The losing streak continues Southern extends to nine

This weekend did not turn in favor of the Southern men’s baseball team once again.
The weekend series against the Grambling State Tigers started off with Southern losing with a score of 7-11. The game was mainly close for the most part, however with a few extra runs by the Tigers at the ninth inning, and a couple of mistake from Jags, the boy’s baseball team started the tournament off with a lost.
Even though Southern tried to hold on in the last inning, it wasn’t enough from the early four run lead that the Tigers had.
The Baseball team experienced their next tough time in their game Saturday, April 9, 2016.
They suffered another close lose to the Tigers again by a score of 8-10.
Southern jumped out to a quick lead when they were able to score four runs in two combined innings. The Jaguars finally took an early lead when Southern took stratagems to steal second bases for the early lead.
It took the tigers until the third inning to finally put points on the board when they had two runs that touched home.
Southern went a single inning without scoring, but quickly got those points back when they scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth from two hits and an error, the score was a Jaguar lead 7-3.
After that inning, the game started to turn “south” for Southern for the simple fact that they only scored one more run for the rest of the innings. Grambling did not stop the scoring outbreak and proceeded to score seven more points.
The Jags had a total of 9 players left on base. The amount of players left on base could possibly contribute to the lost that Southern received. With the lost on Saturday southern quickly found themselves down to 0-2 in a three game series.
With high hopes to finish the series with a win, the Jags hopes did not come true as they lost the final game Sunday by a score of 11-16. The Tigers jumped out to a quick lead in the top of the first inning when they had five runs to touch home plate. With the Tiger’s steady scoring inning after inning, it took the Jags until the bottom of the fifth inning where they scored four runs. With those runs being scored by the Jags the score was 4-11. Southern had struggles with steady scoring to close the game out they only managed to score only seven more runs.
The last few runs didn’t prove to be enough as the jaguars fell to the Grambling State tigers in a three game series. The Jags are preparing to face Nicholls State Wednesday April 13 at Lee Hines Field at 6pm.