LOUISIANA La. - Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team defeats Florida International by a score of 4-1 here at M.L. “Tigue” Moore Field to take the three game series two games to one. Louisiana (17-25) improves to 8-7 in conference play, while FIU (29-14) falls to 7-5 in the conference.

Louisiana received another outstanding complete game performance from a starting pitcher for the second straight game. This time it was Cajun junior left-hander Austin Faught who held the Golden Panthers to just one run on four hits to pick up the complete game victory. Faught struck out seven and walked no batters on the afternoon.

Faught set the tone early by striking out the side to open the game in the top half of the first inning.

The Cajun bats gave Faught an early lead to work with by scoring two runs in the first inning off FIU starter Arthur Santos. Dallas Morris reached first on a FIU infield error and came around to score the first run on a sacrifice fly by designated hitter Bryan Sneed. After reaching base with a single Cajun outfielder Cory Coles scored the second run of the inning on a RBI single by first baseman Phillip Hawke to make it 2-0 Cajuns.

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