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Tulane Baseball Takes Houston Series With 10-5 Win
Apr 15, 2001 | Baseball
April 15, 2001
NEW ORLEANS -
Tulane's (31-8, 10-5 C-USA) Nick Bourgeois picked up his first win of the season and held Houston (21-20, 12-3 C-USA) scoreless through 4 1/3 innings allowing the Wave to defeat the Cougars 10-5 on Sunday afternoon.
It was a tight game but the Tulane bullpen kept the Cougars in check. Bourgeois (1-1) allowed just one Cougar hit and struck out two. He was the only Tulane pitcher to have two consecutive three-up-three-down innings this weekend. He replaced starter Barth Melius who gave up five runs, four earned, on six hits through 4 2/3 innings of work.
For the third straight game Houston jumped out to an early lead, as they put up a pair of runs in the second inning. The Green Wave quickly answered with four runs in the third. Jon Kaplan hit a bases loaded double allowing two runs to score. Cougar starter Keith Whatley walked Jake Gautreau with the bases loaded sending in a third run and the fourth scored on a Steve Shirley ground out.
The Cougars tied the game at four runs each in the fourth on a Thanos Papavasilious single and a fielding error by Matt Groff. Papavaslious was 2-for-3 with three RBI.
Each team scored a run in the fifth.
A huge five-run seventh inning gave Tulane the win. Kaplan began the inning with a walk and set the stage for Gautreau's 10th home run of the season, a blazing shot over the right field wall. Groff sent in his first run of the day on a single through the right side. Michael Aubrey and Groff score on an error and a wild pitch by UH reliever Nathan Mitchell solidifying the 10-5 victory.
Kaplan, Andy Cannizaro, Aubrey and Groff each had a two-hit day. Gautreau sent in a team high three runs and hit his third home run in two games.
The losing pitcher was Nick Torina (1-2) who gave up four runs, one earned, in 2/3 of an inning.
Tulane plays a Tuesday evening game against UNO on April 17 at Zephyr field. The first pitch is 6:30 p.m.
