Jaguar baseball opens up South Alabama Invitational with a loss to Pepperdine. The Jags got down early in this one, and couldn’t recover. The final score was 12-5.
Pepperdine came into this game with only 17 walks as a team, this season. On Friday night the Jags walked 7 Wave batters.
Pepperdine picked up 3 runs on a home run by Ryan Johnson in the top of the first inning.
In the bottom of the 1st inning, Will Turner would hit a solo home run to right field with 2 outs. The Jaguars would trail 3-1 at the end of one.
In the top of the third, Pepperdine would get another 3 run home run, this time by Jack Basseer.
In the bottom of the inning JG Bell would hit a 2 RBI double down the right field line. Jags trailed 6-3 after 3 complete.
In the top of the fifth, Pepperdine would get one run and lead 7-3.
In the top of the sixth, Pepperdine would bust the game open. They picked up 4 more runs on 5 hits, and led 11-3.
In the bottom of the seventh, Colson Lawerence would lead off the inning homering to center field on the 0-2 pitch. The Jags trail 11-4.
In the top of the eighth, Ryan Johnson would hit his second home run of the game for Pepperdine. Jags trailed 12-4.
The Jaguars would pick up 1 more run in the bottom of the 8th, on an RBI single by Turner. Jags would trail 12-5, and that score would be the final.
Jeremy Lee would pick up the loss.His record would fall to 0-2 on the year, only going 3 innings giving up 6 earned runs on just 3 hits. South Alabama’s record falls to 5-5 on the year.
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Iowa vs Jags Saturday March 4th @ 6:30 pm
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