DALLAS, TEXAS – Faced with a tied game for the first time all night, the ULM baseball team responded with a five-run top of the ninth inning to open the 2017 campaign with an 8-3 victory over host Dallas Baptist on Friday night. The win marked the first time a Warhawk team opened the season with a victory since the start of the 2014 season.
THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: ULM 8, Dallas Baptist 3
LOCATION: Horner Ballpark / Dallas, Texas
RECORDS: ULM (1-0, 0-0 SBC)
Dallas Baptist (0-1, 0-0 OVC)
TURNING POINT
-After Dallas Baptist used back-to-back two-out doubles to tie the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the eighth, ULM sent nine batters to the plate in the ninth and plated five runs in the frame, highlighted by a two-out bases clearing three-run double by Johnny DeLaCruz in his Warhawk debut.