The Southeastern Louisiana pitching tandem of Jordan Hymel and Jason Greenleaf held Louisiana to four hits and the Lions used a four-spot in the fifth inning to pull away for a 6-2 victory over the Cajuns on Tuesday at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field.

Louisiana (23-19) was dealt a defeat by SLU (27-15) for the seventh consecutive meeting and a loss on Tuesday for only the second time this season.

Josh Cyer's two-out double with the bases loaded in the fifth inning broke open a 3-1 contest and Greenleaf tossed 3 1/3 innings of hitless relief in support of Hymel who gave up four hits over the first 5 2/3 innings.

Three of the Cajuns four hits were triples. Mike Petello tied the school record with two triples and logged his team-leading 16th multiple-hit game of the season.

Ryland Parker was the pitcher of record for the Cajuns, charged with six runs in 4 1/3 innings of action. Matt Hicks inherited three runners from Parker in the fifth inning and all of them crossed home plate on Cryer's double.

Louisiana remains at "The Tigue" for the weekend hosting UALR (16-23, 6-12 Sun Belt) for a three-game Sun Belt series. The Cajuns will be celebrating Alumni Weekend and kick off the celebration by wearing throwback jerseys in the series opener on Friday.

Parker and Hymel posted zeros over the first two innings. Hymel notched a strikeout after a two-out triple by Petello in the first inning and Parker removed a runner from scoring position in the second inning when he flipped to third base for an out on a sacrifice bunt attempt.

The Lions broke through in the third inning getting runners aboard via a Britt Gautreaux walk and an Cass Hargis infield single. Jonathan Pace singled home Gautreaux with the first run and a Justin Boudreaux sacrifice fly upped the lead to 2-0.

Petello tripled again, leading off the fourth inning with a deep fly to left field, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jordan Poirrier trimming the deficit to 2-1.

Parker retired the Lions in order in the fourth inning then began the fifth inning with a strikeout of Gautreaux. An infield single by Jacob Fisher snapped the string of consecutive batters retired and two batters later Pace came through with another RBI single upping the lead to 3-1.

Parker was relieved by Hicks after issuing a walk to Boudreaux that loaded the bases. Hicks recorded the second out of the inning by getting Jeff Harkensee to foul out. He wasn't able to retire Cryer, though, as the Lions' third baseman doubled into the left field corner clearing the base path upping the lead to 6-1.

Marvel delivered the Cajuns third triple of the night with two outs in the sixth inning scoring Poirrier (hit by pitch) with the squad's second run of the night. Greenleaf relieved Hymel and struck out pinch hitter Chris Sinclair to keep UL from adding to the lead and begin a string of retiring 10 of the 11 batters he faced.


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