Box Score

HAMMOND, La. – Tyler Finke delivered a two-run walk-off home run to left field in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift Southeastern Louisiana over the University of South Alabama baseball team 8-6 Tuesday at Alumni Field. 

Rhett Rosevear reached on a hit by pitch to lead off the bottom of the ninth before Finke lifted a 1-0 pitch from Jaguar left-hander Eli Copenhaver over the left field wall, which marked his second home run of the game.

UP NEXT
South Alabama (22-13) will return to action Friday when it opens a three-game Sun Belt Conference series with Georgia Southern at 6:30 p.m. at Stanky Field.

GAME FACTS
- USA loaded the bases in the top of the third when Reid Powers led off the inning with a hit by pitch, Landon Jordan singled through the right side of the infield with one out and Miles Simington drew a walk. Will Turner then reached on an RBI fielder's choice on a grounder to second to plate Powers for a 1-0 Jag lead.
- South Alabama doubled its lead at 2-0 in the top of the fourth on a two-out RBI single through the right side of the infield by Erick Orbeta.
- SLU answered in the bottom of the fourth with an RBI single to left field by Shea Thomas to cut the Jag lead in half at 2-1.
- Simington gave the Jags a 3-1 lead when he led off the top of the fifth with a solo home run to right field. Santi Montiel singled with one out, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a one-out RBI single to right field by Stokes for a 4-1 advantage.
- The Lions cut the Jaguar lead to 4-3 in the bottom of the sixth on a two-run home run to left field by Tyler Finke. An RBI double to left-center field by Thomas tied the game 4-4. SLU loaded the bases later in the inning, and took a 6-4 lead on a two-run single through the left side of the infield by Evan Keller.
- USA cut the SLU lead to 6-5 in the top of the seventh on an RBI triple off the center field wall by Simington. Turner followed with a walk before Montiel reached on an RBI fielder's choice that scored Simington to tie the score 6-6.

NOTES
- Turner extended his on-base streak to 22 games with a walk in the top of the seventh. 
- Orbeta extended his on-base streak to 18 games with a two-out RBI single in the top of the fourth. 
- Jordan extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a one-out single to center field in the top of the ninth.
- Jaguar right-handed starter Walker Johnson tossed three scoreless innings, and allowed one hit with two strikeouts and two walks without factoring in the decision.
- Jordan went 3-for-4 with one run scored, and Simington finished 2-for-4 with a triple, a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored. Stokes went 2-for-3 with a double, one RBI and one run scored, and Montiel added two hits, including a double, one RBI and one run scored.

Head Coach Mark Calvi
- On the loss:
"The middle innings of the ballgame, the fourth, fifth and sixth, we didn't hold serve and left too many men on base. Our guys worked hard. We had a couple of guys with a good night, a couple of guys hit some balls hard and a couple of guys didn't have such a good night at the plate, but that's baseball. We lost the middle-third of that ballgame. We had our opportunities, and that's all you can ask for. We just didn't cash in on them defensively and offensively, and against a good team at their home park you have to play better than we did tonight. Our guys went hard, we just didn't play the game well enough tonight.

"(Starting pitcher) Walker (Johnson) was fine. I thought (Collin) Brougham's first inning when he came out was good. He just ran into a rough patch in the fifth (inning) and they (SLU) scored some runs. He was competing and had good stuff. They got into a ball or two, and there's the crooked number. It's hard to recover from that big of a crooked number on the road."

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