NACOGDOCHES — Sam Houston had a field day with Stephen F. Austin pitching to take the first two games of a Western Athletic Conference series at Jaycees Field on Saturday.
The Bearkats (26-18 overall, 17-6 WAC) collected the third most hits in a single game with 26 to come away with a 21-5 victory in the opener which concluded Saturday after being halted by inclement weather in the bottom of the fourth Friday. Sam Houston continued to punish the Lumberjacks in game two, notching 16 more hits in a 17-2 win in seven innings.
The final game is set for Sunday at 1 p.m.
Sam Houston 21, SFA 5
A rain delay proved costly for Stephen F. Austin's pitching staff as the Lumberjacks surrendered 26 hits in a 21-5 shellacking by Sam Houston in game one of the series.
The Bearkats led 2-0 in the top of the fourth thanks to an RBI double by
Tyler Davis and an error before the game was delayed Friday with two-outs in the bottom of the inning. The Lumberjacks ended up scoring a run when play resumed on Saturday, but then it was all Sam Houston.
Davis added a two-run single in the fifth to make it 4-1, then
Carlos Contreras ripped a three-run home run to right. Another error led to a run, and
Easton Loyd added an RBI single to make it 9-1.
Davis led off the sixth with a solo home run, and
Jake Tatom singled and later scored on a groundout by
Myles Jefferson to push the lead to 11-1.
The Bearkats put the exclamation point on the thumping with 10 runs in the ninth.
Justin Wishkoski hit a three-run home run, Tatom had an RBI single, Jefferson drove in two with a hit up the middle, Loyd ripped a two-run double and
Ryan Franden capped the score with a two-run blast to center.
Sam Houston 17, SFA 2
The second game in the series went about the same way the first did with Sam Houston knocking around Stephen F. Austin's pitching staff in a 17-2 run-rule victory.
Jake Tatom got the scoring started in the first with an RBI single before the Bearkats broke the game open with five runs in the second.
Joe Redfield launched a two-run home run to right center field, and
Carlos Contreras slapped his second home run of the day, a three-run shot to make it 6-0.
The long ball continued to doom the Lumberjacks.
