Bengal bats silent at Delgado on Saturday afternoon
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The LSU Eunice baseball team was held to a combined seven hits over both games of a doubleheader to open their road series at Delgado on Saturday afternoon, dropping the opener 3-0 before falling in the second game 4-0.
The Bengals, the No. 1 team in the NJCAA Divison II polls, move to 34-6 on the season, while Delgado (No. 9, NJCAA Division I poll) improved to 35-7 with the wins.
In the opener, the visitors saw Casey Rodrigue (1-3) get on base with a one-out single in the first inning before he was later picked off to end the inning.
The Bengals wouldn’t see another base runner until the top of the seventh, when Rodrigue reached on an error and Stefan Trosclair (1-3) singled to left field. The threat ended when Troslcair was thrown out trying to steal as part of a strikeout-thrown out double play to end the inning.
Delgado scored a pair of runs in the second inning off of three hits before they added their final run in the fifth inning after a leadoff walk was followed by two hits.
Bengal starter Brady Domangue was saddled with his second loss of the season after tossing 7 2/3 innings and allowing seven hits and three runs with four walks and six strikeouts.
The second game was much of the same for LSU Eunice, who saw Adam Angelle lead the way with two hits, a leadoff single in the first inning and a double in the third inning before the Bengals left runners at second and third to end that threat.
LSU Eunice had a pair of scoring opportunities in the fourth and fifth innings, but saw Delgado cut down base runners at home both times.
In the fourth, Garrett Deschamp (1-3) led off with a single before he was cut down later in the inning trying to score on a ball hit in the infield by Dalton DeLeon as the Bengals later left DeLeon stranded on base to end the inning.
The same situation happened in the fifth inning after Derek Herrington (1-3) led off with a single before he was tagged out trying to score on a ball put in play by Angelle he was stranded to end the inning.
Trosclair opened the sixth inning with a leadoff single before three strikeouts ended the threat. The final Bengal base runners came in the seventh, as Kyle St. Pierre delivered a pinch hit walk and Angelle reached on an error, but Delgado struck out the final batter of the afternoon to close the game and end the rally.
Delgado scored two runs in both the fourth and fifth innings, first using a double and walk to lead off the fourth inning before they came around to score. In the fifth, Delgado used a pair of Bengal errors to score the final two runs of the afternoon.
Bengal starter Chad Reeves suffered his first loss of the season, allowing two hits, five walks and four runs (two earned) in his five innings of work.
The two teams wrap up their series with a 1 p.m. first pitch tomorrow afternoon. The game is available on Bengal All-Access and KVPI 1050 AM.
