RUSTON, La. â No. 14 Louisiana Tech will continue its longest road trip of the 2021 season, heading to Miami for a four-game series at FIU.
Friday-Sunday s series will mark the seventh of eight four-game conference series in 2021. All Conference USA series this season will consist of four games, one nine-inning game on Friday, two seven-inning games on Saturday and one final nine-inning game on Sunday.
Game times for the conference series at FIU Baseball Stadium are 6 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. on Sunday. Saturday s first contest of the doubleheader will begin at 1 p.m. with the second game being played around 45 minutes after the conclusion of game one.
RUSTON, La. â A strong pitching performance from right-hander Ryan Jennings and clutch hitting from seniors Hunter Wells and Parker Bates helped Louisiana Tech s baseball team split Saturday s doubleheader at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.
No. 13 LA Tech (25-8, 11-3 C-USA) knocked off Southern Miss 5-3 in the second game on Saturday, scoring two runs in the bottom of the fifth to break a 3-3 tie. The Bulldogs have now won 17 of their past 20 games and will have another opportunity on Sunday to win their fourth straight Conference USA series to open the 2021 season.
Southern Miss (22-11, 9-4 C-USA) won game one 4-3 in a back-and-forth contest at the Love Shack. USM s Reed Trible broke a 3-3 tie in the eighth inning with the Golden Eagles second homer of the first contest.
Lane Burroughs quotes
Opening statement:
âWeâre excited to be ranked and moving up in the rankings, but Iâll give you the coach line that it doesnât really mean anything until the end of the year. Itâs good to be noticed, though, for our hard work, and itâs good for the boys. Going into this weekend at Southern Miss, I thought it was very evenly matched two teams. With the four-game series, you donât know what to expect. It was our first one, and itâs a grind. You leave mentally exhausted. Iâm very proud of our guys for holding the rope. Friday night couldâve gone either way. Iâve been in that other dugout and seen them get the big hit. Tomkins came in and got two punchouts of two good hitters. We got boat raced in game one [of the doubleheader], but Cade Gibson pitched really well in game two. Sunday wasnât looking good, but our guys just held steady and didnât flinch. We feel like weâre going to make a run in e
RUSTON, La. â In No. 4 Ole Miss baseball s first true road matchup of the 2021 season, little went the Rebels way as they dropped their first midweek matchup 13-1 against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Tuesday evening.
Josh Mallitz (1-1) went four innings on the mound and gave up four hits and three runs, all of which occurred in the first inning. Offensively, the Rebels tallied six hits while stranding nine on base. Kevin Graham managed to get a third of them, going 2-for-4 at the plate with a run scored. Despite four other Rebels recording a hit, they were victimized throughout the night by Cade Gibson on the mound, who in allowed just one run on five hits over 7.1 innings pitched.
University of Arkansas junior shortstop Jalen Battles came to the plate in the top of the 10th inning Friday with his Razorbacks tied with Louisiana Tech, 7-7, at J.C. Love Field. It was a great time for a go-ahead homer.
Battles delivered that, but it was more than just your