LSU Eunice Explodes For 23-2 Win

LSU Eunice Explodes For 23-2 Win

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The top-ranked Bengals rolled to a 23-2 win over No. 5 Kellogg Community College Sunday to conclude the four-game series.
LSU Eunice improved to 18-0 on the season as the Bengals are one game short of tying the program record 19-game win streak.
The Bengals scored a run in the bottom of the first when Will Watson singled and scored on Nick Coomes' hit to left field.
The Bruins tied the game in the top of the second as Eugene Roberts reached on a fielder's choice and later scored on a wild throw.
LSU Eunice retook a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second when Michael Claverie was hit by a pitch and scored on a throwing error.
The Bengals exploded for 10 runs in the third inning to put the game out of reach, begun when Will Watson reached on an error, stole third bases and scored on another Bruin miscue.
Coomes walked, stole second and third and then scored on a wild pitch as the Bengals moved ahead, 4-1.
Turner Francis drew a walk, advanced on a wild throw and scored when Claverie singled up the middle.
Claverie scored on Mark Fontenot's double to center to push the Bengals ahead, 6-1.
Fontenot crossed home plate when Nick Schexnaider doubled to left  and then Janson Bourque doubled in Schexnaider to give LSU Eunice an 8-1 lead.
Bourque stole third and scored on Zac LaFleur's sacrifice fly for a 9-1 margin.
Watson was hit by a pitch and Veillon walked before Coomes belted his fourth home run of the season to lift the Bengals to a 12-1 advantage.
Kellogg (0-6) scored a run in the top of the fourth when Garret Hammer doubled and scored on a ground-out as the Bruins closed the gap to 12-2.
LSU Eunice pushed across five more runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, begun when Veillon hit a two-out single and scored when Coomes doubled to right field.
Francis walked and then Bo Myers singled in Coomes before Hayden Mixon drove in Francis.
Schexnaider kept the rally going with a single to score Myers, while Bourque singled in Mixon as the Bengals moved ahead 17-2.
LSU Eunice sealed the win with six more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, sparked when Gavin Bourgeois doubled and scored when Coomes reached on an error.
Feduccia singled and scored when Myers grounded out, while Coomes crossed home as Schexnaider reached on another Bruin error.
Francis walked and scored when Travis Cliburn singled as the Bengals pushed ahead, 21-2.
LaFleur singled in Schexnaider, while Cliburn crossed home plate for the game's final run when Bourgeois singled to left.
Nathan Lee earned his first win of the season as he struck out five, walked one and allowed one earned run on six hits over four innings on the mound.
LSU Eunice rapped 18 hits, while the Bruins committed seven errors in the game.
Coomes went 3-for-4 with a walk, six RBI and four runs scored to lead the Bengal batters.
Veillon (2-for-4, BB, 2 runs scored), Bourgeois (2-for-3, run scored), Veillon (2-for-4, BB, two runs scored), Schexnaider ((2-for-4, 3 RBI, 2 runs scored) and Bourque (2-for-4, 3 RBI and a run scored) were four more Bengal batters with multiple hits in the game.
LSU Eunice opens a three-game series against Eastern Oklahoma State College at 6 p.m. Friday.
 
 
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