MOBILE, Ala. – South Alabama baseball homered three times in an 11-7 win over Tulane Tuesday at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

Joseph Sullivan, Colson Lawrence and Robbie Petracci each homered in the game to help the Jaguars snap a three-game losing skid. Erick Orbeta went 2-for-5 with two doubles and three runs scored, JG Bell finished 3-for-6 with a double, one RBI and two runs scored, Will Turner added two hits, including a double, one RBI and two runs scored, and Sullivan went 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBIs, one run and one stolen base.

Jaguar right-hander Grant Wood (1-0) tossed 2 1/3 scoreless relief innings, and struck out three without allowing a hit to record his first win of the season. Jonah Wachter (0-1) allowed four runs on four hits with five strikeouts and two walks in 2 2/3 innings pitched for Tulane. 

How It Happened
•    (T1) JG Bell delivered a two-out RBI ground-rule double to left field that scored Erick Orbeta, who reached on a fielding error by Tulane second baseman Chase Engelard to lead off the game, 1-0 USA.
•    (T3) Will Turner reached on a hit by pitch to lead off the inning, and scored on a two-run home run to right field by Joseph Sullivan, 3-0 USA.
•    (T3) A sacrifice fly to center field by Diego Altamirano scored Bell, who singled to left field earlier in the inning, 4-0 USA.
•    (B3) Tulane scored its first run of the game on an RBI single to left field by Brady Marget, 4-1 USA.
•    (B3) Brennan Lambert delivered a two-out RBI single to left field, 4-2 USA.
•    (T4) Orbeta doubled down the left field line, and scored on an RBI single to right field by Turner, 5-2 USA.
•    (T4) Sullivan reached on an infield single on a grounder to shortstop, and Turner scored on the play when Green Wave shortstop Gavin Schulz's throw sailed high of first base, 6-2 USA.
•    (T5) Hunter Donaldson singled to right field with two outs then stole second before a walk by Orbeta. Colson Lawrence then drilled the first pitch he saw over the center field wall for a three-run home run, 9-2 USA.
•    (B5) Lambert delivered a one-out RBI double down the right field line, 9-3 USA.
•    (B5) Tulane cut its deficit to four runs on a two-run single to left field by Jackson Linn, 9-5 USA.
•    (T6) Bell led off the inning with a single to center field, and Robbie Petracci followed with a two-run home run to right field – the first hit of his Jaguar career – for a six-run advantage, 11-5 USA.
•    (B6) An RBI single to right field by Gavin Schulz cut the Jaguar lead to five runs, 11-6 USA.
•    (B7) Jared Hart delivered a two-out RBI single to left field, 11-7 USA.

Up Next
South Alabama will return to action Friday when it hosts Pepperdine at 6:30 p.m. in the South Alabama Invitational presented by Hampton by Hilton Providence Park/Airport.

Quotes
Head Coach Mark Calvi
- On the win:
"We had multiple guys with RBIs and a bunch of really good at-bats to get on base, and there were some guys with good nights who have struggled – (Robbie) Petracci for one; he's had kind of a rough start, it's very early, but he just looked more like himself in there hitting the big home run. We had some really good at-bats up and down the lineup. I thought Mitchell Heer in his first start was fantastic, and our pitchers, when you look at it – we gave up seven runs and a bunch of hits – but whenever I went to the bullpen and the game was on the line those guys closed their inning out. You don't want to use that many pitchers, but when we have some depth, if a guy does falter a little bit, you can go to another good guy down there and that's what we did tonight.

"(Zach) Willingham came in in the third inning with one of their (Tulane) guys up, and throws the breaking ball down and in for the strikeout, that was huge because there was a lot of offense tonight and some good arms thrown out there for both sides. I just thought it was whichever pitcher settled their side down was the team that was going to win. You could feel it was an offensive night, and we had some hitters in counts where we could have put them away and we didn't, but I give Tulane credit. There are a couple of guys when we get ahead of hitters 0-2 or 1-2 that we need to put them away. We had some strikeouts on the pitching side, but we also gave up some two-strike hits. We just didn't put them away when we had them in that compromised count, and that's something we need to get better at moving forward."

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