Box Score
PINEVILLE, La. - Friday night, the Louisiana College baseball team fell to fifth-ranked Texas-Tyler in American Southwest Conference East Division action, 4-2. Small-ball was important in the game as neither team notched an extra base hit. The same two teams conclude their three-game series with a doubleheader tomorrow at noon.

Tyler (29-6, 11-2) took advantage of an LC (17-18, 4-9) error to take a 1-0 lead in the first inning. With two outs, LC first baseman Tyler Bray misplayed a grounder from Chad Daleiden, allowing Jeremy Harding to score from first base. In the bottom of the frame, LC bounced back and plated two runs on Walt McGee and Jonathan Ettinger RBI singles. Both teams pitchers settled down after that and neither team scored again until the top of the fourth when Tyler tied the game at two on an RBI sinlge from Kendall Fox.

Just before Tyler scored the tying run in the top of the fourth, LC squandered a scoring opportunity as they hit into a bases loaded, one-out, double play to end the third inning. Tyler's other two runs came in the top of the eighth and ninth inning as they manufactured single runs in each of those frames. In the eighth, Joseph Towns led the inning off with a single, was wild pitched to third and sacrificed to third. Paige Hodges then delivered a sacrifice fly that scored Towns, breaking the 2-2 tie. In the ninth, Tyler pushed their run across when Fox executed a squeeze play that scored Nathan Skeen, who had led the inning off with a single.

Lex Wolfe (5-0) picked up the win. After allowing seven hits in the first three innings. Wolfe settled down and only allowed two runners from the fourth thru the eighth inning. Beau Zeigler pitched a perfect ninth to pick up his sixth save of the year. Dustin Tubre (1-2) was the tough luck loser. Tubre allowed four runs (two earned) on five hits with five strikeouts and four walks.