STERLINGTON, La. – The Loyola University New Orleans baseball team rebounded from a tough go of it at the Cajun Collision with a win in its tournament finale. In all, Loyola went 1-1 on Sunday with a 7-6 loss to Campbellsville (Ky.) and an 8-5 win over Texas A&M Texarkana in two seven-inning games. 
 

No. 23 Loyola (7-5) will continue its road trip with a three-game series at No. 8 St. Thomas (Fla.) next weekend. 

Game 1: Campbellsville 7, #23 Loyola 6

The Wolf Pack lost a heartbreaker to Campbellsville to start the day, as the Tigers got a walk-off three-run home run in the final inning. 
 

In what would become a theme for the day, Anthony Fernandez belted his first career home run in the top of the second inning to tie the game at 1-1 after Campbellsville struck first in the opening frame. Loyola would then take a 3-1 lead in the fourth inning after Tyler Hopkins walked with the bases loaded and Jake Mills reached on a fielder's choice. 
 

The two teams would go back and forth in the next couple of half-innings, as the Tigers scored three in the bottom of the fourth to jump ahead 4-3 before the Pack plated three in the top of the fifth to switch the lead in their favor, 6-4. Christopher Bohrer got all three RBI in the fifth, too, off a three-run home run. Loyola held Campbellsville scoreless during its next two at-bats, but the Tigers would walk it off with the three-run home run in the seventh. 

Game 2: #23 Loyola 8, Texas A&M Texarkana 5

The second game of the day started fast for both teams, each pushing two runs across in the first inning. After the Eagles made it 2-0 in the top of the first, Bohrer, again, came up big with a double to score Brandon Mooney, then Ross Selvaggi brought in the second run with a bases-loaded walk. From there, Loyola's starter Nathon Monceaux had three straight perfect innings to keep the Texas A&M Texarkana offense at bay. 
 

In the meantime, Loyola scored six more runs to take a commanding 8-2 lead. Cole Romero made it a 3-2 lead with an RBI single in the second, and Mooney scored moments later on a balk, 4-2. Fernandez smacked his second home run of the day in the third inning to make the lead 5-2, then the freshman hit another one, this time a three-run bomb, in the fourth inning to push the advantage to 8-2. 
 

The Eagles were able to push across three more runs on Monceaux, who earned the win, but Mitchell Cope pitched the final 1.1 innings to earn the save. 
 

Pack Facts

• Loyola has now won four of the last five games against Texas A&M Texarkana. 

• All nine starters reached base against Texarkana, with eight different players recording a hit. Overall, the team totaled 11 hits. That's the third-most hits in a game this season, second-best in a 7-inning game, and the sixth different time the team has tallied double-digit hits in 2023. 

• Freshman Anthony Fernandez turned in the best offensive performance of the day, knocking three balls over the fence between Loyola's two games on Sunday. 

• Between the two games, the stat line for Fernandez: 3-for-5, 3 HR, 5 RBI, 1 BB. 

• In the last two seasons, five different Wolf Pack players have recorded at least two home runs in a single game, a group that now includes Fernandez, Aaron Davis, Luke Clement, Payton Alexander, and Allen Dennis. 

• Loyola totaled four homers in the doubleheader, as Christopher Bohrer also hit one in Game 1, scoring three runs. Bohrer was second on the team with four total RBI on Sunday. 

• Through the first 12 games of the year, Bohrer is the Wolf Pack's leader in hits (17), batting average (.447), and RBI (13). 

• Three different players, Brandon Mooney, Cole Romero, and Clement extended their on-base streaks. All three have reached at least first base in every game this season. 

• Nathan Monceaux, in his longest outing of the season (5.2 innings), became the fifth Loyola pitcher with double-digit strikeouts on the season. After striking out four Texarkana batters, he's up to 12 Ks this year. 

• Monceaux also became Loyola's first pitcher to two wins this year. 

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