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Louisiana Drops Heartbreaker To No. 15 Texas State, 6-4
SAN MARCOS, Texas – John Wuthrich capped off a three-run, eighth inning with a go-ahead two-run homer and No. 15 Texas State claimed a 6-4 win over the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Baseball group within the second recreation of a three-game Solar Belt Convention sequence on Saturday at Bobcat Ballpark.
Peyton Lewis added a solo residence run within the second inning whereas Justin Thompson and Dalton Shuffield had two hits every as Texas State (40-11, 22-4 SBC) received its sixth straight recreation.
Louisiana (30-19, 17-9 SBC) took an early 1-0 lead within the first inning when Connor Kimple led off with a single and finally scored on Carson Roccaforte’s RBI grounder to second.
A pair of RBI doubles by Shuffield and Justin Thompson within the first gave Texas State a 2-1 lead earlier than Lewis homered to proper off Louisiana starter Jacob Schultz.
Kyle DeBarge’s two-out, double down the left-field line within the fourth inning scored Tyler Robertson to chop the deficit to 3-2 earlier than Kimple and Roccaforte belted solo residence runs within the fifth chase Texas State starter Levi Wells and provides Louisiana a 4-3 lead.
The Bobcats rallied within the eighth after Shuffield led off with a single-off Schultz, who pitched 7.0 innings with 5 strikeouts. Dylan Theut acquired Jose Gonzalez to floor out and allowed Shuffield to advance to second earlier than transferring to 3rd on Jake Hammond’s errant pickoff throw.
Thompson then tied the sport at 4-4 when his sacrifice fly to middle scored Shuffield earlier than a stroll to Wesley Faison and Wuthrich’s homer put Texas State forward for good.
Cameron Bush (2-2) pitched 2.0 innings and fanned two to earn the win for Texas State with Tristan Stivors pitching a scoreless ninth, getting Roccaforte to floor right into a game-ending double play, to earn his 14th save.
Robertson went 3-for-3 to steer Louisiana on the plate with Kimple going 2-for-4 and DeBarge 2-for-3. Heath Hood, Julian Brock, and Conor Higgs every recorded hits for the Ragin’ Cajuns, who completed with 11 hits and turned a season-high 4 double performs.
Hammond (2-1) suffered the loss for Louisiana after permitting a pair of runs with a stroll in 0.2 innings.
The ultimate recreation of the three-game sequence is scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m. The sport shall be streamed stay on ESPN+ with followers within the Lafayette space in a position to hearken to the sport on KPEL-FM (96.5). Louisiana will ship right-hander Jeff Wilson (4-2, 3.86 ERA) to the mound with Texas State countering with right-hander Tony Robie (2-0, 4.99 ERA).
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