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Bulldog Baseball
Louisiana Tech is set to host the Lamar Cardinals at JC Love Field at Pat Patterson Park tonight at 6 p.m. CT.
The contest can be seen on ESPN+.
The Diamond ‘Dogs (10-7) are coming off a series win over South Alabama, securing the final two games of the series after dropping Friday’s opener. Hudson Rowan and Brooks Roberson both earned the win in each of their starts over the weekend, while Riley Fisher earned his third save as a Bulldog and Thomas Allen picked up his first collegiate save.
Trey Hawsey hit homers in Saturday’s and Sunday’s games, marking the fourth time in his career to hit a homer in consecutive games. Zeb Ruddell snapped a seven-game cold spell of not recording a hit with a double and a go-ahead two-run homer in Saturday’s win.
After dropping Friday’s game by a score of 9-3, the ‘Dogs outscored the Jaguars 12-3 through the remaining 18 innings of the weekend.
Colby Lunsford still sits among the top 10 in CUSA with a .683 slugging percentage and a 1.127 OPS, along with 17 runs, 20 hits and nine doubles. Hawsey and Sebastian Mexico are also among the top 10 each with 20 base hits, while Hawsey is tied for the fifth-most homers with five.
The Cardinals (9-7) enter Tuesday’s contest coming off a series loss in Southland play to Stephen F. Austin on the road. Lamar put up a four-spot in the third inning of the series opener to take a 4-2 lead, but allowed four unanswered runs to fall 6-4. The Cardinals won Game 2 with a sizeable 11-3 victory with four runs in the seventh and seven runs in the eighth.
The rubber match of the weekend featured an 14-11 shootout, with the Lumberjacks on the winning side of that score. Lamar led 9-3 going into the eighth before giving up 11 runs in the home half.
The Bulldogs are looking to avenge their midweek loss to Lamar from 2025, falling 6-5 at the Love Shack on February 25. Prior to last season, Tech had won four of the previous five clashes with the most recent win dating back to the 2012 season by a score of 8-1.
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Bulldog Softball
Louisiana Tech softball returns home to Dr. Billy Bundrick Field for a five-game homestand, beginning tonight with a matchup against Alcorn State at 6:00 p.m. and McNeese on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.
Both games will be streamed on ESPN+.
Tuesday’s meeting will mark the 19th all-time contest between LA Tech and Alcorn and the first since March 29, 2016, when the Bulldogs defeated the Braves 12-0 in five innings in Ruston. Tech’s only loss to Alcorn came in a 3-1 defeat in 2008. The Bulldogs have won the last 11 games.
Wednesday will mark the 95th meeting between the Bulldogs and Cowgirls. LA Tech leads the all-time series 62-32 after taking down MSU 10-5 at home last season. The Bulldogs have won five straight dating back to 2022, including three wins over MSU in 2024. Tech won 32 straight games against McNeese from 1982-1990.
The Bulldogs moved to 13-10 (0-3 Conference USA) after being swept by New Mexico State in their CUSA series opener this past weekend. Tech fell 14-5 (5) on Friday, 15-14 on Saturday and 7-1 on Sunday.
LA Tech collected 25 hits in the series, 12 of which went for extra bases, including eight home runs. The Bulldogs belted six home runs in Saturday’s 14-15 loss, marking the most home runs in a single game by a Bulldog team since May 1, 2009, when Tech also hit six at NMSU. Reagan Marchant and Bradi Gallaway both had two home runs in the loss while Gracie Flores and Aleah Brooks registered their first career homers in the contest.
Marchant finished the weekend with four home runs, hitting at least one in all three games and is up to a team-best seven long balls this season. She had a grand slam and solo blast to finish with five RBI on Saturday. The second-year Bulldog now ranks sixth all-time in program history with 25 career home runs.
Alcorn State enters Tuesday’s meeting with a 9-10 record and most recently fell to Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 13-4, on Friday in its SWAC opener. Only the Friday game was played, as the rest the series was postponed due to rain.
McNeese is 19-7 this season and is coming off a Southland Conference series-opening sweep of Lamar. The Cowgirls earned key non-conference wins over Houston (14-9, 7-3), Baylor (5-4), Iowa (11-4), Missouri (5-3, 4-1), and No. 21 Ole Miss (12-11).
