RUSTON, La. – Louisiana Tech falls in game two of the midweek series 8-6 to UL-Lafayette on Wednesday night at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.
LA Tech (20-10, 6-3 C-USA) splits the midweek series with UL-Lafayette (15-14, 4-5 Sun Belt) as
Taylor Young and
Walker Burchfield both go deep and
Ryan Harland makes his first career start in four solid innings of work.
The Bulldogs jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first as Burchfield collected a two-run double down the line and
Kyle Hasler singled up the middle with two-outs.
LA Tech plated one more in the second and one more in the third from two solo shots by Young and Burchfield.
Left-hander
Ryan Harland was excellent in his first career start going 4 innings allowing one run, walking none and striking out four.
The Ragin' Cajuns plated seven of their eight runs all in the sixth inning on six hits.
Jarret Whorff collects the loss in relief.
ULL right-hander Cooper Rawls was spectacular tossing the final 7.2 giving up one and striking out 12 as he earned his first win of the season.
NOTABLES
- Harland made his first collegiate start
- Four Bulldogs with two-hit days
- Young hits home run in back-to-back games
- Young now with 13 multi-hit games
- Burchfield launches home run number four on the year
- Fincher works 1.2 innings of scoreless ball
- Crigger strikes out three in the ninth
QUOTABLES
Head Coach Lane Burroughs
"Give their guy credit he only had two innings on the year with three strikeouts and now he has 15. He made us like it. He absolutely diced us up. Disappointing we couldn't do anything with it, but that is the way it goes. We set it up a couple of times and didn't get it done."
On Harland's performance…
"He was outstanding. He has been that way all year. It's different now that he was starting because it is a different routine and he is not just going down and getting hot. He was good and he settled in. He threw strikes, got underneath their barrel with his changeup. It was encouraging to see him do that in a starting role."
UP NEXT
The Bulldogs will host the Rice Owls over the weekend beginning Friday at 6 p.m.
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