MONROE, La. -- Brennan Eager picked up his fourth win of the season after tossing five innings without allowing an earned run and the Warhawks pounded 16 hits to match a season-high as the ULM baseball team (13-16) defeated Stephen F. Austin (9-20) 8-4 on Tuesday (April 1) night at Lou St. Amant Field.

Eager quickly set the tone in the top of the first inning and sat the Lumberjacks down in order, finishing the inning with two strikeouts. Jackson Landry, Bryce Blaser and Henry Garcia Jr. all collected singles in the bottom of the first inning before an inning-ending double play completed a scoreless first. SFA's Julian Swift recorded the Lumberjacks' first hit of the night on a bunt in the second inning before Eager fanned another batter and induced a popup to finish his second scoreless frame. With two outs in the bottom of the second, Jake Haggard demolished the first pitch he saw 407 feet down the left field line for his third dinger of the season to open the scoring. After Eager pitched a 1-2-3 top of the third, ULM added a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning. Isaiah Walker began the inning with a triple over the SFA center fielder's head. Landry followed with an RBI base hit to left. After Blaser singled to short and Michelle Artzberger walked, Kade Dupont lofted a sacrifice fly that plated Landry and increased ULM's lead to 3-0 after three innings.

Josh Ibe roped a single that one-hopped the left field wall with one out in the fourth inning when Blaser scooped up the ball and fired a rocket into second base to cut down Ibe trying to stretch a single into a double for the second out of a scoreless fourth inning for SFA. Walker singled and Landry walked with a pair of outs in the bottom of the inning for ULM, but ULM could not stretch the lead. After a ULM fielding error extended the top of the fifth inning, SFA's Owen Hooper got the Lumberjacks on the scoreboard with his first home run of the season with two outs and trimmed the Warhawks' lead to one. Garcia Jr. smoked his second hit of the night to start the fifth inning for the Warhawks on a double to the right-center gap. Artzberger followed with a base knock and ULM had runners on the corners with no outs. Dupont kept the line moving and singled home Garcia Jr. to push the ULM lead to 4-2. Down in the count 1-2, Zach White turned on an inside pitch and smashed the baseball down the left field line past the third baseman for an RBI double that scored Artzberger. Major Brignon capped off ULM's big inning with a single that brought home Dupont and White, extending the ULM cushion to 7-2 through five. The Lumberjacks could not put a ball in play facing Zach Shaw out of the bullpen, as Shaw fired three strikeouts in the top of the sixth. Artzberger singled for the second time of the night to put two runners on in the sixth. White came through once again with a two-out base knock that allowed Blaser to cross home plate for the Warhawks' eighth run of the night.

The Lumberjacks cut ULM's lead in half after scoring two runs in the seventh inning on a Mark Henning solo home run and an RBI groundout by Hooper. Walker racked up his third hit of the night and stole second and third base, but ULM could not push its lead. Ashton Bassett worked around a leadoff single by picking off the runner at first and pitched a scoreless eighth inning for ULM. Josh Gregoire entered the game for the Warhawks in the ninth inning and induced a game-ending double play to give ULM the midweek win.

Six Warhawks finished the night with multiple hits, led by Walker finishing with a game-high three hits. Landry, Blaser, Garcia Jr., Artzberger and White all had two hits each, and 13 of the 16 hits were generated by players who had multi-hit games. White, Dupont and Brignon tallied a pair of RBI in Tuesday night's win. Eager needed only 53 pitches to navigate through the SFA lineup and allowed three hits and struck out three without surrendering a walk. Shaw, Adam Tubbs, Justin Robinson, Bassett and Gregoire made relief appearances out of the bullpen and allowed a combined two runs in four innings of work.

The Warhawks are back at The Lou on Friday (April 4) to start a three-game Sun Belt Conference series versus App State with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.