Sulphur’s Jake Brown Hits First Collegiate Home Run, LSU beats McNeese 16-0
BATON ROUGE, La. (KPLC) - Entering Tuesday night’s game in Baton Rouge, both McNeese and LSU were in need of wins. The Tigers entered having lost two in a row and six of their last seven, while McNeese had also lost two in a row and four of their last seven. Unfortunately for McNeese, Tuesday night’s game was never in question.
Jared Jones got the scoring started for LSU in the first inning, smacking a home run to left field, the first of five runs the Tigers would score in the first, and the first home run of a historic night for Jones.
Jones would end the night with three home runs, tying the LSU record for single-game home runs, and former Sulphur Golden Tor Jake Brown hit his first collegiate home run as well, a two-run shot to right field in the fifth inning that extended LSU’s lead to 11-0 over the Cowboys, as the Tigers would eventually go on to win it 16-0 in seven innings.
McNeese Box Score:
| PLAYER | AB | H | R | RBI | BB | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LF Cooper Hext | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| PH/CF Dean Bittner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DH Simon Larranaga | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1B Elliot Hebert | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2B Gage Trahan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CF Conner Westenburg | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| LF Cole Plowman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| C Parker Stroh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| C Ben David | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| RF Braden Duhon | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3B/1B Chase Keeton | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2B/3B Peyton LeJeune | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SS Easton Dowell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
LSU Box Score:
| PLAYER | AB | H | R | RBI | BB | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1B Jared Jones | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 3B Tommy White | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| PR/2B Josh Pearson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| RF Ashton Larson | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| PH/RF Jake Brown | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| LF Mac Bingham | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| PR/LF Zeb Ruddell | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| DH Hayden Travinski | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PH/DH Ethan Frey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C Brady Neal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| C Alex Milazzo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CF Paxton Kling | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2B Steven Milam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| PR/2B Ben Nippolt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| SS Ryan Kucherak | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| TOTAL | 28 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 7 |
McNeese’s loss drops them to 16-15 on the season, while LSU improves to 22-12. The Tigers will head to Knoxville for a three-game series vs. the fourth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers beginning on Friday, while McNeese returns home for a three-game series against Incarnate Word, which also begins on Friday.
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