There’s a little something about that fifth inning.
Eight days after scoring a school-record 15 runs in the fifth frame of a 32-4 farce against UL-Monroe, McNeese State tallied six on three extra-base hits in Wednesday’s fifth to erase a three-run deficit and cruise to a 14-5 win against the Warhawks that snapped a four-game losing streak.
Joe Provenzano hit two home runs and Matt Gallier had an opposite-field, three-run job in that fateful fifth, where the first six hitters reached base — and scored — as the Cowboys batted around. On a night of galing left-to-right wind, eight of the Cowboys’ 14 total hits went for extra bases and all three home runs went out of right field.
Mitchell Rogers had two doubles and Jacob Stracner, who was hitless in 16 of his first 17 at-bats this season, demolished an RBI triple in the fifth inning to chase Warhawks’ starter Trey Auger.
Auger yielded only Provenzano’s first home run — a second-inning, two-run moonshot — across four otherwise commendable innings of two-run, four-hit ball before handing the ball to his hapless bullpen that allowed 10 runs on eight hits.
“We knew they were coming after us, for sure,” Provenzano said. “We just got our pitches, man, and our pitchers got the big time shutdown innings after we scored and we just kept rolling.”
With a noticeable pep and edge in its dugout, UL-Monroe had 11 hits through the game’s first five innings, taking a 5-2 lead in the fifth off Tyler Wesley, who ultimately received the win despite a five-hit, three-run outing.
Then came the fifth.
“We knew today had a chance to be a battle in and of itself, with the game we had with them last week,” Cowboys coach Justin Hill said. “They came out aggressive, we knew we were going to have some built-in adversity.”
Now with an 8-5 lead after that aforementioned uprising, Grant Anderson was summoned for the sixth. So much of McNeese’s struggles in Arizona stemmed from the pitching staff’s inability to throw with a lead.
Anderson required seven pitches to retire 8-9-1 of the Warhawks’ order, keeping momentum inside the home dugout.
“The hidden story of the game,” Hill said of Anderson’s outing. “He just shut the door. That was really impressive what he did tonight.”
Added Provenzano: “We got some confidence back tonight.”
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