchers: Texas-Pan American - Guerra; Frisby(6).
Louisiana-Lafayette - Ardoin, K; Montgomery(6); Pecoraro,
I(9).
Win-Ardoin, K(7-1) Loss-Guerra(4-2) T-2:56 A-1930
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