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Speed kills. So does quality pitching.
UL's baseball team got the former from center fielder Josh Logan and the latter from the one-two combination of Buddy Glass and Danny Farquhar, and the result was a 5-2 win over Florida Atlantic on Friday at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field in the opener of their Sun Belt Conference series.
Logan tripled and scored in the first, doubled and scored in the third and singled in the top of the eighth before scoring a tie-breaking run on Jefferies Tatford's single up the middle.
"If I get on base, those other guys are going to bring me in," Logan said. "As long as we keep doing that and stick to our game plan, we're going to be all right."
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The plan worked for UL (18-5, 5-2 Sun Belt) in the bottom of the eighth when Logan chopped a leadoff hit past starter Mike Obradovich (4-2) and through the FAU infield and Nolan Gisclair sacrificed Logan to second. Tatford then greeted reliever Joel Schmal with a shot right back through the box, scoring the speedy Long from second base to snap a 2-2 tie.
Moments later, after an intentional walk to Scott Hawkins, Devery Van De Keere doubled to the wall down the first-base line to score Tatford and Hawkins with insurance runs.
That was all that Farquhar (1-0) needed to get his first win in relief this year, as he retired three straight batters in the top of the ninth.
"It took a lot of pressure off," Farquhar said of UL's three-run inning. "It's great when the hitters have a huge inning."
Farquhar had come in relief of Glass with two outs in the eighth, after Glass had checked FAU (18-8, 2-5) on eight hits and fanned 10. Glass allowed two runs in the second inning on Mike McKenna's leadoff homer to right and an RBI single by Travis Ozga that plated Daniel Cook.
"Buddy did a great job," said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux. "He never buckled. We never could get to their pitcher, and if he ever cracks or we crack defensively, it's a different game."
Obradovich had checked the Cajuns on five hits and had retired 10 in a row before the game-breaking eighth inning. Gisclair's RBI single in the first and his RBI ground ball in the third were the only damage, and UL didn't get another runner past first base until the eighth.
"He settled in and pitched well," said FAU coach Kevin Cooney. "He's a competitor. He's had a bunch of starts like that. He'd thrown a lot of pitches, and we may have been asking too much of Schmal ... he had an appendectomy five weeks earlier and he's still coming back, but I thought he could handle the crowd and the situation."
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