Sunday, March 16
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Tulane University
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Baseball Takes Series With 5-4 Sunday Victory Over Xavier
Mar 16, 2025 | Baseball
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane baseball team (15-5) won the team's fourth series of the season with a 5-4 back-and-fourth home victory over Xavier (8-13) on Sunday on Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
Tayler Montiel (1-0) earned the victory with three innings of relief in which he surrendered just one hit and one unearned run with four strikeouts. Michael Lombardi was called upon and delivered again in the ninth with his fifth save of the season. He struck out a pair of Musketeers and surrendered just one hit. Will Clements started for Tulane and threw three innings with one run allowed. Carter Benbrook followed with a pair of scoreless frames. Jacob Moore entered next in relief and surrendered two runs without being able to record an out but was bailed out of the frame by Montiel.
Tulane took the team's final lead in the seventh inning on a sacrifice bunt from Lombardi.
The loss went to Jake Hooker (0-4) as he allowed a run in 0.2 innings worked. Ben Webber started for Xavier and earned a tough luck no decision in surrendering four unearned runs in six innings.
Connor Rasmussen led the offense for Tulane with three hits. Nate Johnson had a pair of hits and run scored. Gavin Schulz, Matthias Haas and Hugh Pinkney all registered a hit. Schulz, Rasmussen, Lombardi, Pinkney and Tanner Chun all tallied a run scored.
The Musketeers scored first with a run in the opening frame on Noah Tucker's single.
Tulane took the lead with two runs in the fourth inning on a wild pitch to allow Rasmussen to score, and a fielder's choice RBI grounder from Chun to get Lombardi home.
Xavier tied the game in the sixth inning on an Issac Waschmann single. The Musketeers wrestled the lead back later in the frame on Hayden Christiansen's RBI ground out.
The back-and-forth continued in the sixth as Nate Johnson gave the Green Wave a 4-3 lead with his two-out double down the line.
The Musketeers struck for a run in the seventh on an RBI ground out by Jason Jelic to tie the score up at four all.
Lombardi gave Tulane the lead back, 5-4. in the seventh with his bunt to score Schulz from third.
Next, Tulane hosts Lamar (15-6) in a midweek on Tuesday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m. on Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
Notables
Connor Rasmussen extended his on-base streak to 18 with three hits in the game…It was Rasmussen's eighth multi-hit performance of the season…Michael Lombardi had the rare feat of driving in the game winning run and also picked up the save…Lombardi saved two of the three games of the series with 2.2 innings thrown and six strikeouts…He now has 10 career saves including five this season… He is just two saves from joining the top-10 at Tulane and tying Christian Colletti, D.J. Ponder, and Juan Ibieta with 12…Tayler Montiel tied his career-high three innings in the game (previously 3.0 vs. UNO – 2023)…He also set a new career-high with four strikeouts…He has yet to appear in any game that Tulane didn't earn the victory in this season…The win improved Tulane to 12-1 all-time against Xavier…The program is 28-15 all-time against current schools in the Big East Conference…Tulane is 15-5 on the season which is the best start since 2011 when the program began things 16-4.
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TICKETS
Tickets for the baseball season and the upcoming football campaign can be purchased by calling 504-861-WAVE (9283), logging on to TulaneTix.com or visiting the ticket office at the James W. Wilson Jr. Center.
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WE ARE NOLA BUILT
Tulane University is located in the city of New Orleans. It is a city built on tradition and resiliency. The lessons Green Wave student-athletes have learned through their connection with this university and city have BUILT doctors, lawyers, business leaders, conference champions, all-conference players, All-Americans, professional athletes, and NCAA tournament teams. The city of New Orleans has shaped us into who we are today. We are One City. We are Tulane. We are NOLA BUILT. Check out our story at NolaBuilt.com.
                                                                      ---TulaneGreenWave.com---
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Tayler Montiel (1-0) earned the victory with three innings of relief in which he surrendered just one hit and one unearned run with four strikeouts. Michael Lombardi was called upon and delivered again in the ninth with his fifth save of the season. He struck out a pair of Musketeers and surrendered just one hit. Will Clements started for Tulane and threw three innings with one run allowed. Carter Benbrook followed with a pair of scoreless frames. Jacob Moore entered next in relief and surrendered two runs without being able to record an out but was bailed out of the frame by Montiel.
Tulane took the team's final lead in the seventh inning on a sacrifice bunt from Lombardi.
The loss went to Jake Hooker (0-4) as he allowed a run in 0.2 innings worked. Ben Webber started for Xavier and earned a tough luck no decision in surrendering four unearned runs in six innings.
Connor Rasmussen led the offense for Tulane with three hits. Nate Johnson had a pair of hits and run scored. Gavin Schulz, Matthias Haas and Hugh Pinkney all registered a hit. Schulz, Rasmussen, Lombardi, Pinkney and Tanner Chun all tallied a run scored.
The Musketeers scored first with a run in the opening frame on Noah Tucker's single.
Tulane took the lead with two runs in the fourth inning on a wild pitch to allow Rasmussen to score, and a fielder's choice RBI grounder from Chun to get Lombardi home.
Xavier tied the game in the sixth inning on an Issac Waschmann single. The Musketeers wrestled the lead back later in the frame on Hayden Christiansen's RBI ground out.
The back-and-forth continued in the sixth as Nate Johnson gave the Green Wave a 4-3 lead with his two-out double down the line.
The Musketeers struck for a run in the seventh on an RBI ground out by Jason Jelic to tie the score up at four all.
Lombardi gave Tulane the lead back, 5-4. in the seventh with his bunt to score Schulz from third.
Next, Tulane hosts Lamar (15-6) in a midweek on Tuesday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m. on Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
Notables
Connor Rasmussen extended his on-base streak to 18 with three hits in the game…It was Rasmussen's eighth multi-hit performance of the season…Michael Lombardi had the rare feat of driving in the game winning run and also picked up the save…Lombardi saved two of the three games of the series with 2.2 innings thrown and six strikeouts…He now has 10 career saves including five this season… He is just two saves from joining the top-10 at Tulane and tying Christian Colletti, D.J. Ponder, and Juan Ibieta with 12…Tayler Montiel tied his career-high three innings in the game (previously 3.0 vs. UNO – 2023)…He also set a new career-high with four strikeouts…He has yet to appear in any game that Tulane didn't earn the victory in this season…The win improved Tulane to 12-1 all-time against Xavier…The program is 28-15 all-time against current schools in the Big East Conference…Tulane is 15-5 on the season which is the best start since 2011 when the program began things 16-4.
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TICKETS
Tickets for the baseball season and the upcoming football campaign can be purchased by calling 504-861-WAVE (9283), logging on to TulaneTix.com or visiting the ticket office at the James W. Wilson Jr. Center.
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WE ARE NOLA BUILT
Tulane University is located in the city of New Orleans. It is a city built on tradition and resiliency. The lessons Green Wave student-athletes have learned through their connection with this university and city have BUILT doctors, lawyers, business leaders, conference champions, all-conference players, All-Americans, professional athletes, and NCAA tournament teams. The city of New Orleans has shaped us into who we are today. We are One City. We are Tulane. We are NOLA BUILT. Check out our story at NolaBuilt.com.
                                                                      ---TulaneGreenWave.com---
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Liolios, Trent (1-0)
L: HOOKER, J. (0-4)
S: Larson, Sam (5)
Batting:
2B: MISCH, C. 2
RBI: JELIC, J. 1 ; TUCKER, N. 1 ; WACHSMANN 1 ; CHRISTIANSEN 1
SH: HAMMOND, L. 1
Base Running:
RUNS: LAMBDIN 1 ; HENDRICKSON 1 ; BURDETTE, C. 1 ; TUCKER, N. 1
CS: MISCH, C. 1
HBP: MISCH, C. 1 ; TUCKER, N. 1
Batting:
2B: Johnson, Nate 1
RBI: Larson, Sam 1 ; Chun, Tanner 1 ; Johnson, Nate 2
SH: Connor Rasmussen 1 ; Larson, Sam 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Gavin Schulz 1 ; Connor Rasmussen 1 ; Larson, Sam 1 ; Pinkney, Hugh 1 ; Chun, Tanner 1
SB: Connor Rasmussen 1 ; Haas, Matthias 1 ; Chun, Tanner 1
CS: Johnson, Nate 1
HBP: Haas, Matthias 1
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