Tulane grand slams knock Colonels to 1 and 3 record
Katelyn Thibodeaux
Issue date: 3/26/09 Section: Sports
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"I was very disappointed in the way our guys competed tonight," head Coach Chip Durham said. "We gave up too many free passes with walks, hit batters and errors. Without those, we may be headed to the fourth inning up 2-1 rather than down 12-2. After that it just seemed like we didn't have any fight. It just comes down to the way we competed tonight. We seemed scared against a team that we shouldn't have been scared of."
The Green Wave started off scoring in the first inning with a single to left field with a score of 1-0.
The Colonels scored two in the top of the second when junior Keith Kulbeth doubled to right field scoring red shirt freshman Blake Bergeron and senior Josh Swenson.
The Green Wave answered in the bottom of the second when Honeck hit a grand slam to right field increasing their lead to 5-2.
Starting junior pitcher Jake Parrish pitched 2.2 innings allowing ten hits, six runs and struck out two.
The Green Wave came back in the bottom of the third scoring seven runs. Four of the seven runs came from the grand slam from Shaffer. The other three runs came from two doubles from Tulane's team.
Freshman pitcher Ryan Cooper served 2.1 innings allowing one hit and two runs. Sophomore pitcher Drew Erwin came in for relief for junior Dale Dickerson who walked all four batters he faced allowing three to score increasing the Green Wave lead to 15-2. Erwin pitched two innings allowing one hit and one strike out.
Ryan Harding, closing pitcher for the game for the Colonels, served one inning allowing no hits and striking out three batters.
Unfortunately, the Colonels could not cut their thirteen-point deficit and fell to the Green wave 15-2.
The Colonels had their one and only win against the Lumberjacks of Stephen F. Austin on Sunday this past weekend after having the ten-run rule placed into effect the two prior games on Friday and Saturday.
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