University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
New Orleans
Cajuns Complete Sweep of No. 22 UNO, 6-5
5/17/2008 5:00:00 AM | Baseball
Once the dust settled from the Cajuns' series sweep,
A seventh-inning rally by UNO marred senior Brent Solich's (
Despite blowing his third save of the season, Justin Robichaux (
UNO's Bryan Cryer was also the recipient of a no-decision as the Cajuns tapped him for five runs on six hits in six innings. Ryan O'Shea (2-2) suffered the loss in relief, allowing the winning run on three hits in two innings.
Tyler Benzel (
Aggressive base-running and a would-be inning-ending fly ball that was dropped in the outfield resulted in
Ryan Eden followed with the Privateers' second straight double and would later come around to score on a two-base error by Gisclair for a 2-0 UNO edge.
Tempers began to flare in the bottom of the first, but not before the Cajuns cut UNO's lead in half, 2-1. A passed ball courtesy of Josh Vander Hey scored Matt Goulas (
The Cajuns hung back-to-back two-spots in the third and fourth for a 5-2 lead. Guillory's RBI single knotted the game at 2-2 and a wild pitch later scored the go-ahead run in Goulas for a 3-2 lead in the third. A heated exchange between the two teams nearly escalated when Guillory was ejected after he steamrolled Vander Hey at the plate. Tempers eventually subsided as the Cajuns held on to a 3-2 after three innings.
In the fourth, Gisclair snapped a 3-for-28 slump as he slammed Cryer's initial offering to left field for a two-run blast and a 5-2 Cajuns lead.
After Solich and the Cajuns held the Privateers off the scoreboard for five straight innings, UNO scored three runs in the seventh to tie the game at 5-5. Solich left the game with a two-run lead, 5-3, when he was replaced by Robichaux. But, Robichaux would eventually allow the two inherited runners to score on Jeff Lanning's two-RBI single up the middle that tied the game.
Zorich faced his biggest challenge of the season, coming on in the ninth inning. The left-handed senior retired the side the clinch the series sweep for the Cajuns.
Louisiana-Lafayette 6,
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Louisiana-Lafayette. 102 200 01X - 6 9 3 (28-27, 16-14 SUN BELT)
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Pitchers:
Win-Robichaux, Justin(3-0) Save-Zorich, John(1) Loss-O'Shea, Ryan(2-2) T-2:50 A-1941
HR UL - Gisclair, Nolan (7).
Game notes:
UL catcher Dillon Guillory ejected in bottom of the third inning
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