Bengal bats blow past Tyler in series opener
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The LSU Eunice baseball team had a lineup full of hot bats on Friday night, running away with an 11-1 victory over Tyler Junior College in the first game of their series.
The Bengals (36-7) scored in five of the seven innings, including multiple runs in the first, third and fifth frames, as they collected 14 hits as a team.
“I thought it was a complete game effort. Offensively, we swung the bat and we hit a lot of balls hard, even our outs were hard outs. Brady Domangue was impressive as well,” head coach Jeff Willis said.
Casey Rodrigue led the way with his 3-for-5 performance, adding three RBIs, two coming on his triple in the fifth.
LSU Eunice also saw two-hit nights from Adam Angelle, Stefan Trosclair, Landon Thibodeaux and Derek Herrington. Trosclair and Thibodeaux each drove in two RBIs, while the Bengals also received an RBI each from Buddy McCoy (0-4), Ray Veit (0-4) and Evan Powell (1-4), with Powell’s run coming on a solo homer over the left field wall in the third inning.
Garrett Deschamp (1-3, BB) and Kyle St. Pierre (1-1) added the other Bengal hits.
Domangue improved to 10-2 on the season with his seven inning complete game, allowing seven hits and one unearned run along with three strikeouts.
Tyler (28-15) used a Bengal error, followed by a pair of singles, in the top of the first to plate what would be their only run.
The hosts responded in the bottom of the frame with four runs, highlighted by Thobodeaux’s two-run double down the left field line.
In the second inning, Angelle opened with a single before scoring two batters later on Trosclair’s RBI base hit to extend the lead. The third inning saw Powell’s solo homer, his first of the season, followed by a double from Herrington. Herrington would later score on a wild pitch to push the lead to six.
The fifth inning saw Rodrigue’s two-run triple off the wall in deep right-center field before he scored later in the inning on a Tyler error.
Rodrigue finished the night in the seventh with his RBI single to plate Herrington after a leadoff walk.
“We need to press reset after tonight and realize nothing carries over. Tonight we played very well and I don’t think they played their best. I expect them to show up and play like we saw them play when we were up in Tyler,” Willis said.
Tomorrow’s game is set for a 6 p.m. first pitch and can be seen on Bengal All-Access.
