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Rawls, Hood Help Louisiana Pull Away From Bulldogs, 10-5
LAFAYETTE – Cooper Rawls didn’t should go 7.2 innings like he did the final time he confronted Louisiana Tech. However the end result was the identical.
Rawls scattered a pair of hits with six strikeouts in 4.2 innings of reduction work to enhance to 7-0 on the season whereas John Taylor and Heath Hood every drove in three runs in main the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns to a 10-5 victory over its in-state rival on Tuesday at M.L. “Tigue” Moore Area at Russo Park.
Louisiana (24-9), which received its sixth straight contest, overcame an early 3-1 deficit because it used a four-run, fifth inning earlier than scoring three extra runs late to say its second straight win over Louisiana Tech (16-17) and enhance to 84-71 within the all-time collection.
Hood, Taylor and Max Marusak every homered for the Ragin’ Cajuns, who recorded 11 hits with six going for additional bases. Hood, Carson Roccaforte and Ruston, La., native CJ Willis had two hits apiece for Louisiana with Julian Brock including a double with a pair of walks.
Rawls, who earned his first victory for the Ragin’ Cajuns in an 8-6 win on April 6, 2022, entered within the second inning in reduction of starter Brendan Moody and practically acquired the Ragin’ Cajuns out of the inning earlier than an error gave the Bulldogs a 3-1 lead. The appropriate-hander proceeded to retire 10 straight batters he confronted earlier than Dalton Davis blooped a two-out single to left within the fifth.
Louisiana chipped away at lead starting with Will Veillon’s one-out double within the second to plate Brock earlier than tying the competition within the third after Ben Robichaux scored from third forward of Roccaforte getting caught in an inning-ending rundown between first and second.
Hood would break the sport open for Louisiana within the fifth when he lined a triple into the hole in right-center discipline off Louisiana Tech’s Ryan Harland (0-4) to drive in Willis and Robichaux. Willis led off the inning with a single earlier than transferring to second on Marusak’s sacrirfice bunt earlier than Robichaux was hit by a pitch.
Roccaforte adopted with an RBI single by the appropriate aspect to offer Louisiana a 6-3 lead earlier than scoring on Taylor’s RBI grounder.
Louisiana Tech would minimize the lead in half within the sixth after Brady Drost was hit by a pitch and Logan McLeod belted his first dwelling run of the season with a shot to proper.
Taylor would assist Louisiana pad its lead with two outs within the seventh when hit a towering, two-run dwelling run to proper off Bulldog reliever Landon Tomkins for a 9-5 lead. Marusak recorded Louisiana’s third dwelling run of the sport – all with two outs – within the eighth inning when he homered to heart for his third of the season.
Carson Fluno pitched the ultimate 3.0 innings to document his third save of the season for Louisiana, which scattered eight hits general within the contest and struck out 12 batters. Fluno allowed a pair of hits and fanned 4.
Davis went 3-for-5 to guide Louisiana Tech on the plate whereas McLeod was 2-for-4 with three RBI. Harland allowed 5 hits and 4 runs in 3.0 innings in reduction for the Bulldogs.
Louisiana will return to motion on Wednesday when it travels east to face one other in-state foe – Southeastern Louisiana (16-16) – in a 6 p.m. contest at Pat Kenelly Diamond at Alumni Area. The sport will likely be streamed dwell on ESPN+ and will be heard within the Lafayette space on 103.3 The Goat, 1420 AM and worldwide on the Varsity Community app.
Single-game tickets can be found by visiting the Louisiana Athletics Field Workplace on the Cajundome or buying by visiting Account Supervisor [am.ticketmaster.com]. For extra info name the Louisiana Athletics Field Workplace on the Cajundome at (337) 265-2104.
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