Bison Baseball Upset Bid at No. 2 LSU Falls Short, 11-9

BATON ROUGE, La. – The North Dakota State baseball team opened up a 7-1 lead before falling short at No. 2 LSU on Tuesday night at Alex Box Stadium in front of 9,892 fans.

Kyle Law set the tone for the Bison (1-10) in the opening frame with his first career RBI triple to make the score 1-0, before Davis Hamilton drove in another with an RBI single of his own to increase the lead to 2-0. Hamilton then got home after Tate Martin walked with the bases loaded to push the edge to 3-0. The Bison increased their lead with four runs in the third, including two on errors to make the score 7-1 in the third inning.

LSU (12-1), who entered the week ranked No. 2 in the USA Today Coaches Top 25 Poll, answered with four runs in the bottom half of the third frame to cut the deficit to 7-5 after Cade Arrambide connected on a two-run home run.

After the Bison scored two more runs on a passed ball and a wild pitch, the Tigers used a two-run home run off the bat of Daniel Dickinson to cut the edge to 9-7 in the fourth. LSU continued to surge pushing across two more runs in the sixth, including an RBI double from Steven Milam to lock the contest, 6-6. Following a scoreless seventh, Milam added another double down the right line in the eighth. The two-run shot sealed the 11-9 win for the Tigers.

The Bison notched six hits as a team with Tommy Simon going 2-of-4 at the plate with one RBI. Hamilton also added three runs with one hit and one RBI.

Matt Sargeant made the start tossing two strikeouts over 3.0 innings. Danny Lachenmayer (0-1) picked up the loss after totaling a team-best three strikeouts with one walk over 1.2 innings in relief. Landon Koenig also appeared for 2.2 innings with one strikeout and Skyler Riedinger finished the final frame with two strikeouts.

NDSU will continue its two-game midweek series at LSU tomorrow. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m.