Hot bats lead Bengals to series sweep over Baton Rouge
Box Score
The LSU Eunice baseball team scored in seven different innings, including multiple runs in four innings, for a 12-5 win over Baton Rouge Community College in their series finale on Sunday afternoon.
The Bengals (42-8) collected 12 hits as a team, led by Garrett Deschamp’s 3-for-4 afternoon with four RBIs, including his three-run homer in the sixth inning.
“I thought offensively, scoring runs in every inning except two, was a testament to some quality at-bats today. Pitching-wise, I thought we threw the ball well. Overall, I thought we played pretty well,” head coach Jeff Willis said.
Landon Thibodeaux finished with two hits and scored five times, including a home run of his own, a solo shot in the eighth for the afternoon’s final run.
Tyler Chapman also notched two hits, adding an RBI, while Adam Angelle (1-2, BB) drove home two RBIs for the Bengals, who also saw an RBI each from Stefan Trosclair (1-5), Dalton DeLeon (1-4), and Derek Herrington (1-2, BB).
Starter Zac Person improved to 7-0 on the year, tossing six innings, allowing three hits and three runs while striking out two.
Relievers Kirk Savoy (1 inning, 1 hit, 1 strikeout), Merrick Ardoin (1 inning, three hits, two runs, 1 strikeout) and Trae Hester (1 inning, 2 hits) wrapped up the final three innings for the win.
Scoreless through one inning, Baton Rouge (25-28) posted three runs in the top of the second inning to take the lead, only to see LSU Eunice answer with three runs of their own in the bottom of the second and never look back.
The Bengals added a single run in the third inning before two runs in both the fourth and fifth innings, a three spot in the sixth inning and a final run in the eighth.
The second inning saw an RBI single from DeLeon and a RBI double from Thibodeaux, while Deschamp’s double in the third inning plated another run and gave the Bengals the lead for good.
An RBI single by Trosclair and a wild pitch scored the runs in the fourth inning before Angelle’s two-run single in the fifth.
Deschamp’s three-run shot in the sixth was sent over the wall in left-center field, while Thibodeaux’s homer in the eighth was down the line and over the left field wall in the eighth.
The Bengals welcome Panola College to town for their final homestand of 2013 beginning on Friday night with a 7 p.m. first pitch.
“It will be one of the better opponents we’ve played this year. We are going to see some quality arms from those guys, and it should be a good three-game series to get us prepared for the playoffs,” Willis said.
Friday night’s game is available on Bengal All-Access.
