Saturday, May 11
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Georgia Southern University
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Louisiana
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Photo by: AJ Henderson - Georgia Southern Athletics
Eagles Fall in Game Two to Cajuns
5/11/2024 5:43:00 PM | Baseball
STATESBORO - The Georgia Southern baseball team fell 6-4 to the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns on Saturday afternoon at J.I. Clements Stadium.
Louisiana (37-15, 20-6) put up four runs combined in the second and third innings to build a 4-0 lead before the Eagles (27-23, 15-11 SBC) responded in the bottom of the sixth inning. Sean Smith's two-RBI double, scoring Sam Blancato and Jarrett Brown, put the Eagles on the board and cut the lead in half at 4-2. T.J. McKenzie followed with a sac fly to right field to score Sean White and cut the lead to 4-3 after six frames.
In the next inning, Southern tied the game with a Blancato solo-homer over the Blue Monster. With no score by either side in the eighth inning, the teams carried a 4-4 score into the final frame of regulation.
The Cajuns were able to score two runs in the top of the ninth, the first from an RBI-single and the second from a wild pitch. The Eagles would have a runner on and the tying run at the plate, but the Cajuns were able to hold off the Eagles rally for a 6-4 win.
JT Etheridge was tagged with the win after 1.2 frames of scoreless baseball, while Mitchell Gross fell to 2-4 on the season.
UP NEXT
Georgia Southern looks to prevent the sweep on Sunday afternoon. First pitch is set for 1 p.m., while the Senior Day ceremony is set to begin at approximately 12:40.
Louisiana (37-15, 20-6) put up four runs combined in the second and third innings to build a 4-0 lead before the Eagles (27-23, 15-11 SBC) responded in the bottom of the sixth inning. Sean Smith's two-RBI double, scoring Sam Blancato and Jarrett Brown, put the Eagles on the board and cut the lead in half at 4-2. T.J. McKenzie followed with a sac fly to right field to score Sean White and cut the lead to 4-3 after six frames.
In the next inning, Southern tied the game with a Blancato solo-homer over the Blue Monster. With no score by either side in the eighth inning, the teams carried a 4-4 score into the final frame of regulation.
The Cajuns were able to score two runs in the top of the ninth, the first from an RBI-single and the second from a wild pitch. The Eagles would have a runner on and the tying run at the plate, but the Cajuns were able to hold off the Eagles rally for a 6-4 win.
JT Etheridge was tagged with the win after 1.2 frames of scoreless baseball, while Mitchell Gross fell to 2-4 on the season.
UP NEXT
Georgia Southern looks to prevent the sweep on Sunday afternoon. First pitch is set for 1 p.m., while the Senior Day ceremony is set to begin at approximately 12:40.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: JT Etheridge (3-2)
L: Gross, Mitchell (2-4)
Batting:
2B: Trey LaFleur 1
HR: Kyle DeBarge 1
RBI: Kyle DeBarge 2 ; Ben Robichaux 1 ; Jose Torres 1
SH: Jose Torres 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Conor Higgs 1 ; Kyle DeBarge 1 ; John Taylor 2 ; Caleb Stelly 1 ; Jr Bryan Broussard 1
SB: Caleb Stelly 1
CS: Trey LaFleur 1
Batting:
2B: Blancato, Sam 1 ; Kaiser, JD 1 ; Smith, Sean 1
HR: Blancato, Sam 1
RBI: Blancato, Sam 1 ; Smith, Sean 2 ; McKenzie, T.J. 1
SF: McKenzie, T.J. 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Blancato, Sam 2 ; Brown, Jarrett 1 ; White, Sean 1
Game Leaders
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2
H
3
RBI
1
AB
4
R
0
H
2
RBI
2
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