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Box Score 2 Alexandria, Louisiana – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor baseball team used three game two home runs to salvage a split of a doubleheader with Louisiana College Saturday afternoon. The Cru took game two 5-1 after dropping an 8-0 decision in game one. UMHB is now 17-5 overall and 13-4 in American Southwest Conference play on the season. Louisiana College moves to 7-14 overall and 6-11 in the ASC on the year.
UMHB bounced back from the game one loss to take game two 5-1 on the strength of three home runs. LC grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first, but
Tyler Taute's two-run homer made it 2-1 Cru in the top of the third.
Cole Hill added a solo shot to stretch the UMHB lead to 3-1 in the top of the fifth inning.
Zack Whiddon ripped a TWO-OUT, two-run blast to right field in the top of the ninth to give the Cru a 5-1 advantage.
Tripp Reeves had two of UMHB's six hits in the win.
Ian Ekery earned the win for the Cru to move to 4-1 on the year. Ekery scattered nine hits and did not allow an earned run in seven and a-third innings of work.
Aaron Barteau earned his third save of the year with one and two-thirds innings of hitless relief work. Kyle Feazell had three of the Wildcats nine hits and Brennan Russell took the loss on the mound for LC to fall to 0-1.
The Cru could not overcome Louisiana College's seven-run fifth inning in an 8-0 loss in game one. The game was a scoreless pitcher's duel into the bottom of the fifth before the Wildcats erupted. Three different players had two-run singles as LC bunched together five hits and made the most of two Cru errors in the game. The Wildcats added another insurance run on another UMHB error in the bottom of the sixth. The Cru only advanced two runners to third base in the loss as LC pitcher Madison Lachney tossed a complete-game, six-hit shutout to move to 3-4 on the season. Kade Van Norman and Taylor Beavers both had two hits and two RBI for the Wildcats.
Dakota Parsons had two of UMHB's six hits in the game. Nick Bergmann took the loss to fall to 4-2 after giving up four hits and five runs in four and two-thirds innings of work. The Cru committed five errors in the loss.
The weekend series has been moved to Cheatham Park, a public field in Alexandria, due to wet conditions on the LC campus. The two teams will close out the series with a noon doubleheader on Sunday. UMHB will then return home to host U.T.-Dallas for a three-game ASC series next weekend at Red Murff Field.
