Baseball gives up lead in sixth inning
RESERVE, La. – The Wiley College baseball team built a three-run lead through five innings but were unable to stop a sixth-inning outburst by Dillard University in a 9-4 loss in a Gulf Coast Athletic Conference game Friday at Riverside Academy.
The Wildcats (13-13, 5-2 GCAC) drop into a tie for second with the Bleu Devils, trailing Rust College by at least a half game. The Bearcats hosted Oakwood on Friday afternoon.
The game was scoreless through the first two innings. Kai Woodard led off the third with a single. A walk and a ground ball moved him to third. He came home on a wild pitch. Wiley College added to their lead in the fourth inning with a two-out rally. Bryce Garrett singled and Luis Mares walked. Allan Mendoza singled and an error by Emmanuel Taveras brought Garrett and Mares home.
Dillard (9-25, 5-2 GCAC) got a run back in the bottom of the fourth on an error and a walk. After its leadoff batter struck out in the sixth, the Bleu Devils tied the game at three with four consecutive hits. Porter got Kwailty Williams to ground out to third with the runners on second and third staying put. Dillard scored five runs with three coming on a home run by Jayden Davis before Jalen Porter got a strikeout to end the inning.
He didn't allow a hit through the first five innings. He walked two and struck out seven. Isaac Burciaga pitched to three batters in the seventh. Chance Guidry pitched the final two innings.
None of Wiley College's players had multiple hits or an extra base hit. Woodard, Jhan Carlos Javier, Garrett and Mares each singled and scored a run. Tre Wallace recorded the only run batted in with a single in the eighth.
The series will resume at 11 a.m. Sunday with a doubleheader at Wesley Barrow Stadium in New Orleans.
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