High 5
Dena Matzenbacher
5
AMCC AMCC 13-25, 5-14 SLC
8
Winner McNeese MCN 28-6, 15-4 SLC
AMCC AMCC
13-25, 5-14 SLC
5
Final
8
McNeese MCN
28-6, 15-4 SLC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
AMCC AMCC 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 5 11 1
McNeese MCN 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 X 8 8 0

W: Golden, Cooper (3-2) L: Burdick, Gage (2-3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Matthew Bonnette, Senior Associate AD/Athletic Communications

Cowboys down Islanders 8-5 to open conference series

LAKE CHARLES – McNeese extended its home winning streak to nine straight games on Thursday night, using three doubles to help ignite a 8-5 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the first of a three-game Southland Conference baseball series.
 
McNeese improved to 28-6 overall and 15-4 in league play, its ninth-straight conference win, and is now 20-2 at home on the year. The win also keeps the Cowboys tied with Southeastern in the standings as the two move to within a half game of UTRGV (17-5) who the Lions defeated 5-2 on Thursday. The Islanders fell to 13-25 overall and 5-14 in conference action.
 
The series continues on Friday with a 2 p.m. start.
 
A couple of two-run doubles by the Cowboys opened up the game and resulted in six unanswered runs. Easton Dowell started it off when he broke a 2-2 tie with a two-run ground rule double to left-center to make it 4-2 in the fifth, then an inning later, Larry Edwards Jr. popped a two-run double in about the same spot give McNeese a 7-2 lead.
 
The lead grew to 8-2 in the bottom of the seventh followed a Mack Brousseau bases loaded walk. The Islander gained a run in the eighth then added two more in the ninth off a two run Jackson Smith pinch-hit home run to make it 8-5.
 
Dowell recorded three of McNeese's eight hits and Conner Westenburg added two hits and a double.
 
Starting pitcher Cooper Golden picked up the win to improve to 3-2 on the season. Golden threw five innings and allowed two runs on four hits, walked three and struck out three. Paul Coppinger was productive out of the bullpen, throwing three innings of one-run, five-hit ball with three strikeouts.
 
Notebook:
• The win gave head coach Justin Hill his 361st of his career, ranking seventh all-time in league history.
• Marcus Heusohn saw his team-leading hitting streak come to an end at eight games but he reached base four of the five plate appearances, all four on walks.
• Brousseau's second inning single extended his reached base streak to 25 consecutive games while Westenburg's reached 24, and Heusohn and Dowell 22 each.
• McNeese has now won six straight against A&M-Corpus Christi.

 
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