BEAUMONT, Texas ? Lamar recorded its second-consecutive
come from behind victory and swept a mid-week non-conference series with a 12-7
victory over the visiting ULM baseball team Wednesday night at Vincent-Beck Stadium.
Lamar took control of the game with seven
runs in the bottom of the fourth inning after the Warhawks took a 5-1 lead in
the top of the frame. Five of the Cardinals' seven runs in the inning were
unearned after a fielding error by the Warhawks prolonged the inning.
Boomer Blanchard, Nick Wade and Casey
Auttonberry led the Warhawk offense with two hits apiece, while Blanchard and
Ben Soignier recorded a pair of RBI. Quentin Lequette led Lamar with a 5-for-5
performance ? capping a 7-for-10 series ? along with three runs scored and
three RBI in the game.
Following a scary couple of minutes in the
opening frame, the Warhawks regained their composure to take a 2-0 lead. Jon
Prevost was hit in the head by the first pitch by Spencer Cuniff. He would stay
in the game, steal his 16th base of the season and score on a two-out single by
Matt Laird. Wade followed with a double
off the wall in left field to score Matt Collins.
Luquette led off the Lamar half of the third
with a double to right-center field and came home to score on a single by
Anthony Moore to left field closing the gap to 2-1.
Auttonberry, who was making just his third
start of the season, gave ULM a 3-1 lead with a single back up the middle to
score Wade. Following a fielder's choice for the second out of the inning,
Blanchard lined a two-run single to left-center field scoring Chris Sinclair
and Perry Smith for a 5-1 Warhawk advantage.
Soignier pulled the Warhawks within two, 8-6,
in the top of the sixth reaching on an error and scoring Smith on the play who
reached on a walk.
Soignier doubled in the eighth inning to move
into a tie for second
place on the career doubles list with 57 tying him with Willie Core.
Danial McHenry (0-1) took the loss for the
Warhawks allowing eight runs ? three earned ? on eight hits over 3.2 innings of
work. He struck out a career-high six batters and walked just one in his fourth
start of the season.
The Warhawks return to Sun Belt Conference
play this weekend with a three-game series against South Alabama beginning
Friday at 7 p.m. Saturday afternoon's game will be televised live throughout
the Southeast on CSS.
