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SUGAR LAND, TEXAS (May 26, 2017) The No. 3 Sam Houston State Bearkats punched their ticket to the championship game of the 2017 Southland Conference baseball tournament with a 7-1 win over No. 7 New Orleans at Constellation Field in Sugar Land on Saturday afternoon, May 26, 2017. The Bearkats shut out the Privateers until the eighth inning, when they were able to score their only run of the game. Sam Houston score two runs in both the second and sixth innings, and added three insurance runs to seal the game and advance to Saturday’s final.
First baseman Blake Chisolm continued his stellar performance
in the tournament, going 3-for-4 at the plate with three runs, two RBI and
raising his batting average to .370. Catcher Robie Rojas scored two runs while
adding an RBI to his season total. Riley Cooper, pitching 2.2 innings in relief,
received the win, his first of the season. New Orleans starter Hunter Medine
was credited with the loss, giving up two runs on six hit in four innings either
Houston Baptist or Central Arkansas in Saturday’s final with a scheduled 6 p.m.
start.
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