Two out hits will carry a team a long way during the course of the season. Friday night at “The Pat” two out hitting lifted the Lions over Sam Houston State 9-5 in the first game of their Southland Conference weekend series. With the win the Lions move to 34-14 overall and 16-9 in the SLC.
Josh Cryer came up huge for SLU with two outs as he belted a two out three run double in the first inning to put the Lions up 3-0. Cryer came back in the 3rd inning and recorded his second two out run scoring hit as he drove home Cody Gougler with a single to center. Joe Sparacino followed with a RBI single of his own to give the Lions a 5-1 lead. Chris Ernest and Cass Hargis both went yard for the Lions as Trey Martin went 2-3, with a 2B, BB, 2 RBI, and 2 SB.
On the mound Brandon Efferson ran his record to 8-3 as he earned the victory. Efferson surrendered 4 runs on 8 hits and struck out 6 Bearkats in 6.1 innings of work. With his 8th win this season Efferson now has 16 wins in his career and needs one more to move into a tie for 10th all-time in school history with CJ Payne (1958-63).
And how about Johnny Poumaroux throwing out the first pitch...I think he intimated the Bearkat hitters with that fastball!
The series resumes tomorrow with a 2:00 pm start time.
Score by Innings R H E
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Sam Houston State... 010 010 210 - 5 14 2
Southeastern La..... 301 104 00X - 9 9 2
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WP - Brandon Efferson (8-3)
LP - Dallas Gallant (2-8)
SV - None
Top Hitters:
Trey Martin 2-3, 2B, BB, 2 RBI, Run Scored, 2 SB
Josh Cryer 2-4, 2B, 4 RBI
Chris Ernest 2-4, HR, RBI
Cass Hargis 1-5, HR, 2 RBI
Milestone Notes:
With 5 more wins SLU will set the single season victory mark with 39, passing the 1992 and 1993 teams.
With 6 more conference wins the Lions will set the single season conference victory mark with 22, passing the 2009 team.
With 3 more wins Jay Artigues will pass John Stephenson (1985-90) for 3rd place on the all-time coaching wins list with 163 carrer wins.
Brandon Efferson needs two more wins to move into 10th place all-time passing CJ Payne (1958-63).
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