RUSTON, La. – Louisiana Tech drops the midweek matchup with Dallas Baptist 7-4 on Tuesday night at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.
LA Tech (18-7, 5-1 C-USA) falls to DBU (16-8, 0-0 MVC) on Tuesday night. Miguel Santos and Cole Moore led the charge for the Patriot offense. Santos was 3-for-4 with a double, a walk and an RBI. Moore went 2-for-5 with two doubles and an RBI.
Cole McConnell collected two hits, driving in three of the Bulldogs four runs.
Philip Matulia and
Adarius Myers also recorded two hits.
The ballgame was scoreless through the first two frames. The Patriots got on the board first as Nate Rombach came around to score on a wild pitch in the third.
In the top of the fourth DBU strung together three hits to lead off the inning. DBU tallied two runs on a Santos single and a two-out wild pitch.
Jackson Lancaster inherited the bases loaded with no outs and worked around the damage striking out two.
The Bulldogs jumped on the board in the fifth coming from a McConnell RBI single up the middle.
Steele Netterville followed with a single and Matulia drove in another run, singling to center field. All three hits came with two out to cut the deficit to 3-2.
DBU answered with a two spot in the sixth on a throwing error and a fielder's choice.
McConnell delivered a clutch two-out two-run single in the bottom of the sixth bringing the contest closer, 5-4.
The Patriots scored one more in the seventh and one in the eighth to secure the win, 7-4.
Zach Heaton earned the win on a predetermined pitch count, tossing 2.2 innings allowing just one hit, no runs and striking out three.
Greg Martinez suffers his first loss of the season going three innings allowing six hits, three earned runs and punching out two.
Chandler Arnold collected his fifth save of the year hurling the final inning working around two hits and striking out two Bulldog batters.
NOTABLES
- Taylor Young extends on-base streak to 19 (Reached base safely in 24 of 25 games)
- Cole McConnell tallies three RBI moving to seventh in the nation with 37.
- First four Bulldog runs all came with two outs.
- Adarius Myers was 2-for-2 with a walk and run scored off the bench.
- Kyle Crigger made his team-leading 11th appearance.
QUOTABLES
Head Coach Lane Burroughs
"Two really good teams playing tonight. That was a regional type of game. I told our guys after the game, that's what those games look like. We saw really good arms on both sides throwing 95 mph and up. Obviously, we do not like to lose. Nobody hates losing more than me. But like I tell the guys all the time, if you compete and play hard and leave it out there I have no problem with it. And we did that tonight. We competed our tails off. We competed to the last out. Sometimes it doesn't go your way and it didn't tonight."
"The winds blowing in really hard. We got on some balls.
Steele Netterville and
Walker Burchfield both hit balls that would normally be no doubters. But so did they. It's really hard to split a gap with the wind, but their guy did it twice."
"It was good to see those arms. We will see more of those this weekend. It will be three days of elite arms just like we saw tonight."
UP NEXT
The Bulldogs travel to Hattiesburg to face Southern Miss for a three-game set beginning Friday at 6 p.m.
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