FIU vs Louisiana Lafayette Series

[MaXx]

Chris Allen has pitched one hell of a game so far, FIU is up 9-0 against the Cajuns on the road.

[MaXx]

Hadn't seen the away uni's, they look different than what I am used to FIU wearing. This is from the cajuns official site:

[MaXx]

It is now, 9-1 in the 9th inning. Chris Allen still in there. Lamar Guy has hit two home runs tonight.

[FIUFanatic]

Wow...Thank you MaXx..as I saw you had already posted this thread...What a pitching performance by Allen, regardless of what happens....Oh..Turtle just took out Allen with no outs and a runner on 1st. He brought in C. Martinez.....Here's hoping he can close the game for us without much trouble....Here we go...

[MaXx]

Yeah, Martinez is in after Allen gave up a homerun and a walk in the 9th. Time to close it out guys.

Edit: Martinez got the first hitter he faced to pop out, one out in the ninth.

[FIUFanatic]

maxx said:

Hadn't seen the away uni's, they look different than what I am used to FIU wearing. This is from the cajuns official site:

Never seen that type of unis for FIU...From the back of Guy (btw, now they wear their names on the new unis' backs) it looks like a Dodgers' uniform...

[MaXx]

Another pop out, this time to center, two outs now.

[MaXx]

The live stats on the Cajun page got stuck but I read on their message board that the score is a final, 9-1 FIU wins. Good luck tomorrow guys, get the series win.

[FIUFanatic]

FIU wins Game One against ULL 9-1, with the best pitching performance of the season so far....We need to win every series from now on.....Congrats FIU!!

[FIUVoice]

FIU falls 5-2 in the 2nd game of the series....rubber game is set for Sunday afternoon

[MaXx]

FIU wins today, Sunday to clinch the series win against the Cajuns. They won 8-4. Official article:

www.fiusports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11700&ATCLID=1424507

LAFAYETTE, La. (www.fiusports.com) – FIU clinched its first series victory in five trips to Louisiana-Lafayette, defeating the Ragin’ Cajuns 8-4 Sunday afternoon at M.L. “Tigue” Moore Field. The win put FIU’s Sun Belt Conference record at 5-4 and 11-18 overall. UL dropped to 5-7 in the conference and 11-14 overall.



Senior Eric Horstmann (2-0) was stellar in relief for the second time this season, throwing 6.2 scoreless innings for the win. Horstmann threw just 70 pitches, 48 for strikes, and gave up four hits and no runs with a strikeout and no walks. The performance rivaled his other win this season, an effort that included 8.2 innings of relief against Jacksonville on March 18.



UL freshman Michael Cook (3-2) was charged with the loss, giving up five runs on eight hits with four strikeouts and two walks in 4.2 innings of relief.



FIU had 13 hits, including seven from 2-3-4 hitters, Junior Arrojo, Jorge Castillo and Javier Sujo. Castillo, who extended his hitting streak to 24 games, finished 2-for-5 with a pair of RBI. Lammar Guy hit his third home run of the series and drove in three, while Arrojo tied career and season highs with three hits and three runs scored. Sujo went 2-for-4 with a double and drove in three runs.



The Golden Panthers started quickly with two runs in the first. Castillo followed up Corey Lozano’s leadoff single and Arrojo’s walk with a RBI single to center that put runners at the corners. Sujo hit a sacrifice fly to right field to bring in Arrojo for a 2-0 lead.



UL countered to take the lead with three runs in the bottom of the inning off FIU starter Steven Stewart. Brian Bowman hit a two-out, two-run bases-loaded single to score Josh Logan and Matt Goulas and knot the game at 2-2. Jordan Poirrier followed with a RBI single to give the Ragin’ Cajuns’ the lead.



The Golden Panthers responded with three runs, all with two outs, in the top of the second. Castillo tied the game with a single through the right side off Cook to score Steven Stropp from second base. Sujo followed with a two-run double down the left field line to score Arrojo and Castillo for a 5-3 lead.



William Long cut the lead in half in the bottom of the third with a two-out single up the middle that scored Bowman from second for UL. That prompted a call to the bullpen for Horstmann, who got out of the inning without further damage after giving up an infield hit.



Cook worked efficiently through FIU’s lineup until the sixth. Arrojo laid down a bunt single and moved to third on Sujo’s two-out hit to left. Guy fell behind on the count before hitting a three-run home run to left field to put FIU up 8-4 and end Cook’s day in favor of Gregory Harmon.



It was all the distance Horstmann and the Golden Panthers would need. The Ragin’ Cajuns threatened only once over the final six-plus innings of the game, stranding runners at second and third in the eighth.



The Golden Panthers return to action Tuesday against Florida Gulf Coast at University Park.



Notes: Corey Lozano’s leadoff single was the 211th hit of his career and the 297th total base of his career, moving him past Mike Lowell (296, 1993-95) and into ninth place on the all-time total bases list at FIU...Ryan Mollica extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a ninth-inning single...Castillo is now tied with Rusty McNealy (1980) for the fifth-longest hitting streak in school history