BASEBALL: CARDINALS DROP 2ND GAME AT TULANE
Published 11:55 pm Wednesday, February 28, 2018
NEW ORLEANS – Three errors in Wednesday’s game at Tulane (5-3) proved costly for Lamar (3-7) as the Cardinals fell 6-2 to the Green Wave.
LU’s bats were considerably more active with six hits on Wednesday, five more than Lamar’s previous two games combined.
“I think we just went through a pretty brutal stretch of our schedule here, playing a lot of games in a short amount of time,” said head coach Will Davis. “The season isn’t even 14 days old yet and we’ve already played 10 games. With an inexperienced team I thought it was important to play a lot of games before conference, and I think our pitching is only going to get better when we can ask guys to do less. Our team is just young. We’ve played nine true freshmen, and the jump to Division I baseball is pretty big for them. But I think we’re still a good team, and all of our goals are still ahead of us.”
Ryan Erickson struck out the first two batters he faced, but the second struck out batter managed to reach safely when the strikeout turned into a wild pitch. That runner eventually came back to bite the Cardinals when he scored on a sac fly that would’ve been the third out of the inning. Two singles and a hit batter scored another run for Tulane, who led 5-1 heading into the sixth.
Two errors and two doubles scored one more for Tulane in the bottom of the inning, giving the Green Wave a 6-2 lead that they would hold the rest of the game. Tanner Driskill took the mound in the bottom of the eighth inning and impressed once again, forcing two grounders and a pop out in Lamar’s final defensive inning.
Lamar returns to action at home on Friday with the first of three games against UTRGV. The Cardinals will throw Jace Campbell against the Vaqueros’ Carter Johnson with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.