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HAMMOND – Jonathan Pace went 4-for-5 at the plate to extend his hitting streak to 18 games and Southeastern Louisiana got eight innings from its bullpen in an 11-5 victory over New Orleans Tuesday at Pat Kenelly Diamond at Alumni Field.
Justin Boudreaux added three hits and scored runs while
Josh Cryer went 1-for-3 with four RBI as Southeastern (14-7) won its second straight game. UNO, which was playing Southeastern for the first time since April 26, 2005, dropped its 18th straight contest and fell to 1-19 overall.
Josh Janway (1-0) pitched five innings in relief for Southeastern before
Jacob Ott,
Jason Greenleaf and
Stefan Lopez pitched the final three innings without allowing a hit. Janway allowed two hits and fanned four in earning his first victory of the year. UNO managed three base runners and failed to get a hit after Blake LeBlanc's two-out single in the fourth inning.
UNO opened the game with three straight hits and took a 1-0 lead when Nolan Church lifted a double to right field to drive in Beau Boudreaux. The Privateers added four runs in the second as they took advantage of a pair of Southeastern errors and led 5-2.
The Lions added a run in the third when Cryer's single up the middle scored
Justin Boudreaux from third cut the UNO lead to 5-3. Southeastern scored three runs in the fifth to take a 6-5 lead as a Privateer error allowed
Brock Hebert to score from third and
Jeff Harkensee and Cryer followed with RBI groundouts.
Pace, who went 4-for-5 and matched Gavin Fingleson for the third-longest hitting streak in school history, drove in Hebert with an RBI single before Cryer added a sacrifice bunt up the first base line that scored two runs and gave the Lions a 9-5 lead.
Southeastern added a pair of insurance runs in the ninth when Hebert drove in
Cody Gougler on a sacrifice fly and Pace followed with an RBI single to drive in
Joe Sparacino.
Robert Ormsbee (0-4) took the loss for UNO after allowing five earned runs on eight hits. Blake LeBlanc led the Privateers at the plate going 2-for-4 while Andrew Garcia added an RBI single in the second.
Southeastern will return to Southland Conference action on Friday when it travels to Conway, Ark., to face Central Arkansas in a three-game series. First pitch in Friday's opener is at 6 p.m. followed by a Saturday contest at 2 p.m. the series finale on Sunday at 1.
All three games can be heard in the Hammond area on KSLU-FM (90.9) and on the internet at www.LionSports.net.
New Orleans......... 140 000 000 - 5 7 3 (1-19)
Southeastern La..... 201 030 32x - 11 13 3 (14-7)
Ormsbee, Laudermill (6), Manning (7) and DesRoches. Pittari, Janway (2), Ott (7), Greenleaf (8), Lopez (9) and Fisher. W – Janway (1-0). L - Ormsbee (0-4). E – LeBlanc (3), B. Boudreaux (8), Geronimo (4), Hebert (5), Pace (8), Martin (4). DP - UNO 2. LOB - UNO 6, SLU 5. 2B – Church (4), Pace (6), J. Boudreaux (8), Harkensee (5), Gougler (8). HBP - Church, Hebert. SH – Ballero (1), Geronimo (1), Harkensee (1), Cryer (3). SF – Hebert (1), J. Boudreaux (1). SB – Hebert (13), Sparacino (1). CS – Fisher (1). T - 2:36. A – 1,352.
