Cajuns Split Doubleheader With Texas State

The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns and the Texas State Bobcats split a doubleheader Saturday, with the Cajuns taking game one 11-3, before Texas State won the nightcap 10-4 at Bobcat Ballpark in San Marcos Texas.

In game one, the Cajuns got eleven hits and took advantage of eight walks by Bobcat pitchers.  Louisiana scored single runs in the second and third innings to take a 2-0 lead and it stayed that way until the fifth when Stefan Trosclair hit his seventh homer of the season, a three run shot off starter Lucas Humpel (4-4) that extended the lead to 5-0.

Texas State came back against Cajuns' starter Gunner Leger (4-2) in the fifth inning on an RBI triple by Cory Geisler and a sacrifice fly by Cedric Vallieres to cut the lead to 5-2.

The Cajuns batted around in the seventh, taking advantage of four walks and a bases clearing double by Dylan Butler to break the game open, 9-2 and added two more runs in the eighth on a two run double by Joe Robbins.

Will Bacon allowed one run on three hits over the final four innings for his first save.

In the nightcap, Texas State jum3-0 after on eped on starter Evan Gullory on a run scoring single by Granger Studdard and a two run homer by Tanner Hill and led 3-0 after one inning.

But Louisiana got two runs back in the second on a sacrifice fly by Nick Thurman and a two out single by Greg Davis to get within one run, and took the lead off starter Scott Grist (3-3) on back to back homers by Kyle Clement and Dylan Butler to take a 4-3 lead.

Hill's second homer of the game tied it at four apiece in the third inning.

Grist settled down after that and did not allow a run over the next three innings and that was plenty enough time for Texas State to put the game away.  The Bobcats got a run in the fourth off reliever Chris Charpentier (2-3) on an RBI triple by Cory Geisler to give Texas State the lead for good.  And, Jared Huber's two run single stretched the lead to 7-4.  Texas state scored three runs off reliever Colton Lee, who gave up two hits and hit two batters in 0.2 innings of work to conclude the scoring.

The Cajuns (22-15, 9-7 Sun Belt) and Bobcats (18-19-1, 10-7) will play game three tomorrow at 1 pm.