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Western Kentucky
Cajuns Drop to Seventh Place with 13-4 Loss
5/11/2008 5:00:00 AM | Baseball
BOWLING GREEN,
Ragin' Cajuns pitchers were responsible for Western's 18 hits. Brent Solich's (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.) return to the Sunday starting role was a frustrating one for the senior, allowing six runs on six hits with four strikeouts in 3 1/3 innings. Neither Solich (2-5) nor Buddy Glass (
WKU's Bart Carter (5-4) earned the victory, allowing four runs on four hits with five strikeouts in five innings.
All nine WKU hitters in the lineup recorded at least one hit, while three players finishing with three hits ? Terrence Dayleg, Wade Gaynor and Jeremy Coleman.
Carter fell behind all but one Cajun in the first inning as
Scott Hawkins (
WKU left the bases loaded at the end of the first inning but not before the Toppers did enough damage to take a 2-1 lead. Solich struck out the first batter he faced, but walked Matt Hightower and gave up a one-out double to Dayleg. Two batters later, a RBI bunt single by Gaynor scored the tying run. A wild pitch by Solich allowed the go-ahead run to score to give WKU a 2-1 lead.
Solich walked two more batters in the first inning, but were left stranded after Matt Payton grounded out to end the frame.
The Cajuns weren't down for long, responding with a two-run second inning to take a 3-2 lead. William Long's (
Not satisfied with two runs in the second inning, the double-steal was on as the Cajuns were looking to put a comfortable separation between them and WKU. However, the double-steal attempt was not successful when Long was tagged out at home to end the inning.
WKU evened the score in the second, 3-3. Dayleg drilled his second double in as many at bats ? this time a RBI double that fell in the right-center gap to plate the tying run.
A pair of acrobatic catches by Goulas in right field while fighting the swirling winds aided Solich in keeping
At the end of three innings, each team recorded four hits. WKU would then out-hit the Cajuns 14-2 in the final five-plus innings.
Four runs scored by
Coleman's RBI single to left field capped off the Toppers' four-run frame which gave WKU a 7-4 lead. After Glass loaded the bases without an out, Danny Farquhar (
WKU added insurance runs in both the sixth and eighth innings for the final 13-4 count.
Western Kentucky 13, Louisiana-Lafayette 4 (May 11, 2008 at
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Pitchers: Louisiana-Lafayette - Solich, Brent; Glass, Buddy(4); Farquhar, Danny(5).
Western Kentucky - Carter, Bart;
Win-Carter, Bart(5-4) Save-Davis,
Glass, B faced 3 batters in the 5th.
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