Todd Ryals

Baseball Loses DH to Tyler

4/8/2017 9:49:00 PM

By: LC Sports Information - Brad Welborn

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After an exciting walk-off win in the bottom of the ninth on Friday, the Louisiana College Wildcats carried some momentum into Saturday's doubleheader against the University of Texas at Tyler but the Patriots were too much for LC, taking both games of the day. UTT scored late in the first game of the day to take the 5-1 victory and used back-to-back four run innings to carry themselves to a 13-6 win in game two. The Wildcats travel to the University of Texas at Dallas next Thursday for an American Southwest Conference road series and will return to Billy Allgood Field on April 21 for a non-conference doubleheader against Centenary College.

Game 1

The Patriots took the lead in the top of the first inning on a sacrifice fly to center and a ground ball out to second base, giving themselves a 2-0 lead in the game. The Wildcats cut the lead in half two innings later in the bottom of the third on a sacrifice fly of their own off the bat of Sully Martin, that brought Zane Corbell in to score from third. Corbell was hit by a pitch, stole second, and moved to third on a wild pitch to put himself in scoring position.

After the 2-run first inning, LC starter Austin Thompson settled into the game and cruised through the next four innings. In the sixth, four straight base hits by the first four batters of the inning led to three more runs for the Patriots and a 5-1 lead entering the final inning. The Wildcats didn't have enough magic from Friday as a ground ball double play to second ended the game for the Wildcats.

The Wildcats had three hits in the game, two of them coming from short stop Seth Stevens. Walt Aldridge had the only other hit for LC in the game. Austin Thompson pitched five innings, allowing five runs on seven hits with two strikeouts. Carson Bolyer threw the final two innings without allowing a run and only one hit.

Game 2

After a scoreless first inning, the Patriots went on top first once again, with a 2-out, 2-run double to right center in the top of the second inning. The Wildcats were able to answer back in the bottom of the inning thanks to some help from the Patriots defense.

LC loaded the bases with two walks and an infield single from the first three batters. Garrett Parker grounded into a double play, but Kiefer Moore was able to score on the play, making the score 2-1 Patriots. The next batter, Steven Pizano, reached on a throwing error that would have ended the inning for UTT, allowing Walt Aldridge to score from third. After a walk to Zane Corbell moving Pizano to second, Sully Martin shot a ball through the left side plating Pizano and giving LC a 3-2 lead, their first lead since the ninth inning on Friday night.

The Wildcats lead only lasted an inning at the Patriots pushed four runs across in the top of the fourth inning, scoring on two base hits, a wild pitch, a sacrifice fly. They extended their lead in the next inning with another four spot on a base hit up the middle and a 3-run home run to left, all with two outs in the inning.

LC chipped away at the Tyler lead in the next two innings on back-to-back extra base hits to start the sixth from Dustin Brown and Deauton Delgado. Brown led off with a double and Delgado brought him in with a triple, then scored on a ground out to short but LC still trailed 10-5. In the seventh Seth Stevens ripped a double to left and came in to score on a Kiefer Moore single up the middle, making the score 10-6 Patriots.

That would be as close as the Wildcats would get the rest of the way as Tyler plated two more runs in the eighth and another in the ninth to secure their series win over LC. Austin Taylor started for the Wildcats and pitched three innings, allowing two earned runs on three hits. Courtney Forbes took the loss for the Wildcats pitching only 0.1 innings giving up three runs on one hit in the top of the fourth. Sully Martin (2-5) was the only Wildcats with multiple hits in the game and Seth Stevens, Dustin Brown, and Deauton Delgado each had extra base hits in the game.

The Wildcats travel to UT Dallas next weekend for another ASC series before playing a home-and-home four game series with Centenary on April 21-22. The two games at Billy Allgood Field will be on Friday beginning at 1 p.m. LC will play their final ASC series at home the last weekend of April against the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Stay connected to Louisiana College baseball at www.lcwildcats.net, liking LC Athletics on Facebook, and following @LC_bsb on Twitter.

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