Sunday, February 21, 2010

Week in Review - Lions SWEEP

Outstanding pitching, productive hitting, and a much improved defense earn the Lions a sweep to open the 2010 season.
In Friday’s opening day game, the Southeastern pitching was pretty tough but the defense was a little shaky and committed 7 errors on the night. However, the offense didn’t waiver and mounted a come from behind rally scoring a total of 5 runs in the 8th and 9th innings to give the Lions a 6-5 win over the Eastern Illinois Panthers.

Outfielder Jeff Harkensee belted his first career homerun as a Lion.

Shortstop Justin Boudreaux added a hot bat going 3-4 with a double.

Freshman pinch hitter Chad Livingston recorded his first collegiate hit with a clutch RBI single in the eighth.

Pitcher Tyler Watkins made his Lion debut tossing 6.2 innings with 5 strikeouts.

In game two, the Lion defense was flawless playing 9 innings of errorless ball in the 11-5 victory over EIU.

Freshman pitcher Stefan Lopez notched his first collegiate start on the hill.

Freshman pitcher Jordan Hymel made his collegiate debut as a reliever.

Freshman infielder Brock Hebert recorded his first collegiate hit with a 2 RBI single to center.

Outfielder Cass Hargis was seeing double going 3-4 with 3 two-baggers.

Freshman infielder Alex Marse recorded his first collegiate RBI and run scored.

In Sunday’s series finale, the Lions earned the opening weekend sweep by defeating the Panthers 7-2.

Freshman catcher Chad Gough-Fortenberry notched his first collegiate hit with a single in inning number two.

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