Southern dominates Selma in 3-game sweep

 
The Jaguar baseball team was able to bounce back this past weekend sweeping Selma University 13-3 in five innings and 9-2 in seven innings on Saturday and 8-3 on Sunday.
SU (10-11) came out Saturday and Sunday doing something that they have been struggling to do all season which was scoring runners in scoring position.
In game one of the Saturday double hitter the Jaguars started out earning seven runs through at the end off two and finished off the game in the fifth adding in five more runs.
In game two the game was relatively close until the bottom of the sixth when Dennis Colon, David Wright, Wilmy Marrero and Cameron McGriff all had single RBI’s bring in a total of five runs off of five hits.
In day one of the weekend series Southern hit the ball a total of 22 times and were able to bring in 22 runs.
In day two of the series the Jaguars were looking to continue their success from yesterday, in all of their eight runs six of them came from by players at bat.
In the third inning first baseman Derrick Hopkins mashed a home run out the right field wall batting in two.
“The pitcher threw the ball right down the middle, I was trying to hit the ball left field, the pitcher went up on me and I reacted and got every bit of it,” said Hopkins.
McGriff had a great weekend hitting eight out of 11 at bats and six RBI’s giving him a series average of .727.
“It was a good weekend for us because we got to try and refocus on the things we haven’t been doing well,” said head coach Roger Cador, “we did set anything on fire but we got some hits when we wanted to, we stayed with the basic fundamental of trying to play baseball we bunted when we had a man on first with no one out and we did that to try to establish that this is what we want to do.”
On Saturday Jose DeLeon (1-3) Jesse Holliday (3-1) each pitch a combine 10 innings and only allowed six hits.
On Sunday Brian “Doc” Foster (4-1) pitch seven innings and only allowed four hits and retired 13 of the 14 final at bats.
“He pitched like a doctor,” said Cador referring to Fosters performance, “he was very strategic in the way he cut up that team with his change up mixing it in staying ahead in the count I thought he was very good at that, and that’s the way he has been pitching all year to be successful.”
The Jaguars will hope to have better success hosting Nicholls State tonight at 6 p.m. at Lee-Hines Field, in their last meeting the Jaguars lost 10-3.​