PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana Christian University baseball program improved to 27-23 and 16-14 in the Red River Athletic Conference with its 13-2 seven-inning victory over Texas College on Saturday afternoon, making it a lock to finish the year with a winning overall record of the fifth straight season dating back to 2021 as well as its seventh consecutive campaign with a record of .500 or better since 2018.
 
Prior to Head Coach Mike Byrnes' arrival in the dugout, the Wildcats had accrued only nine winning seasons over its first 61 years as a varsity sport, but since the beginning of the 1979 Louisiana College graduate's leadership, the Orange and Blue have notched 14 over 25 campaigns or 56% of the time.
 
The Basics:
 

• Score (7 Innings)
  • Louisiana Christian – 13
  • Texas College – 2

 

• Records
  • Louisiana Christian (27-23, 16-14 Red River)
  • Texas College (2-36, 1-29 Red River)

 

• Location
  • Pineville, Louisiana – Billy Allgood Field

 

• Series History
  • Wildcats Lead 29-4 (87.9%)

 

• Winning Streak
  • Wildcats (W13) | Steers' Last Win: February 10, 2015 (Game 2, 9-8)

 
Wildcats Top Performers:
 

• Gavin Vordick, Braxton Cooksey, and Harrison Waxley all drove led the offense with two RBIs apiece as Vordick also walked while Cooksey did his stick work without a hit (sac fly and RBI-groundout).

 

• Brady Huffman could not escape the wrath of the rawhide, wearing both of the team's hit-by-pitches during his only two plate appearances of the day, but he made the Steers pay by stealing second on top of scoring each time.

 

• A trio of players drew multiple free passes (Braden Trull, Tyler McKenna, and Chris Kelley) however, only Kelley added a knock, doubling home Zac Bacilla to put the Cats over the run-rule.

 

• Bacilla and Nick Lorio were the recipients of multi-hit outings, going a combined 4-for-4 with three doubles, two by the former.

 

• In the ultimate bullpen game in which seven pitchers recorded three outs in separate frames, the quartet of Owen Simoneaux (Win, 2-1), Cooksey, Kade Linn, and Cowan Alfonso all picked up two strikeouts without denting the scoreboard.

 
Next:
  

• Louisiana Christian will be either the sixth or seventh seed during next week's RRAC Tournament in Sterlington, facing Houston-Victoria, Our Lady of the Lake or Texas A&M-Texarkana in the Opening Round of the newly-formatted round robin.

 

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