Pelicans drop pair to Dolphins in Chalmette

CHALMETTE, La –  Lefthander Luke Barbier pitched a complete-game 3-hit shutout in Game 1, and Tripp Haddad’s 7th- inning sacrifice fly scored the deciding run in Game 2, as Delgado Community College took both games of a Saturday doubleheader from Nunez Community College by scores of 7-0 and 4-2 at Suarez Stadium.

GAME 1 – DELGADO 7 NUNEZ 0 (7 innings)

The Dolphins opened the scoring in the top of the first on 3 walks, a single, and fielder’s choice grounder to take a 2-0 lead, and then added another pair in the second on a single followed by Walker Bazile’s 2-run homer.

Delgado then plated single runs in each of the next 3 innings, in the third on 2 singles around a stolen base, in the fourth on a single, walk, and throwing error on a steal attempt, and then in the fifth on another single-steal-single combination.

The Pelicans managed just 5 baserunners in the game on 3 singles, a walk, and hit-by-pitch, with 4 of those being eliminated on double plays and a caught-stealing, and with just one runner in the game reaching third base.

Barbier struck out 6 in the game for Delgado, while the trio of Andre Roux, Owen Forbes, and Cole Bordes combined to strike out 8 for Nunez.

Score By innings – Sat 3/23 Game 1
Delgado – 221 110 0 – 7 11 0
Nunez – 000 000 0 – 0 3 2
Barbier and Eames. Adr Roux, Forbes (3),
Bordes (6) and Rohlfs, Veron (6).
W – Barbier. L – Adr Roux.
HR – Bazile.

GAME 2 – DELGADO 4 NUNEZ 2 (7 innings)

The Pels wasted a complete-game mound effort from freshman Eli Woodard, who struck out eight over his 7-inning stint while yielding just 4 earned runs, the first 2 of those coming on Christian Westcott’s 2-run homer in the top of the first that also scored Casey Artigues who had opened the game with a single.

Woodard then settled in nicely to pitch the next 5 innings of shutout ball and allow the Pelicans to eventually pull even in the game.

Nunez got their first run of the day in the bottom of the second on Noah Detillier’s lead-off pop-fly double, after which Evan Rohlfs sacrificed Detillier to third, who next scored on Sully Stringer’s RBI-groundout.

The Pels then tied it in the fourth with a 2-out rally that started with Stringer drawing a walk, and then running on a 3-2 pitch and scoring on Buddy Micheu’s clutch-line drive double off the left-field wall.

Fast-forward to the seventh when Delgado plated their deciding runs on a lead-off infield single, followed by pinch runner Cooper Burch’s steal of second. Burch then moved to third on a critical fielder’s-choice safe at third, and next tagged and scored on Haddad’s line-out to center. The Dolphins then managed one more in the inning on a groundout and another infield single.

Michael Hotard picked up the win in relief for Delgado, with Brady Schmidt getting the save in the seventh.

Score By innings – Sat 3/23 Game 2
Delgado – 200 000 2 – 4 7 1
Nunez – 010 100 0 – 2 4 0
Pierce, Hotard (4), Schmidt (7) and
Scott, Eames (7). Woodard and Rohlfs.
W – Hotard. L – Woodard. S – Schmidt
2B – Walker, Centanni, Detillier, Jackson,
Micheu. HR – Westcott. SF- Haddad.

NEXT UP:
Nunez and Delgado will conclude the weekend series with a single game on Sunday, March 24. First pitch from Suarez Stadium will be 1 PM. Nunez students, faculty, and staff admitted free with Nunez ID.