MOBILE, Ala. | New Orleans used three home runs in the fifth inning and held off a late-inning rally from South Alabama, winning 6-5 at Eddie Stanky Field on Tuesday night to even the season series.
Caden Homniok, who did not factor into the decision, got his first collegiate start going 3.0 innings with a pair of strikeouts and allowed just one baserunner – via a base on balls. He was lifted for
Jacob Bruning (0-1), the second of seven pitchers on the night for the Jags, in the fourth, logging 1.2 innings and allowing five runs on six hits – including three home runs.
South Alabama (21-20) was led by
Colson Lawrence reaching base three times including a two-run home run in the fifth, while
Austin Thrasher and
JG Bell each picked up a pair of hits. Meanwhile,
Joseph Sullivan reached twice via walks on the night, while
Erick Orbeta and
Will Turner each picked up a hit and reached on a walk.
How It Happened
- (T5) Anthony Herron, Jr. hit a solo home run to lead off the inning to plate the first run of the game. They added to the lead three batters later when Issac Williams hit a two-run home run to left before Tristan Moore hit a two-run home run to right for the third home run of the inning, New Orleans 5-0.
- (B5) Lawrence hit his team-leading 11th home run of the season to score Tyler Borges from first to trim the deficit, New Orleans 5-2.
- (T6) The Privateers added another run on a throwing error with two outs in the inning, scoring Dylan Mach from second, New Orleans 6-2.
- (B8) Turner singled up the middle to score Orbeta who led off the inning with a walk, New Orleans 6-3.
- (B9) Thrasher singled through the left side to score Lawrence with one out in the inning before Bell singled to left to drive in Ryan Storey before leaving the bases loaded to end the game, New Orleans 6-5.
Up Next
South Alabama closes out an eight-game home stand with a three-game Sun Belt Conference series against Troy beginning Friday night at 6:30 pm.
Quotable, head coach Mark Calvi
Got behind early but had a chance to win late …
"It got us in the fifth, but we had some really bad at-bats through four innings. Just some bad … hollow at-bats. We didn't put a hit-and-run in play, we just didn't play good baseball through the first four and then put five on us in the fifth and woke us up. For us it was too little, too late. If we had started the game with that heightened awareness it might be a different story, but we didn't and we got beat."
Turning your attention to Troy this weekend …
"We will need to play a lot better Friday night. You can't wait until the fourth or fifth, you have to have better at-bats and be more situationally aware than we were tonight. I give New Orleans credit, they beat us, they played better than us tonight. We better play better Friday night, or we will get the same result."
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