RUSTON, La. – Louisiana Tech shutout Houston Baptist 6-0 on Sunday afternoon at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park to complete the series sweep.
 
LA Tech (11-5) recorded its first shutout of the season as three pitchers combined to do so.
 
Jarret Whorff earned his first win of 2022 tossing five innings, with only three hits allowed and five strikeouts. Jackson Lancaster and Kyle Crigger combined for the final four innings of work racking up five punch outs and one hit.
 
Kyle Hasler made his first start of the season behind the plate and made an immediate impact. Hasler came up with a crucial two-out, two-run single in the first inning that ultimately decided the game.
 
The Bulldogs scored four more runs in the fourth inning. Steele Netterville brought in a run on a sac-fly to right field. The other three runs came across by two Huskie errors.
 
Jorge Corona and Bryce Wallace were both 2-for-4 at the plate, leading the Bulldogs in hits.
 
LA Tech outscored Houston Baptist (6-11) 40-5 on the weekend.
 
NOTABLES

• First shutout of the season
• Four straight victories
• Taylor Young goes 11-for-17 (.647) on the week with five extra-base hits and eight RBI
• Young has now reached base in 15 of 16 games this season
• Bulldog hitters struck out just three times

 
QUOTABLES
Head Coach Lane Burroughs
 
"We needed this sweep and we went out and got it. I didn't think we played particularly well today. One of the things I was disappointed with today was our energy. We did enough to win and that is what good teams do. They didn't score a run and I thought our pitching was just okay. We got into a lot of traffic, and our command wasn't great. That's what I told our team is that we expect a lot out of them. It was good see Jarret (Whorff) pitch deeper into the ballgame and that's the deepest his pitched all year."
 
"Very proud of Kyle Hasler. He hasn't caught a full game all year and he was really good. He got the big hit in the first. If we don't get that, the game could be hanging in the balance and who knows how it ends up."
 
"We talked about that in the fourth, when we had the four-run inning we only had one hit. We talk about the ingredients of a big inning every day. Walk, hit-by-pitch and error. You don't always have to hit yourself to a big inning and rarely do teams do that. But if you embrace the walk and the hit-by-pitch, that can disengage a defense and they will kick some balls around and we saw that."
 
 UP NEXT
The Bulldogs hit the road this week to UL-Monroe on Tuesday and open up conference play at UTSA on Friday.
 
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