ALEXANDRIA, LA – The Louisiana State University of Alexandria baseball team was swept by John Melvin University in a doubleheader, 9-2 and 8-7.
GAME ONE | JMU 9, LSUA 2
The Millers (2-1) pushed across three runs in each of the second, fourth, and fifth innings behind four innings of no-hit ball from Peyton Ford (2-0).
Ford has thrown 11 innings against the Generals and not allowed a hit over two series.
Michael Sutton (1-1) was charged with the loss. He allowed three run, four hits, and two walks across three innings.
A bases-loaded single in the second from Lincoln Dupre opened the scoring. Two bases-loaded hit by pitches forced two more runs across to give John Melvin a 3-0 lead.
In the fourth, they added three more. Two runs came of a triple to left center off the bat of Josh Guidroz. Two wild pitches and a passed ball in the fifth allowed three runs to score.
Cade LaBruyere doubled home
Lane Patin in the fifth, before
Trevor Dooley drove in
Blake Moss with an RBI single in the sixth. LaBruyere and Dooley had the only two hits of the game for the Generals (3-3).
GAME TWO | JMU 8, LSUA 7
In the back end of the doubleheader, the Generals rallied to tie the game in the eighth but a ninth-inning run from the Millers sealed the game.
Carter Fabre tossed six innings and allowed five runs on six hits. He struck out five.
Eli Finley (0-1) was charged with the loss.
Landon Langley,
Fischer Einkauf, and
Brett Batteford recorded two hits each. Einkauf and
Evan Rohlfs-Schadel recorded two runs batted in each. LaBruyere and Batteford combined to score four runs.
LSUA opened the scoring with an RBI ground out in the first from Einkauf. In the second, Rohlfs-Schadel drove in Batteford for a 2-0 lead.
The Millers responded with five runs in the third. They scored their first run on an infield single from Dylan Judice. Sammy Maddox drove in a pair with a double, before an RBI ground out plated a third. A sacrifice fly from Cabet Blanchard plated the final run of the inning for JMU.
In the fourth, Batteford doubled down the right field line to drive in Einkauf. Batteford then crossed the plate, cutting the deficit to 5-4.
A two-run single from Austin Hebert in the Millers' seventh made it 7-4.
The Generals scored on a throwing error in the eighth, before Langley singled home Patin. An infield single from Einkauf brought in LaBruyere to tie the game at 7-7.
Trevor Durr led off the top of the ninth with a single and advanced to third on a hit from Maddox. Durr scored on a wild pitch to give the Millers an 8-7 lead.
The Generals were set down in order in the ninth by Kolton Lejeune.
