Bengals hold Baton Rouge to three hits in Friday night series opening win
Box Score The LSU Eunice baseball team received a solid outing from freshman Ben Braymer Friday night, plating four runs in the second inning while holding visiting Baton Rouge Community College to just three total hits on the way to a 4-2 victory in the team's series opener.
Braymer earned his third win of the season for the Bengals (30-7), tossing five innings and allowing just two hits and both Baton Rouge (15-29) runs while walking six batters and tallying nine strikeouts.
"Our pitching staff made some big pitches when they needed to tonight and we made some big plays defensively as well. Any time you can limit a team to three hits and your defense plays error-free, you have a chance to win a lot of games," head coach Jeff Willis said.
Sam Walley, the fifth and final pitcher of the night for LSU Eunice, notched his national-best 10th save of the season, striking out one batter while wrapping up the ninth inning.
At the plate, LSU Eunice collected nine total hits and saw Stefan Trosclair, Jordan Romero and David LaFleur each finish with two hits, as LaFleur collected two RBIs on a double and triple. Brennan Bozeman (RBI), Madison Nickens and Gabe Roberts each added a hit.
Baton Rouge got on the scoreboard first, drawing a leadoff walk in the second inning before stealing second base and scoring moments later on an RBI single back up the middle, but the Bengals responded with four runs on four hits in the bottom of the frame to take a lead they would never surrender.
In the bottom of the second, Romero and Nickens each singled before scoring on LaFleur's two-run triple into left-center field. LaFleur himself would score pitches later as Roberts reached on a fielder's choice ground ball that caught LaFleur in a rundown before he was awarded home via defensive obstruction. Two batters later, Roberts crossed the plate on Bozeman's RBI single into center field.
The visitors once again drew a leadoff walk to open the top of the third inning, eventually stealing second base with two outs and scoring on an RBI single, but that would be as close as Baton Rouge would get.
LSU Eunice and Baton Rouge will square off on Saturday night at 6 p.m. in Baton Rouge before returning to Eunice for Sunday's series finale.
Saturday's game can be seen on Bengal All-Access.
