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PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana College baseball team was right in both of their games on Sunday afternoon, but timely hitting by Rhodes College allowed the Lynx to sweep LC, dropping the Wildcats to 2-3.

Neither pitcher allowed an earned run in the first contest, but the game ended 3-2 in favor of the visiting Lynx. Justin Reed and Taylor Babich both turned in stellar pitching performances for their team,
with each hurler taking a no-hitter into the fifth inning. Babich earned the win with a 6.2 inning, three hit performance, while Justin Reed struck out seven and allowed four hits over six innings to take
the hard-luck loss.

Brogan Jayne had a two-run single to cap off the three-run sixth inning for Rhodes College. Trouble started in the sixth when Walt McGee threw a ground-ball wide of first-base, pulling Mike Doughty off
of the bag and allowing Lynx second baseman Nick Belisle to reach. A walk and two straight singles allowed Belisle to score. Reed got DH Austin Marcum to strike out swinging, but Jayne delivered with the two out knock through the middle.

LC made a comeback effort in the last half-inning, when pinch hitter Matt Savoie stroked an RBI double to left field, and pinch runner Cole Bagbey scored on a Cole Bishop single, but it was a case of too little, too late for the home team. Matt Gertz came in to record the final out and pick up the save as the Lynx took the first two games of the weekend series.

Jonathan Ettinger picked up a single for the Wildcats, as did Steven Bowman, who swung the bat well all weekend.

In the nightcap, the hosts again hung with Rhodes College, who got another great pitching performance from their starter, Jackson Baker, only to fall by a count of 7-2.

Baker held the Wildcats to three hits and only one unearned run over five and two-thirds of an inning.
 
Louisiana College went into the seventh inning trailing by a run, and could have been tied up but for an unsuccessful squeeze play that saw Cole Bagbey caught stealing home. In the top of the seventh, the Lynx hammered reliever Grant Cox, who allowed five earned runs on three hits and three walks in just an inning and a third.

Cody Laprairie, who went 3-4 in the contest, homered to lead off the bottom of the seventh, but that was all the offensive comeback that LC could muster. Anthony Vangessel, who started and went five innings,
allowing two runs, took the loss for Louisiana College, who only knocked eight hits over the two games.