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Nathan Soriano
2
Northwestern St. NSU 13-11, 5-6 SLC
12
Winner HBU HBU 8-18, 2-6 SLC
Northwestern St. NSU
13-11, 5-6 SLC
2
Final
12
HBU HBU
8-18, 2-6 SLC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Northwestern St. NSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 7 0
HBU HBU 7 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 X 12 15 0

W: Batten, Brady (1-3) L: Maddox, Jerry (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

BSB: Huskies Hammer Northwestern State, 12-2

Junior CF Chase Talbot homers, drives in five for HBU



HOUSTON - HBU jumped on Northwestern State early, scoring seven runs in the first en route to a 12-2 victory to clinch the Southland Conference series Saturday afternoon at Husky Field.

Junior centerfielder Chase Talbot went 2-for-4 with a home run and five RBIs, while junior second baseman Nathan Soriano went 3-for-3 with three RBIs for the Huskies (8-18, 2-6 SLC). Junior rightfielder Brandon Bena went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and scored three times, senior catcher Erik Voller was 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI and scored and junior third baseman Trent Franson went 2-for-4 and scored twice. The Huskies finished with 15 hits and have scored double-digit runs in each game during their three-game winning streak.

Senior righthander Brady Batten (1-3) threw six shutout innnings, allowing three hits, striking out four and walking four. Senior Daniel Endsley struck out all four batters he faced and senior Taylor Franzman struck out a pair in a scoreless ninth in relief. HBU's starting pitchers have held NSU scoreless in 13 innings of work in the series.

Austin Stegall went 2-for-3 and walked twice, while Marshall Skinner and Chaney Dodge each doubled for NSU (13-11, 5-6).

Jerry Maddox (1-2) took the loss, giving up nine runs on nine hits in 1.1 innings. David Hodo did a solid job out of the bullpen, allowing one run on four hits in 4.2 innings.

The first seven Huskies reached safely as they sent 10 batters to the plate in the seven-run first. Junior first baseman Johnny Gonzales ripped an RBI double down the rightfield line, then Bena followed with a two-run single. Soriano delivered an RBI single to center, then Talbot blasted a three-run shot down the rightfield line, his team-leading fourth of the season, to put the Huskies ahead, 7-0.

HBU added three runs in the second on an RBI double by Voller and a two-run single by Soriano to extended the advantage to 10-0.

After four scoreless innings on both sides, Skinner and Dodge doubled back-to-back to lead off the seventh to put the Demons on the board. Larson Fontenot was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to trim the Huskies lead to 10-2, but Endsley came on to get the final out, then struck out the side in the eighth.

The Huskies got the runs back in the bottom of the seventh when they loaded the bases and Talbot dropped a two-run single into rightcenter to push the lead back to 10 at 12-2.

The series concludes with a 2 p.m. first pitch Sunday at Husky Field, with the Husky Sports Network video broadcast with Russ Reneau available on HBUHuskies.com.
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