PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana Christian University baseball program saw all three of the game's runs come in the third, capitalizing on a pickoff attempt gone haywire to score the go-ahead baserunner while a trio of pitchers locked down the Warriors' sticks for a tightly contested 2-1 dub.
 
The Basics:
 

• Score (7 Innings)
  • Louisiana Christian – 2
  • Midland – 1

 

• Records
  • Louisiana Christian (6-7, 0-0 Red River)
  • Midland (0-5, 0-0 Great Plains)

 

• Location
  • Pineville, Louisiana – Billy Allgood Field

  

• Series History (Since 2003)
  • Wildcats Lead 1-0 (100%)

 

• Winning Streak
  • Wildcats (W1) | Warriors' Last Win: N/A

 
Wildcats Top Performers:
 

• Jacob Bareswill made his second straight stellar start for Head Coach Mike Byrnes, yielding just one unearned run and three hits (plus a hit batter) with nary a walk plus a pair of Ks, improving to 2-0.

 

• Cowan Alfonso produced a perfect 1-2-3 seventh in order to hammer down save number two of his debut campaign donning Orange and Blue.

 

• Gavin Vordick, another newcomer to the 2025 edition of Wildcats baseball, drove in the lone RBI of the afternoon with a infield single to score pinch-runner Caleb Duhon while also collecting an addition knock and scoring the winning run on the botched pickoff during a 2-for-3 opener.

 

• Six-foot, 235-pounder Braden Trull showed off his wheels for his second career stolen base after making it on-base the hard way, a bean ball to the helmet.

 

• Kade Linn danced out of danger in the sixth and would receive a hold if the statistics was kept at the collegiate level, striking out one Midland batter while tightroping through a pair of runners in his three outs of work.

 

• Nick Lorio was the only other student-athlete to notch multiple successful plate appearances, singling once and coaxing a free pass on the other.

 

• Players who reached the basepaths safely for the Cats were Brady Huffman (single), Tyler McKenna (single), Harrison Waxley (single), Braxton Cooksey (single), Adrian Aguilar (single) and Jake Messina (walk)

 
Next:
  

• Game two of the four-game set is currently underway over in the Southeast corner of campus.

 

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