University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
Le Moyne College
Win Streak Ends as Le Moyne Pulls Even
4/25/2010 2:30:00 AM | Baseball
Louisiana dropped a 6-5 decision to Le Moyne College on Saturday at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field when Chris Edmondson's sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning plated the go-ahead.
The loss ended the Ragin' Cajuns' season-best, 10-game winning streak and evened up the weekend series.
The rubber match is scheduled for 11 a.m., on Sunday. UL will attempt to win its third consecutive series.
Louisiana (24-15) rallied from a 5-3 deficit getting a two-out RBI double from Jordan Poirrier in the seventh and two-out RBI single from Greg Fontenot in the eighth to pull into a 5-all tie.
Brett Botsford led off the Dolphins' half of the ninth with a single though the left side and moved into scoring position on a one-out single by Matt Marra.
Erik Lambe, who entered in relief in the eight and surrendered the hit to Fontenot which tied the game, retired the Cajuns 2-3-4 hitters in order in the ninth to seal the victory for Le Moyne (22-22).
Poirrier led UL with a game-high three RBI increasing his team-leading season total to 42. Fontenot scored a game-high three runs.
The Dolphins received two hits apiece from Botsford, Marra, Edmondson, Zach Wiley and Kyle Kalaka.
Jeff Tardiff pitched 7 2/3 innings for Le Moyne and held the Cajuns in check. He limited UL to just four hits over the first six innings.
The Dolphins collected two runs on six hits over the first three innings. Louisiana drew even in their half of the third inning when Poirrier roped a bases loaded, ground-rule double to left center.
The teams traded sacrifice flies in the fifth inning - Le Moyne's came from Marra and Louisiana's came from Chad Keefer.
A throwing error by Ryland Parker on a sacrifice bunt - that would have resulted in a force out - aided Le Moyne in scoring a pair of unearned runs in the sixth inning.
The error kept the inning alive long enough for Kalaka to single to left field and score Wiley and Sean Paino for a 5-3 lead.
BASES NOTED: Coming into the game Justin Robichaux's pitch count was going to be limited. He pitched three innings and threw 48 pitches.
Similar to the series held in March 2005, Le Moyne captured the middle game. UL went on to claim the finale and win the series that year 2-1.
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