charm, but such luck wasn’t given to Southern University’s baseball team against Grambling on March 22nd and the 23rd in their three game bout.
Even after the win 4-3 against Mid Eastern Athletic Conference team, McNeese, beforehand it became a dreary night for the Jaguars when they submitted defeat against the Tigers. Grambling avenged their two losses earlier in the season with three back-to-back wins in a row.
Southern University now lands at the bottom of the Western Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (1-6, 4-12).
At the end of the night, the third bout was 1-9, a devastating loss.
The other two games ended with 7-8 and 5-9.
To start off that night, Grambling heated up with three runs to begin their first inning. Kiser had an RBI, Bell stole home, and Minter even got a run in. Southern was out of the league for scoring early in the game.
Consequently, SU didn’t allow Grambling to score any runs until the 4th inning when Medina scored for Grambling.
SU did not get a run in until the 8th inning, sophomore In-fielder, Harley Wiltz, scored and unfortunately it would become their last point of the night.
Every inning Southern ended without success and finished the game with 8 hits. Leading was the senior outfielder BrianRowdy with two doubles. But in the field the Jags kept themselves in trouble while sacrificing the ball for a total of four errors.
“We didn’t do well. We didn’t swing the bats well at all. And when we went to the hole, we weren’t able to stop them,” Head Coach of Southern Roger Cador said, “It’ s a situation that has been occurring all year. We’re just trying to find a way to make it better.”
Cador spoke on the urgency of working with the players and enhancing the talent that is present on the team and give them the arabesque picture of success.
“We’re going to continue to work with the kids and try to paint a picture in their minds about what it’s going to take for them to enjoy success,” Cador said, “It’s the little things, we have to hit better and make sure the runners get in scoring position.”
Freshman pitcher J’Markus George (0-1) gave up four runs, three earned, on eight hits in five innings.
“We had some mental breakdowns,” Cador said, “They forced George to make a lot of pitches but he made the pitches. In addition to physical errors, we made some mental errors.”
For Southern to qualify in the SWAC, they have to take themselves out of last place in the western division and at least stoke themselves to a higher position.
Southern now travels to Lafayette as they play against the top team in the Sun Belt Conference, Louisiana-Lafayette (6-0, 23-2), as they hold a win streak of 13, at Moore Field on March 26, 2014 at 6:00p.m.
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