EUNICE, La. – LSU Eunice Baseball got up off the mat in Game 2 of the South District Series, punching back with a 19-5 win over Shelton State on Friday night at Bengal Stadium. LSUE (45-11) forces a winner-take-all series decider on Saturday at 2:00PM.
The Bengals got back to their power hitting ways, smashing four home runs in the victory.
Tyler Mitchell (Marrero, LA, John Curtis HS) kicked it off in the second inning with a two-run shot to the power alley in left.
Aidan Mouton (Rayne, LA, Notre Dame HS) and
Marshall Louque (Lutcher, LA, Lutcher HS) followed suit an inning later, each launching a two-run homer to give the Bengals a 6-0 lead.
LSU Eunice would score in six consecutive innings, adding two more in the fourth before an emphatic six-run fifth inning.
Caleb Hastings (Lutcher, LA, Lutcher HS),
Jordan Luna (Washington, LA, Opelousas Catholic HS), Aidan Mouton,
Milan Obradovich (Tuscaloosa, AL, Northridge HS) and Marshall Louque all producing run scoring at bats in the inning, helping push the lead to 14-0.
Jake Smith (Rosepine, LA, Rosepine HS) provided the exclamation point on the evening with a towering three-run home run, the fourth and final of the evening for LSUE, to push the advantage to 17-0. LSUE manufactured two more runs in the seventh while Shelton State pushed across some late runs.
Mitchell, Mouton and Louque each had three hit nights, combining for ten RBIs. Luna, Smith, and
Aarren Marshall (Allen, TX, Lovejoy HS) also collected multi-hit games, part of the Bengals' 18-hit evening.
It was business as usual for starting pitcher
Lane Fenske (New Iberia, LA, Catholic-New Iberia HS), who racked up his 15th win of the season. The freshmen held the Bucs at bay, giving up two late earned runs off eight hits and two walks. Fenske struck out seven batters, combining with reliever
Dayton Hicks (Sulphur, LA, Sulphur HS) for 10 punchouts of the Shelton State offense.
Fenske navigated nail biting moments early, inducing a line out and fly out to squad a bases loaded threat in the second. The Catholic-New Iberia HS product sat down the Bucs in order four separate times, using a pair of double plays in the process.
