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STERLINGTON, La. —
Xavier University of Louisiana baseball stranded 11 baserunners
Saturday in a 5-4 loss to Our Lady of the Lake in the
Red River Athletic Conference Tournament.
The defeat eliminated
XULA from the tournament and ended its season.
The Gold Rush finished 19-25 overall and 0-2 in the tournament
as the seventh seed.
OLLU, 31-23 and seeded third,
never trailed and led 5-1 through two innings after Jacob Mitchell's
three-run home in first inning and Jacob Montejano's two-run single
in the second.
XULA
scored three times in the fifth on
Courtland Posey's RBI grounder
and
Deionte Norris' two-run single, but the Gold Rush stranded
one runner in each of the final three innings.
XULA freshman
left-hander
Joseph Semien pitched five scoreless innings in relief
of starter
Nigel Mayfield.
XULA had eight hits, three by Norris
and two apiece by
Matt Muhleisen and
Blair Frederick. Muhleisen doubled
home Frederick in the first inning.
This was XULA's second consecutive
season of baseball after no competition from 1961-2020.
