Bengals split doubleheader with visiting Delgado
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The LSU Eunice baseball team split its’ doubleheader with visiting Delgado Community College Saturday afternoon, exploding for a shortened, 10-0 win in the opener before falling 5-4 in the nightcap.
With the split, the Bengals moved to 32-5 on the season, while Delgado goes to 32-6.
The first game saw LSU Eunice notch 10 hits as a team, led by Casey Rodrigue’s 3-for-3, four stolen base game, also receiving two hits each by Stefan Trosclair and Landon Thibodeaux.
Trosclair, Garrett Deschamp (1-3), Ray Veit (1-2, BB) and Evan Powell (0-1, BB) each finished with two RBIs, while Rodrigue and Thibodaux drove home one each.
Starter Brady Domangue improved to 9-1 on the year, needing just 59 total pitches to retire Delgado over the five inning game. He allowed just three hits and added four strikeouts to his final stat line.
The Bengals brought nine men to the plate in the first inning to post five runs before scoring four more runs in the fourth inning when they sent 10 batters to the plate. They added their final run in the fifth inning.
The first inning saw the hosts connect for five singles as the first five batters all reached and scored, while the fourth inning used four hits and two Delgado errors to plate the four runs while also leaving the bases loaded to end the inning.
Trosclair, Deschamp, Thibodeaux and Veit each had RBI singles in the first inning, while Powell’s sacrifice fly tallied the final run of the inning.
In the fourth, Rodrigue and Trosclair each had RBI singles, while Thibodeaux sent an RBI double down the left field line before Delgado walked Veit and Powell back-to-back with the bases loaded to push the lead to nine.
In the fifth, the Bengals saw Rodrigue reach on a walk before stealing second and third and scoring on Deschamp’s RBI sacrifice fly to end the game.
The second game saw the two teams each tally a run in the opening inning before Delgado took the lead with two runs in the second inning. LSU Eunice cut into the lead with a run in the third only to see the visitors up the lead to two runs in the top of the fourth.
The Bengals responded with two runs in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game before seeing Delgado push across a run in the top of the seventh for the eventual game winner.
Rodrigue again lead the way at the plate, as he and Adam Angelle each collected two hits, while Deschamp, Thibodeaux and Tyler Chapman finished with one hit each.
Deschamp and Buddy McCoy (0-2, BB) each tallied an RBI in the second game.
Angelle and Chapman each stole two bases and Thibodeaux swiped one of his own in the second game.
Bengal starter Chad Reeves tossed four innings and allowed three hits and four runs, walking five and striking out three batters, while reliever Trae Hester was saddled with the loss after going 2 1/3 innings in relief and allowing the eventual winning run to score in the seventh.
After Delgado took the lead in the top of the first, the Bengals knotted the score in the bottom of the inning after Angelle singled, stole second and third base and scored on Deschamp’s groundout.
Delgado reclaimed the lead in the second with two walks, a hit and a wild pitch to score two runs before the Bengals used Chapman’s leadoff single and two stolen bases in the third to pull the Bengals to within one in the bottom of the third.
A leadoff walk in the top of the fourth inning turned into a two-run lead for the visitors before seeing LSU Eunice tie the game in the bottom of the inning when McCoy’s groundout plated Deschamp after a leadoff walk and Thibodeaux trotted home after his steal of third saw the Delgado throw sail into left field.
Delgado plated the game’s final run in the top of the seventh after the leadoff man reached on a walk, advanced around the bases with a sacrifice bunt and infield single and scored on a single into left field.
The Bengals had a chance in the bottom of the seventh, getting their leadoff man on, but grounded into a game-ending double play two batters later to end the game.
LSU Eunice and Delgado wrap up their three-game set tomorrow afternoon with a 1 p.m. first pitch. Tomorrow’s game is available on Bengal All-Access.
