Bengals sweep season series over Baton Rouge with Sunday afternoon win
Box Score The LSU Eunice baseball team collected 15 hits Sunday afternoon en route to a 12-7 victory over Baton Rouge Community College, as the Bengals swept the teams' season series 6-0 with the win.
On Sunday, the Bengals (32-7) notched 15 hits and saw four different players finish with multiple hits, as Stefan Trosclair (2 doubles, RBI) and Derek Herrington (2 RBIs) each finished 3-for-5 at the plate.
Tyler Chapman (double, 2 RBIs) and David LaFleur each finished with two hits, as Brennan Bozeman (1-4, double) and Kyle St. Pierre (1-1) each added an RBI, while Mason Nickens (1-3) drove in three runs on the afternoon.
"It's a challenge for our offense with the wind blowing the way it was today. Our level of concentration at the plate as an offense was really good. We escaped some jams with our pitching staff and those didn't come back to hurt us too bad," head coach Jeff Willis said.
"It's tough to play somebody six games in a row, and I'm proud of our guys for being able to win all six games."
Zach Hamilton, the third of five LSU Eunice pitchers used, earned his second win of the season after a perfect sixth inning with a strikeout.
Bengal starter Hayden Marze did not factor into the decision following a four-inning outing in which he allowed two hits, seven walks and four runs.
Baton Rouge (15-31) got on the scoreboard first in the top of the second inning when drew a walk with the bases loaded as part of a four walk, zero hit frame.
LSU Eunice tied the game in the third when Herrington singled and later scored from second on Bozeman's groundout behind second base. The hosts then took the lead in the fourth on Herrington's two-out, two-run single.
Baton Rouge posted three runs in the top of the fifth inning on four walks, a hit batsmen and one hit to retake the lead before LSU Eunice tied the game in the bottom of the frame on Chapman's RBI double.
The Bengals took the lead for good with a five-run sixth inning that saw a two-run single from Nickens, an RBI sacrifice fly from Jordan Romero (0-4) and an RBI single from Chapman, who later scored as part of a double steal.
The visitors used three hits to plate a run in the top of the seventh, Nickens' brought home a run in the bottom of the seventh with his sacrifice fly and St. Pierre added to the lead in the eighth with his pinch hit, RBI single.
Baton Rouge used two Bengal errors in the ninth inning to score the final run of the afternoon.
LSU Eunice is back in action on the road Tuesday afternoon when they travel to take on Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in a doubleheader with the first game beginning at 4 p.m. and the second game to follow.
Tuesday's games are available on Bengal All-Access.
