Feb. 27, 2004

Box Score

Lafayette, La. - The Stony Brook baseball team dropped the first game of a three-game series at Louisiana-Lafayette, 5-0, at Moore Field in Lafayette, La., on Friday night. The Ragin Cajuns' Kevin Ardoin tossed a complete game one-hitter en route to victory, retiring 27 consecutive batters after a double by Andrew Larsen to lead off the game. Stony Brook dropped to 1-3 on the season, while Louisiana-Lafayette improved to 3-2.

The Seawolves' Jon Lewis battled Ardoin pitch for pitch for the first six innings, keeping the score deadlocked at zero entering the seventh. Lewis worked out of a bases loaded no-out jam in the second, striking out Kevin Preau and inducing Dallas Morris into a 1-2-3 double play to get out of the inning unscathed. With a runner on third and two outs in the third inning, third baseman Justin Michalek kept the game scoreless as he backhanded a ball deep down the line and gunned Lafayette's Ryan Core at first for the third out.

Lafayette got on the board in the seventh inning as pinch hitter Jason Rodriguez led off the inning with a double and came around to score on a throwing error by Lewis for the first run of the game. Pinch hitter Justin Bourque's two-run triple extended the score to 3-0 in the seventh and the Ragin Cajuns tacked on two more runs in the eighth on a pair of sacrifice flys to end the scoring.

Lewis (0-1) pitched six and a third innings, allowing two earned runs on seven hits while striking out seven for the Seawolves. Ardoin (1-1) struck out 12 Stony Brook batters, tossing the first complete game one-hitter in 11 years for the Ragin Cajuns.

The two teams will take the field tomorrow at 2 p.m. central time for the second game of the series.