Final Stats

BEAUMONT - Behind Will Hibbs and three seniors, the Lamar baseball team overcame a 5-0 deficit, avoided the sweep, and snapped an eight-game skid with a 9-8 win in 10 innings over Stephen F. Austin in the final home game of the season for the Cardinals at Vincent-Beck Stadium in Southland Conference action.

Stephen F. Austin (17-34, 11-18) jumped out to a 5-0 lead after two innings, and by the eighth inning the Cardinals (20-30, 9-18) tied it a 7-7. After neither team scored in the ninth, the Lumberjacks added one in the top of the 10th. Lamar responded with a bases-loaded single through the left side from Jake Nash to tie it, and Brandon Provost "took one for the team" to end it.

Brendan Satran, who was 2-for-3 on the day, started the bottom of the 10th with a single to the shortstop, and stole second after SFA recorded the lone out of the inning. Back-to-back walks issued to Reed Seeley-who was 2-of-4 on the day- and Stijn van der Meer loaded the bases for Lamar.

Van der Meer finished his day with his team-leading 23rd multi-hit game of the year after he notched three hits in five at-bats with a run scored and knocked in. Provost (3-of-4) and Seeley finished with multiple hit games in their final contest at Vincent-Beck Stadium.

Mason Salazar was 2-of-6 with a run scored and driven in and Kevin Santana pushed one across on his base knock. Both also played their final game at The Beck.

Will Hibbs (2-1) took the win on six inning of work in relief. He surrendered two runs on three hits and two walks. He gave up a run in the fifth on a bases loaded walk, but after the free pass he sat down 14 in a row.

Eric Foshee started the game and worked 1.2 frames with five runs allowed on five hits and a walk. The freshman gave up two runs in the first and three in the second before southpaw Travis Moore relieved him in the second.

Lamar scored three in the third inning to cut the lead to 5-3. Salazar got it started with a one-out triple to the right field wall, and scored on a sacrifice fly to right from Seeley. With two outs, van der Meer singled and Nash walked before two-straight singles from Provost and Santana drove them in.

SFA added another in the top of the fourth to make it 6-3, but Lamar cut the lead to one with a couple in the bottom of the frame. Freshman CJ Moore, who scored the eventual tying run in the eighth, started the inning after being hit by a pitch. Satran sacrificed to get him to second, and Moore took third on a wild pitch before Salazar scored him on a groundout.

Again with two outs, Seeley doubled to right center and scored on a RBI-single from van der Meer to left field.

SFA made it 7-5 in the fifth, but Lamar scored on in the sixth on a groundout RBI and RBI-single in the eighth- both RBIs belong to Reed Seeley. The sixth inning run was Satran, who reached on a double, and the eighth inning run was Moore, who reached on a walk.

Hibbs sat down the Jacks 1-2-3 in the ninth, and Cardinals loaded the bases with no outs and Cutter McDowell at the plate. McDowell rolled over to the third baseman for a 5-2-3 double play, and SFA finished off the inning without a run.

Nash finished the day with a hit in three at-bats and three walks on the day. The junior knocked in one and scored one. Seven Cardinals in the starting lineup recorded hits, and five had multi-hit days.

LU's 14 hits were the most it had since the Cards notched 15 at Baylor on April 21st.

Lamar will close out its season at Sam Houston State in a three-game series, starting on Thursday at 6:30 in Huntsville. The second game of the series is slated to start at 6:30 on Friday and the finale at 1:00 on Sunday.