Xavier sweeps twinbill from Tougaloo

at Wesley Barrow Stadium, New Orleans
game 1: Xavier 15, Tougaloo 5
game 2: Xavier 11, Tougaloo 1
— season opener for both teams
— Xavier and Tougaloo will conclude their 3-game series with a 1 p.m. Monday game at Barrow
— both games were scheduled for seven innings but were called in the sixth inning because of the 10-run rule
— Xavier right fielder D’Aires Davis: 4-for-4 with two home runs and three RBIs in the first game . . . led off the bottom of the first inning with a home run down the left-field line on the second pitch . . . reached base safely in all five plate appearances of the opener . . . and he threw out a runner at first base (9-to-3 if you’re scoring at home)
— Xavier third baseman Deionte Norris: also 4-for-4 in the opener with a home run, a double and four RBIs . . . Norris reached base safely in all five of his first-game plate appearances
— Xavier freshman shortstop Eliam Dudamel: terrific collegiate debut with four hits, five RBIs and zero errors in the doubleheader
— Xavier homered four times in the opener . . . pinch-hitter Lawrence Steed had the other one, a two-run shot in a five-run sixth inning
— this is Xavier’s third season in its second era of baseball; the program was dormant from 1961-2020