Final Stats

HAMMOND, La. - For the second time during the three-game set against Southeastern Louisiana, the Lamar baseball team was shutout, Sunday's was a 6-0 loss that gave the Lions the sweep at Pat Kennely Field in Southland Conference action.

The Cardinals (19-28, 8-16 Southland Conference) outhit the Lions (36-13, 20-4) 11-9, but it stranded 13 on base. LU has stranded 10 or more men on base in six of the last eight contests.

Despite the holding the shutout, SLU starter Kyle Cedotal was pulled after five innings. He gave up seven hits and walk two in the contest. Kyle Keller pitched three innings and gave up three hits and struck out six, and Domenick Carlini finished the game with one inning and one hit allowed.

Lamar ran through four pitchers, starting with Eric Foshee, who took the loss on 5.2 frames of work. The freshman allowed four runs (three earned) on four hits and three walks. Danny Fernandez worked two-thirds of an inning and gave up a run on two hits. Brandon Kirkham pitched two-thirds of an inning with one hit, and Derek Wade finished the game and gave up one run on two hits and a walk.

SLU jumped out to an early lead with two runs in the second inning on a wild pitch and sacrifice fly. Kennon Menard scored from third base on a wild pitch that also allowed Julian Service to get to third for Ryan Byers sacrifice fly to center field.

Lamar tried to respond in the next frame with Stijn van der Meer on second and Jake Nash on first, but Cedotal was able to get out of danger with a ground ball.

Down 2-0 in the top of the sixth, Kevin Santana's double to left field put he and Brandon Provost in scoring position, but back-to-back strikeouts bailed out the Lions. The LU offense finished with nine punchouts in the game.

Kevin Carr made it 3-0 in the bottom of the sixth, and Eades singled through the right side to score Menard to make it 4-0 after six frames.

SLU pushed the score to 5-0 in the bottom of the seventh, and again Lamar tried to push runners across, but fell short. Singles from Brandon Provost and Cutter McDowell put Cards on first and second, but back-to-back strikeouts ended the inning.

Southeastern added insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth on Jacob Sewards singled to left that scored Service.

Mason Salazar, van der Meer, Nash and Santana all finished with two base knocks, all but Santana had five at-bats (4).

Lamar hosts its final contests of the season on Friday when Stephen F. Austin pays visit to Vincent-Beck Stadium. Senior Day is scheduled for Saturday in pregame festivities before a 2 o'clock first pitch.