EUNICE, La. – LSU Eunice baseball dug itself out of a four-run hole midway through its game Saturday against Paris JC to score a 14-6 win on Saturday.  The Bengals (5-0) secured their 30th straight weekend series win against the same opponent, dating back to the 2017 season.
 
The Bengals found themselves in a 6-2 hole after Paris JC capitalized on a shaky third inning from LSUE.  The Dragons plated four runs on four hits and three walks.
 
LSUE would not answer back until the sixth inning when the Bengals brought home six runs with two outs.  The Bengals used back-to-back walks for Jack Merrifield (Prairieville, LA, Dutchtown HS) to finally get the offense going with a RBI single.  After Hunter Tabb (Scott, LA, Acadiana HS) brought home a run off one of six PJC errors, Jarrett McDonald (Sterlington, LA, Sterlington HS) sliced the deficit to 6-5 with a two-run double.  The Bengals would take the lead for good after a wild pitch, throwing error and Brady Hebert's (Baton Rouge, LA, Catholic-Baton Rouge HS) bunt single pushed LSUE ahead 8-6.

 

The Bengals would plate four more runs an inning later, using two more Dragon errors.  Tabb, Peyton LeJeune (Church Point, LA, Teurlings Catholic) and Reed Babin (St. Amant, LA, St. Amant HS) all drove in runs in the inning.
 
Following a seventh inning LeJeune sacrifice ground out, River Town (Zachary, LA, Zachary HS) capped off the scoring with a RBI single to bring home Javier Vaz (Huntsville, AL, Huntsville HS).
 
Jacob Hammond (Monroe, LA, Ouachita HS) grabbed his first win of the year after 3.1 scoreless innings in relief of starter Drew Lasseigne (Greenwell Springs, LA, Central HS).  Hammond scattered four hits and four walks, while striking out four batters. 

Austin Andrishok (Baton Rouge, LA, Catholic-Baton Rouge HS) and Dawson Alexander (Lake Charles, LA, Barbe HS) held the scoreless relief intact, combining to give up just one hit and on walk.

 
The two teams traded runs in the first two innings with Merrifield and Babin both driving in runs for LSUE.
 
The Bengals were led offensively by multi-hit games from Town, Merrifield, Tabb, Stevens and Hebert.
 
LSUE will go for the sweep tomorrow at 1:00PM at Bengal Stadium.  The game will be live streamed on Bengals All-Access.