Final Stats

BATON ROUGE, La. - Three doubles surged the Tigers to an early 6-0 lead in the first inning and led second-ranked LSU over the Lamar baseball team 11-1 at Alex Box Stadium Wednesday night in non-conference action.

Lamar (17-19) starter Billy Love, who battled injuries all season, walked the first batter in Jake Fraley on a 3-2 count ball in the first inning. Fraley took off for second and was beat by the throw down, but was able to take the bag when Stijn van der Meer was unable to hold on the ball to tag him.

Mark Laird singled up the middle, which scored Fraley, just before Alex Bregman drew a full-count walk to put Tigers (32-6) on first and second bases. Conner Hale doubled to right center to score one, and Kade Scivicque doubled to right to push it out to a 4-0 margin.

Will Hibbs took over and Andrew Stevenson laid down a sacrifice bunt but perfectly placed it and reached first. He stole second to put runners on second and third before Chris Chinea doubled to left center for two more RBI.

Hibbs ended the inning with two ground outs and a strikeout. He struck out the side in the second inning, but allowed Bregman to hit his eighth homerun of the year. Chinea dropped a two-run home run, scored Stevenson, into the left field bleachers to push the advantage to 9-0 in the third.

Brendan Satran put Lamar on the board in the fifth inning on a solo dinger to left field on a full count. Justin Eckols followed that with a single, but an unfortunate liner right at the first baseman from van der Meer forced the Cardinals into an inning-ending double play.

LU's final run came in the ninth when Brandon Provost scored from second on a fielding error from LSU's right fielder. Provost pinch ran for pinch hitter Cutter McDowell, who doubled to right field with two outs.

The Cardinals threatened in the fourth inning after Kevin Santana lined a one-out double to left field, but back-to-back groundouts ended the inning. In the sixth, CJ Moore singled to left field and Santana followed him with a one-bagger, but a double played killed the rally.

Lamar hit into three double plays in the game.

Love (0-1) never recorded an out, and all but one of the six scores in the first were his responsibility. He gave up three hits and walked two. Hibbs pitched two innings and surrendered two runs on three hits and punched out four.

Including Love and Hibbs, the Cardinals ran out 12 pitchers. Danny Fernandez worked two-thirds of an inning, Brandon Kirkham 1.1 frames and Eric Foshee an inning. Kirkham and Foshee both finished without a hit allowed.

Ryan Cawthon worked two-thirds of an inning before he was relieved by Joe Farley who completed the inning. Galen Andrews took over in the seventh and almost tight roped out of a run, but a wild pitch got him. He gave a leadoff walk to Greg Diechmann followed by a double from Stevenson for runners on first and third. He struck out Bryce Jordan and Danny Zardon popped up on the infield, but Diechmann scored on a wild pitch.

Kyle Leggett, Travis Moore, Brett Brown and Enrique Oquendo combined for an inning with a run surrendered on two hits and a walk.

LSU's starter Kyle Bouman (1-1) worked five innings and allowed the homer to Satran. He gave up only five hits and did not walk a batter.

Satran and Eckols, the eight and nine-hole hitters, combined to go 3-of-6 with one run batted in and one scored. Santana finished his night with two hits in four at-bats .

The Cardinals return to Southland Conference play on Friday at 6 o'clock with Houston Baptist at Vincent-Beck Stadium. Game two of the three-game set is at 2:00 Saturday and the finale is at 1 o'clock on Sunday.

LU only has two midweek games left in the 2015 regular season, next at Baylor on Tuesday.