NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Louisiana Christian University baseball program scored in each of the final eight innings while the relief pitchers overwhelmed the Xavier bats as the Wildcats take the series opener over the Gold Rush by a 13-5 final score.
 
The Basics:
 

• Score
  • Louisiana Christian – 13
  • Xavier (Louisiana) – 5

 

• Records
  • Louisiana Christian (13-14, 4-6 Red River)
  • Xavier-Louisiana (4-15, 3-10 Red River)

 

• Location
  • New Orleans, Louisiana – Skelly-Rupp Stadium

 

• Series History (Since 1975)
  • Wildcats Lead 8-2 (80%)

 

• Winning Streak
  • Louisiana Christian (W5) | Gold Rush's Last Win: February 18, 2023 (Game 1, 3-1)

 
Wildcats Top Performers:
 

• Coleman Haltom put forth the night of his life on his way to registering win number two as a Cat, firing a tied for personal-best five innings and a career-high seven strikeouts with just four hits plus a walk ceded.

 

• The other half of the bullpen's big night came off the arm of Colton Williams, collecting his second career save via two nearly flawless frames that saw only one hit tallied and a punchout.

 

• Brady Huffman had a rarely seen stat line in which the redshirt freshman walked three times, drove in an additional three RBIs, two of those ribbies coming on his one hit (a single), and a pair of steals.

 

• Harrison Waxley is starting to catch fire again, strengthening his case for back-to-back RRAC Player of the Week honors during an evening where he went 2-for-4 with two free passes, an RBI, and scored twice.

 

• Logan Bertucci was the third player to reach safely at least thrice in the Big Easy, doubling for his lone knock on top of two bases on balls.

 

• The fourth and final student-athlete to make it on the base paths on three-plus occasions was Braxton Cooksey, joining Waxley as the other multi-hit performer (2-of-4) to go along with a hit-by-pitch.

 

• The doubles-happy visitors racked up another five two-baggers in the opener with one apiece by Cooksey, Bertucci, Adrian Aguilar, Drake Aldridge, and Braden Trull.

 
Next:
  

• The men from Pineville can return to .500 both in the overall record as well as in the Red River with a win or two Friday afternoon, eyeing back-to-back series victories starting at 1 p.m. for the twin-bill.

 

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