Grambling State sweeps Jaguars

 
It was a miserable weekend for the Jaguar baseball team, getting swept by any team isn’t a good feeling for anyone, but being swept by archrival Grambling State can leave a mental stain in the mindset of the team.
Grambling (10-4 5-1 Southwestern Athletic Conference) laid a beat down on the Jaguars 13-5 in the first game Saturday, in the second game of the doubleheader, SU took the lead taking in three runs in the seventh inning but GSU tied the game in the ninth and prevailed in the 13^th inning defeating the Jaguars 4-3.
The Tigers completed the sweep Sunday with a 7-1 win.
“They’re not in a right state of mind right now because they can’t believe they been swept at home,” Jaguars head coach Roger Cador said.
In game one, Southern (8-7, 3-3 SWAC) lost the little lead they had up 2-1 before the Tigers pulled in 5 runs in the sixth inning and pulled away in the last three innings adding seven more runs.
Jesse Holliday pitched five innings, giving up seven hits and allowing five runs. Reliever Josh Powell replaced Holliday in the sixth, and allowed eight runs on eight hits.
In game two, the Jaguars were down until the bottom of the seventh when third baseman Cameron McGriff came to bat. McGriff drove in two runs on a base hit and later scored as Demario Ellis hit into a fielder’s choice to tie the game at 3-3. GSU was able to score in the top of the 13^th inning by a Brain Knuckles double to center field, scoring Elias Todman.
“They played harder than we did all day,” said SU outfielder Wilmy Marrero. “They fought, our coaches said. They caught balls that we didn’t, they hit in crucial situations that we didn’t, to sum it up they played harder and did everything that we didn’t.”
When Sunday came around one would think the Jaguars would come into Sunday’s game in the right frame of mind and play Jaguar baseball but that wasn’t the case, the Jaguars fell to the Tigers 7-1 completing the sweep.
GSU scored the games first run in, Chris Wolfe scored as Darren Farmer grounded into a double play in the top of the third.
The Jaguars answered in the bottom of the fifth when Taylor Roy singled to bring in Clint Ourso, tying the game at 1-1.
Grambling State pulled away in the seventh scoring four runs and added two more runs in the ninth.
“I try not to make too much out of it really, even though I do know there are some issues that we have to address,” Cador said after the game, “If we had swung the bats better we would have been a lot different.”
​The Jaguars will try to regroup today as they travel to face the University of Louisiana-Lafayette at 6 p.m.
​Southern will return home this weekend to face Prairie View A&M at Lee-Hines Field in another weekend series.