UL-L rolls past visiting Tulane 9-2

LAFAYETTE – Junior Joe Robbins and senior Brian Mills combined for seven RBI as the 22nd-ranked Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team defeated Tulane 9-2 Tuesday night at M.L. “Tigue” Moore Field.
Robbins went 3-for-4 in the game with a home run, four RBI and scored twice, while Mills was 2-for-3 with two doubles, three RBI, a walk and scored a run.
The win evens the season series for the Cajuns (22-11, 10-5 Sun Belt) against the Green Wave (21-11, 3-2 American). Louisiana has now won 10 of its last 12 contests including the last five games at The Tigue.
“Our hitters did an exceptional job tonight,” head coach Tony Robichaux said. “Evan (Guillory) did a good job of keeping the ball down with a strong wind blowing out and pitched well. Hopefully we can ride this momentum when we get back out on the road tomorrow.
“We dropped Joe a little bit to maybe get him going, and he got on one early in the game and was swinging hard. We won one going away this past weekend, and then we were able to do that again today. Hopefully we can do that again tomorrow.”
Guillory had another strong outing on the mound limiting Tulane to two runs on six hits in seven innings to improve to 3-3 on the year. Guillory struck out six in his fourth quality start of the year and did not allow a free pass.
Senior Eric Carter threw two scoreless innings to close out the contest in relief. Carter posted five strikeouts in the contest and has 10 in his last two outings.