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PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana College baseball team jump-started its three-game American Southwest Conference East Division series against East Texas Baptist with a bang here Friday night, routing the Tigers 19-3.

All told, the Wildcats (16-8, 3-1 ASC East) racked up 19 runs on 16 hits with an assist of five errors from ETBU (8-15, 3-4 ASC East).

There were six Louisiana College batters with multiple hit games, but it was senior catcher Chris Waguespack (Destrehan, La./St. Charles Catholic/Delgado CC) who had the most noteworthy evening, and a personal best in 2011, going 3-for-4 with two home runs and five RBI.

The Wildcat bats were hot from the start and LC scored five runs on four hits and a Tiger error in the first inning.

Cody Laprarie (Bentley, La./Grant HS/LSU-Alexandria) took the second pitch offered by ETBU's Clay Hamblett off the left center-field wall for a double.

Two batters later, Laprarie scored on an RBI fielder's choice by Jordan Marks (Alexandria, La./Holy Savior Menard/LSU-Alexandria).

Before the inning ended, Mike Doughty (Crowley, La./Crowley HS/LSU-Eunice) had managed to bash another Hamblett offering to the left-wall for a three-RBI double and Brandt Daigle (Alexandria, La./Alexandria Senior HS) had rounded out the scoring with an RBI single through the left side.

By game's end, Laprarie had gone 3-for-6 with three runs scored, one RBI and a pair of doubles while Marks had accounted for five RBI and two doubles on 2-for-5 batting.

Doughty went 3-for-5 with a pair of runs scored and another driven in and Daigle 2-for-5 with two RBI.
ETBU mounted a small come back, scoring runs in the second and third innings, but a fifth-inning solo home run by Waguespack squashed the mini-flurry and brought the score to 6-2.

The Tigers added another unearned run in the sixth but an RBI double by Laprarie and two-RBI double by Marks and a three-run home run by Waguespack in the bottom of the inning gave the Wildcats a 12-3 lead.

A seven-run seventh sufficed to put the game well out of reach for the Tigers.

Starting righty Josh Foster (Houma, La./Winnfield HS) earned the win and improved to 4-1 on the season after pitching six full innings and allowing just one earned run while striking out seven.

Hamblett fell to 1-3 on the year after pitching the first four innings and striking out three.

The Wildcats and Tigers conclude their three-game series with a doubleheader beginning at noon on Saturday.