Southern sweeps plate for LSU How will the SWAC measure up against the SEC?

Louisiana State University baseball has found their ever so creeping niche to travel to Southern University at this time of year. With Southern trying to conquer teams in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, now they battle a top ranked SEC conference team that is sweeping its own conference game after game. After splitting a pair of losses against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Southern moves to the drawing board.
LSU (18-2) trumped their field and at their last game in the Alex Box in Baton Rouge, LA, they swept rivals, Ole Miss 18-6 to attest for roundabout base touches and sweet swings.
For Southern baseball coach Roger Cador has to suit up to face such an adversary after Sunday, March 15 showdown dropping 2-0 losses to Arkansas-Pine Bluff before picking up a 7-2 win in the last game of the night.
Southern (3-10, 2-3) went 14 bare innings without scoring a solitary point but they finally caught their thunder in the last inning of the second game. Robinson Mateo run scoring triple set apart and the Jaguars scored four runs after trailing 2-0 in the sixth inning. Southern trapped two more runs in the seventh and one in the eighth inning.
Cador was elated when Mateo scored those runs for the team and said that it really gave Southern an edge but they as a team have to get overall better at cracking the whip.
“Robinson Mateo had a big hit to knock it in the first run,” said Cador,”That’s what got us going. Jose de de Torre got an RBI single in the sequence, but we’ve got to be better at bats. Once we get better-at-bats, our confidence should go up. When that happens, we should have the makings of a decent team.”
Southern will be able to test their will at bat on Tuesday, March 17 when they square off against a team that will show them their worth on Lee-Hines Field.
Cador shows no fear in his emphasis on the team but literally just states the facts when he said, “I don’t, but you know kids, I just try and prepare them and make them sure that they know LSU is in a different league than we are. It’s going to be a tall order, but tall orders have been won many of times.”
Although the batting wasn’t up to par, Southern surpassed the mound in pitching as Santos Salividar allowed seven hits and two runs alone with nine strikeouts while going the distance in the first game, taking the first loss of 0-4.
Freshman stand-in, James Fontenot was equally capable in the second game, only allowing two runs and seven hits alike his predecessor.
Cador mentions that he needs more from batting and he said that it could be done due to the successful score of 10-4 against South Dakota State the week before.
“We’re not taking advantage of the opportunities that are in front of us, but it requires us making the sacrifice of taking quality at-bats and taking the bat at the other way, and we’re just not ready to do that on a consistent basis,” said Cador.
“If we keep the pitching we got, we could be dangerous if we hit. If we score some runs, we’ve got a chance.” finished Cador.
Southern has a heap on their plate as they are visited by LSU but with concise strategy offered by the coach, a win is by luck.