Baseball pulls away from SUNO

NEW ORLEANS – Locked in a close ballgame, the Loyola Wolf Pack scored three runs in the ninth inning to pull away from SUNO, 7-3, Tuesday night. Loyola (3-1) will now turn its attention to Freed-Hardeman for a four-game set at Segentte Field starting on Friday. The two teams will play two doubleheaders starting at 1 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. 
 

Both teams scored in the opening frame, as the score read 1-1 until the sixth inning. Garrett Felix led off the game with a walk, then he moved to third on two wild pitches. Brandon Mooney finally pushed the run across on a sacrifice fly to right field, but the Knights answered with two hits in the bottom half to plate their run. 
 

The stalemate was broken five innings later when the Wolf Pack scored two runs to take a 3-1 lead in the sixth. Collin Zeringue walked with one out, and he came around to score during the next at-bat when Landon Manson doubled down the left-field line. After moving to third on a wild pitch, Manson made it a two-run lead when he came home on a bunt single by Jake Mills. SUNO, again, answered in the bottom half of the frame to make it a one-run game, 3-2. 
 

Felix got things going in the seventh inning with a single, and he later scored on a double by Cole Romero, 4-2. The Knights, though, pushed another run across in the bottom half to make it a 4-3 game heading to the eighth inning. After neither team scored in the eighth, Loyola plated three more runs in the ninth to pull away from the hosts. Zeringue walked with one out, then back-to-back errors by the SUNO infield scored the runner, 5-3, and put two men on base for the Wolf Pack. Jaxon Buratt walked to load the bases, and Drew Lee brought two of them home on a single through the left side, 7-3. 
 

Hunter Ponson earned the save after pitching the final two innings with three strikeouts. He actually entered the in the eighth with the tying run at second and no outs, as he got out of the inning unscathed before the Loyola bats gave him some breathing room. Willy Campo got the start for Loyola and worked the first 2.1 innings with a pair of strikeouts, then Grant Goodbee pitched the next 2.2 innings with two strikeouts as well to earn the win.
 

Pack Facts

• Cole Romero hit his second double of the season in the seventh inning, batting in Loyola's fourth run of the game. Romero has now had a hit in all four of the Pack's games in 2025. 

• Garrett Felix, Jake Mills, and Landon Manson each crossed home plate twice on Tuesday. 

• Felix and Manson, who each scored three runs in the second game on Saturday, have combined for 10 total runs in the last two games. 

• In his first game of the year, Hunter Ponson threw three strikeouts over the final two innings, more than he had in any game last year, to pick up his first collegiate save. 

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