Final Stats

BEAUMONT, Texas - The Lamar baseball team used 11-7 and 12-0 wins on Saturday to complete the four-game sweep of Manhattan in another gusty day a Vincent-Beck Field in nonconference action.

Including both games on Saturday, the Cardinals (6-2) scored 39 runs and only allowed nine, even though winds continued to gust in to hitters throughout the two days, four games.

Eric Foshee (1-1), who pitched in the second game of the Saturday doubleheader, was lights out in his second career start, and worked six innings of shutout, one-hit baseball. He did not walk a batter and struck out two. Will Hibbs (1-0) allowed earned one run in five innings of work in the first game; he gave up four hits and four runs and struck out seven.

"I was proud of Will to start out with. I had to challenge him during the game and he answered and got better. He did a good job and we hung in and won that ballgame," said Gilligan. "You always worry in this ball park when you give up a couple of runs and are down, but today we came back and got back in the ballgame."

Manhattan (0-4) used an early error in the first inning to jump up 2-0 and then scored another couple of runs in the third frame to take a 4-0 lead.

Chris Kalousdian reached first base on a leadoff Cardinal error and stole second before Jose Carrera drew a walk to put Jaspers on first and second with no outs. Hibbs almost worked out of the jam with a punch out and groundout, but Joe McClennan punched a two-out single to right field and knocked in both base runners.

Kalousdian led off the third inning with a double to centerfield, and again Hibbs was very close to getting out of the jam with a groundout and popup, but MC timely hitting scored him and later scored Mikey Miranda who tripled after the popup.

Lamar answered in the bottom of the third inning with a lead of walk from CJ Moore followed by Justin Eckols getting pegged by a pitch from Jasper starter Joe Jacques (0-1), who pitched only four innings and gave up seven runs on eight hits and a walk.

Van der Meer rolled over a pitch and reached on a fielder's choice, which put Cardinals on first and third with one out before Reed Seeley singled through the right side to score Moore. Two batters later both van der Meer and Seeley scored on a two-out double to left field by Kyle Markum. Markum tied the game with his run on a single and error in Kevin Santana's at-bat.

Big Red poured on three more runs in the fourth inning on a three-run double from Brandon Provost. He scored Moore, who reached on a single, Eckols, fielders' choice, and van der Meer, single.

From there, Lamar would score one run every inning until the game ended. Santana scored in the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly from Mason Salazar, Eckols in the sixth inning on a double to left center from van der Meer, Brendan Satran-who pinch ran for McDowell- scored in the seventh on a single to right field from Moore and Jake Nash- who pinch ran for Provost- scored in the eighth on a single to left field from Satran.

Billy Love made his first appearance on the bump for Lamar and pitched two hitless innings and struck out three. Galen Andrews finished the game with three runs allowed in two innings on three hits and two walks.

The second game was not near as complicated, but all started with a controversial play in the fourth frame. With no score and van der Meer at third base and two out, Kyle Markum lined one down the third base line that fielder Michael Pfenninger was able to corral throw out Markum.

While the field was clearing, the umpiring crew convened and decided that the throw pulled first baseman Vin Teixeria, who was laying on the ground to catch Pfenninger's toss, off the bag.

From there the flood gates opened for a six-run inning that started with van der Meer's score on the play. Santana followed Markum with a walk, and was followed by five-straight singles from McDowell, Nash, Sullivan, Moore and van der Meer.

Markum scored again in the fifth inning to make it 7-0 on a bases-loaded walk to Tyler Sullivan, and Satran scored a run in the seventh on a double down the right field line from McDowell.

The Cardinals used five hits from Markum, Satran, Seeley, Sullivan and Joe Arechiga and two walks to Nash and van der Meer to push across four more runs in the eighth inning.

Big Red used three pitchers in the last three innings of the contest. Enrique Oquendo worked on frame and gave up a hit and had one strikeout. Joe Farley pitched an inning and struck out the side, and Derek Wade finished it off with one walk allowed.

"Foshee was still able to go, but I really wanted to get other pitchers in there. Everybody who ran out there today looked spectacular," said Gilligan.

Van der Meer led the charge with four hits in 10 tries with three runs scored and three knocked in. Markum had four runs scored and three driven in on a 3-for-10 day. Reed Seeley was 5-of-9 on the night with a run scored and driven in.

"Good weekend all the way around. We had a lot of great at-bats today," said Gilligan. "We're coming along, we're not all the way there yet, but this was a marked improvement over last weekend."

The Cardinals will be on the road for the first time in 2015 when they travel to Texas Pan-American for a three-game set that starts on Friday.