University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Friday, May 31
College Station, Texas
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'Horns Use Middle-Inning Surge To Get Past Cajuns, 12-5
5/31/2024 10:44:00 PM | Baseball
Louisiana will face Grambling in elimination game on Saturday at 2 p.m.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Solo home runs from Lee Amedee and Trey LaFleur gave No. 22 Louisiana an early lead against Texas, but a three-run, fourth inning allowed the Longhorns to take the lead before a seven-run fifth to pull away and claim a 12-5 win in the nightcap of the NCAA Bryan-College Station Regional on Friday at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
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Louisiana (40-19) will face Grambling (26-27) in an elimination game on Saturday at 2 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with fans able to listen to the game in the Lafayette area on KPEL-FM (96.5) and worldwide on the Varsity Network app.
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After stranding a pair of runners on base in the second, Louisiana broke a scoreless contest when Amedee smashed a solo homer to right off Texas starter Max Grubbs for an early 1-0 lead. An inning later, LaFleur hit his 12th of the season – a mammoth blast which cleared the right-field bleachers – for a 2-0 advantage.
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Louisiana starter Carson Fluno (4-1) allowed a pair of hits over the first 3.1 innings before Texas (36-22) reeled off five straight hits and sent nine men to the plate to take a 3-2 lead. A double by Kimble Schuessler and infield single by Porter Brown put runners on the corners before Rylan Galvin's RBI double cut the deficit to 2-1.
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Will Gasparino added an infield single to load the bases before Dee Kennedy's two-run single through the left side gave the Longhorns a 3-2 lead.
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Louisiana missed a chance to knot the contest in the bottom half of the fourth after Kyle DeBarge led off with a double to left, tying him with Jonathan Lucroy (2007) for the most total bases in a single season (174) in program history.
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John Taylor would follow with a walk to put runners on first and second before DeBarge was thrown out at third on Duncan Pastore's fielder's choice before Grubbs got an inning-ending, double play to halt the rally.
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The Longhorns sent 10 men to the plate in the fifth to put the game away after recording four hits and taking advantage of a pair of walks and an infield error. Texas escaped a potential double play when Kennedy's grounder was bobbled by DeBarge before an RBI single by Jared Thomas and grand slam by Jalin Flores built a 10-2 advantage.
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Louisiana got as close as 10-4 in the fifth as Conor Higgs was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded before DeBarge drove in Bryan Broussard, Jr., with a sacrifice fly to right.
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LaFleur, who went 2-for-4 to lead Louisiana's eight-hit attack, added an RBI single in the seventh. Jose Torres was 1-for-2 with a walk and two runs scored for Louisiana with Broussard reaching on fifth-inning single and Luke Yuhasz recording a pinch-hit single in the ninth.
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Grubbs (6-4) scattered five hits and struck out four in 5.0 innings for Texas with Cade O'Hara and Andre Duplantier II allowing three hits over the final 4.0 innings. Schuessler went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles for Texas, which will face arch-rival Texas A&M (45-13) in a winner's bracket game at 8 p.m.
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Fans are encouraged to stay engaged with the Ragin' Cajuns by downloading the #GeauxCajuns app. Click here for iOS/Apple platforms and here for Android platforms.
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For the latest updates on Ragin' Cajuns baseball, follow on Facebook (RaginCajunsBaseball), Twitter (@RaginCajunsBSB) and Instagram (@RaginCajunsBSB) or check RaginCajuns.com.
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Louisiana (40-19) will face Grambling (26-27) in an elimination game on Saturday at 2 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with fans able to listen to the game in the Lafayette area on KPEL-FM (96.5) and worldwide on the Varsity Network app.
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After stranding a pair of runners on base in the second, Louisiana broke a scoreless contest when Amedee smashed a solo homer to right off Texas starter Max Grubbs for an early 1-0 lead. An inning later, LaFleur hit his 12th of the season – a mammoth blast which cleared the right-field bleachers – for a 2-0 advantage.
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Louisiana starter Carson Fluno (4-1) allowed a pair of hits over the first 3.1 innings before Texas (36-22) reeled off five straight hits and sent nine men to the plate to take a 3-2 lead. A double by Kimble Schuessler and infield single by Porter Brown put runners on the corners before Rylan Galvin's RBI double cut the deficit to 2-1.
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Will Gasparino added an infield single to load the bases before Dee Kennedy's two-run single through the left side gave the Longhorns a 3-2 lead.
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Louisiana missed a chance to knot the contest in the bottom half of the fourth after Kyle DeBarge led off with a double to left, tying him with Jonathan Lucroy (2007) for the most total bases in a single season (174) in program history.
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John Taylor would follow with a walk to put runners on first and second before DeBarge was thrown out at third on Duncan Pastore's fielder's choice before Grubbs got an inning-ending, double play to halt the rally.
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The Longhorns sent 10 men to the plate in the fifth to put the game away after recording four hits and taking advantage of a pair of walks and an infield error. Texas escaped a potential double play when Kennedy's grounder was bobbled by DeBarge before an RBI single by Jared Thomas and grand slam by Jalin Flores built a 10-2 advantage.
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Louisiana got as close as 10-4 in the fifth as Conor Higgs was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded before DeBarge drove in Bryan Broussard, Jr., with a sacrifice fly to right.
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LaFleur, who went 2-for-4 to lead Louisiana's eight-hit attack, added an RBI single in the seventh. Jose Torres was 1-for-2 with a walk and two runs scored for Louisiana with Broussard reaching on fifth-inning single and Luke Yuhasz recording a pinch-hit single in the ninth.
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Grubbs (6-4) scattered five hits and struck out four in 5.0 innings for Texas with Cade O'Hara and Andre Duplantier II allowing three hits over the final 4.0 innings. Schuessler went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles for Texas, which will face arch-rival Texas A&M (45-13) in a winner's bracket game at 8 p.m.
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Fans are encouraged to stay engaged with the Ragin' Cajuns by downloading the #GeauxCajuns app. Click here for iOS/Apple platforms and here for Android platforms.
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For the latest updates on Ragin' Cajuns baseball, follow on Facebook (RaginCajunsBaseball), Twitter (@RaginCajunsBSB) and Instagram (@RaginCajunsBSB) or check RaginCajuns.com.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Grubbs, Max (6-4)
L: Fluno, Carson (4-1)
Batting:
2B: Schuessler, Kimble 2 ; Brown, Porter 1 ; Galvan, Rylan 1
HR: Flores, Jalin 1
RBI: Thomas, Jared 1 ; Flores, Jalin 4 ; Galvan, Rylan 2 ; Gasparino, Will 2 ; Kennedy, Dee 3
Base Running:
RUNS: Thomas, Jared 1 ; Flores, Jalin 1 ; Belyeu, Max 1 ; Schuessler, Kimble 3 ; Brown, Porter 3 ; Galvan, Rylan 2 ; Kennedy, Dee 1
SB: Thomas, Jared 2
Batting:
2B: DeBarge, Kyle 1
HR: LaFleur, Trey 1 ; Amedee, Lee 1
RBI: LaFleur, Trey 2 ; Higgs, Conor 1 ; DeBarge, Kyle 1 ; Amedee, Lee 1
SH: Broussard, Jr., Bryan 1
SF: DeBarge, Kyle 1
Base Running:
RUNS: LaFleur, Trey 1 ; Amedee, Lee 1 ; Torres, Jose 2 ; Broussard, Jr., Bryan 1
CS: Pastore, Duncan 1
HBP: Higgs, Conor 1
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H
1
RBI
1
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