The SLU Lions cruised to a 12-3 victory over Alcorn State at The Pat on Wednesday night, giving head coach Jay Artigues his 220th career win as the Lions Skipper. Buck Bernard picked up his 2nd win of the season as he fanned seven batters over six innings, giving up one run on five hits. The Lions bats only picked up seven hits, however they picked up seven runs on three extra base hits and two sac flies.
In the March 27th edition of Perfect Game's Power Rankings, Kendall Rogers ranks junior 2B Brock Hebert as the #4 middle infielder in the country. Rogers does the power rankings, which ranks the top players in the country by position, each week. Click on the link below to see the article and click on the middle infielders link at the bottom to see the rankings of the top 2B/SS.
What started out as a good game got ugly quick, as Tulane scored six runs in the top of the 5th inning propelling them to a 7-2 mid-week win over the Lions at The Pat on Tuesday night. It was Tulane's first win in Hammond since the 2002 season. With the loss SLU falls to 18-7 on the season. The Lions return to action on Wednesday night against Alcorn State at The Pat. First pitch is set for 6pm.
In this weeks Perfect Game Top 50 poll the Lions join the rankings at number 36. SLU is sitting at 18-6 overall and 6-3 in the SLC after sweeping SLC foe UT-Arlington.
Junior 2B Brock Hebert was named the Southland Conference Hitter of the Week for his performance this weekend in the Lions three game sweep of UT-Arlington. For the week Hebert was 7-10 (.700) with a double, HR, 3 RBIs and 2 stolen bases. He also extended his hitting streak to 18 games. Junior LHP Jordan Hymel was named honorable mention Pitcher of the Week.
With a SLC series sweep over a very good Texas-Arlington team the Lions have jumped seven spots to number 14 in the College Baseball Daily's Mid-Major poll.