University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
Southeastern Louisiana
Cajuns Turn Back the Clock and Beat SLU
4/17/2007 5:00:00 AM | Baseball
LAFAYETTE-Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns baseball team improved to 29-9 on the season as they downed
The Cajuns jumped out to a 5-0 lead after one inning of play and never looked back. The Cajuns added three insurance runs and came away with an 8-2 win.
Offensively, Matt Hicks led the Cajuns with three hits in four plate appearances. He had a homerun, a double and a single as he fell just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. Hicks also led the team with four RBI on the night. His three-run homer in the bottom of the first broke the game open.
Jonathan Lucroy and Scott Hawkins both had a pair of hits in the contest. Lucroy scored three runs while driving in another. Hawkins drove in a pair of runners and added a run of his own.
The offense helped out a stellar pitching performance by the Cajuns pitching staff.
Starter Brent Solich worked 6.1 innings, scattering nine hits. He allowed just two runs, but just one earned run. Solich fanned six batters while issuing just one walk.
Matt Pilgreen worked the final 2.2 innings in relief. The right hander surrendered just one hit, while striking out a pair and not issuing a free pass.
The Ragin' Cajuns were the first team to scratch the scoreboard. With one out, Jefferies Tatford drew a base on balls for the first Cajuns base runner of the night. Lucroy followed Tatford with a walk on his own. A Hawkins single up the middle to plate the first run of the night. Nolan Gisclair singled to centerfield to score the run of the inning. Hicks hit his second homerun in as many games to clear the bases. The three-run homer was Hicks' second of his career. The Cajuns five-spot to start the game gave starting pitcher a nice cushion to work with.
The Cajuns added a run in the bottom of the third inning. Lucroy led off the inning with a single through the left side of the infield. A sacrifice bunt moved Lucroy to second base and an RBI single from Hicks scored the run and allowed the Cajuns to pad their lead.
The Cajuns answered in the bottom of the inning with a pair of runs. Josh Logan drew a one-out walk to get things going for UL. He stole second base and was able to move to third on a fielding error by the Lions. Back-to-back doubles by Lucroy and Hawkins plated two runs and upped the UL advantage to 8-1.
A leadoff homerun by SLU in the top of the sixth inning cut the Cajuns lead to 8-2.
The Lions would get no closer as Pilgreen shut the door on any chances SLU had of generating any runs.
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