Final Stats

NATCHITOCHES, La. - Louisiana Tech scored six runs over a three-inning window to extend its winning streak to five games in Tuesday's 6-0 road victory over Northwestern State at Brown-Stroud Field in Natchitoches.

LA Tech (32-14) and Northwestern State (27-20) will battle each other once again on the diamond at 6 p.m. Wednesday at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park in Ruston. The Bulldogs have won five straight over the Demons dating back to the 2014 season following tonight's victory.

For the sixth time this season, the LA Tech pitching staff put nothing but zeros on the scoreboard with the Bulldogs' tossing their sixth shutout of the season Tuesday in the 6-0 victory over the Demons. Northwestern State has now been shut out twice this season following the performance by the LA Tech pitchers.

Braden Bristo picked up the victory on the mound after pitching five shutout innings while only allowing four hits on the night. Bristo (5-5) struck out six Demons and did not walk a batter before coming off in the sixth inning in favor of Nate Harris. Harris pitched into the ninth and did not allow a hit until the final inning. Casey Sullivan came on with two on and no outs in the ninth before pitching out of the jam to clinch the victory. LA Tech pitchers struck out 11 and walked just two on the night.

Jeffrey Stovall (4-5) was charged with the loss for the Demons after allowing three runs ââ'¬" two earned ââ'¬" on three hits and two strikeouts in five innings of work. Devin Bear pitched two-thirds of an inning in the sixth and allowed one run before Kyle Swanson gave up two on the night. Nathan Aultman pitched the 2.1 innings for NSU and held LA Tech hitless over that span with three strikeouts.

After LA Tech was no-hit through the first four innings, the Bulldog bats heated up in the fifth when Jonathan Washam ripped a double to left followed by RBI base hits by Marshall Boggs and Taylor Love to give Tech a 3-0 lead over the Demons.

The Bulldogs kept the momentum going in the sixth when Chandler Hall's double set up Jordan Washam's RBI single to left-center that extended LA Tech's lead to four runs.

In the seventh, the Bulldogs kept tacking on runs thanks to back-to-back solo home runs by Taylor Love and Brent Diaz to put LA Tech up, 6-0, over Northwestern State through eight innings. It marks the second time this season the Bulldogs have homered on consecutive at bats.

In Love's first game back from injury, he led LA Tech hitters with a 2-for-4 night with a double, home run, two RBI's and two runs scored. Boggs also recorded two hits on the night with a 2-for-4 effort, an RBI and a run. Diaz was 1-for-3 with his solo home run in the seventh, while Jordan Washam tallied a hit and RBI. LA Tech had eight hits as a team and stranded just two base runners.

The Bulldogs will turn around and return the favor by hosting the Demons at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Ruston. Tech travels to Hattiesburg for a three-game Conference USA series against Southern Miss beginning Friday.

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