Flattened Southern takes a loss against Texas Southern

Luck hasn’t been on Southern’s side lately as they were submerged by Texas Southern in their weekend series without being able to close the games out.
Sunday, April 3 was almost their retribution day as they scuttled for only Texas Southern to win 6-5.
This increases the Jaguars losing streak by five after first being punctured by Arkansas-Pine Bluff on March 26, then visiting Southern and cataclysmically falling 2-18 on March 29, 2016 and the rest is history.
Southern (8-17, 3-8) walked into the first game of the series on Friday and crashed headfirst as the Texas Southern batters took no prisoners as they shuttled a 13-5 victory.
Then taking a subtle approach, Southern waltzed into the next game of the series on Saturday and took defense as keen as ever with only losing 2-5.
In this bout, however Southern was the first to score a run by no other than freshman outfielder, Ashanti Wheatley after stealing second base and scoring an RBI on a single by fellow outfielder, Dondrayas Harris.
This was all in the first inning but then Texas Southern rebounded with a run. Tying all the way until the top of the seventh when Texas Southern squandered three runs.
The Jaguars found no relief until the bottom of the eighth when junior infielder, Robinson Mateo scored the final run for Southern in the series before Texas Southern scores in the last inning.
In the last bout between the two, the Tigers caught Southern off guard when capturing the first run in the top of the third inning. However the third inning bore fruit for Southern as they pulled two runs out of the hats themselves.
Freshman Javeayean Williams and Mateo scored the two runs to capture the early but needed lead for Southern to capture their first victory of the series.
In the bottom of the seventh inning stretch, Southern caught the 4-3 lead that was desperately needed. Wheatley once again showed his moxie from game two when he stole second before Harris was hit by a wild pitch.
Harris and Wheatley then went on to score after a double by sophomore infielder, John Pope .
Tigers rebounded and found a way to stretch three runs for the 5-6 victory against the hungry Jaguars.
“If we only had seven innings,” said head coach Roger Cador without finishing his sentence, “Right now we are not in a position to close games out. It’s a growing pain.”
“We were just a few outs away,” said Pope, “It’s mind blowing how it keeps happening.”
In the jungle it is the survival of the fittest and unfortunately the Tigers won all three battles for victory in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
Texas Southern (13-13, 7-5) moves onward to face non-conference opponents Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, Texas on Tuesday, April 5.
Southern has to take a visit downtown as they press their bats and mitts in the Alex Box Stadium to combat in-state rivals, Louisiana State University on Tuesday as well.
If this is a testament to come, let us see what this sneaky rivalry has in store for the Jaguars as they combat Tigers once again but on their stomping ground.