Tim Fletcher Show: LSUS Pilots Stay Alive + Evangel in Sulphur for State Baseball Tourney

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The Evangel Eagles baseball squad, will try to make it a three-peat this weekend in Sulphur for the state baseball tournament. This year marks Evangel’s fourth consecutive trip to Sulphur. Game time between the No. 1 seeded Eagles and No. 5 seed Parkview Baptist, in the semifinals, is today at 3pm.

In order for the LSUS Pilots to stay alive in the NAIA baseball tournament, they had to win two on Thursday. Al Cantwell’s crew defeated MidAmerica Nazerene, 15-10. After falling to Sterling College in their first game of the NAIA tournament, 1-0, the LSUS Pilots defeat the same Sterling College team, 12-9, Thursday night in Shawnee, OK. The Warriors had a 4-0 lead, but senior Reed Lavallee belted a three run blast in the fourth to trim the deficit. The Pilots scored four more runs in the fifth, and two in the sixth en route to the win. The Pilots play another must win game, this morning at 11 against Oklahoma Baptist University.

The LSU Tigers HAD a 6-2 advantage over South Carolina, but that lead was erased, as the Gamecocks scored four runs in the sixth and seventh innings. In the seventh, Tigers’ pitchers issued five walks, allowing South Carolina to score those four runs. Jared Poche started for LSU, he worked six innings and was charged with six runs. Offensively, for the Tiger