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HAMMOND – Matt Petiton tossed six innings of five-hit ball and Rob Segedin's three-run homer in the first inning propelled Tulane to a 6-0 win over No. 24 Southeastern Louisiana on Tuesday at Turchin Stadium.
Nick Boullosa went 2-for-4 and scored a run as Tulane (24-14) won its third straight game and split the season series with Southeastern (29-10). The Lions were shut out for the first time in over a year since a 9-0 setback at UT Arlington on April 5, 2009.
Petiton (2-3) fanned three batters, retired eight straight at one point and got out of a bases-loaded jam in the second. Preston Claiborne and Nick Pepitone pitched the final three innings, allowing two base runners the rest of the way.
Tulane took a 3-0 lead in the first inning as Matt Ryan drew a walk, Blake Crohan doubled down the left-field line and Segedin homered to left off Southeastern starter
Jacob Ott (0-1).
Southeastern staged its biggest threat in the second inning as
Josh Cryer and
Chris Ernest hit back-to-back singles with one out and
Alex Marse was hit by a pitch. The Green Wave got out of the inning when second baseman Quinn Pippin back-handed a grounder up the middle by
Torin Lucas that started a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.
Tulane scored a run in the fifth to take a 4-0 lead as Boullosa singled, moved to third on a single by Brandon Boudreaux and scored on Ryan's grounder to second.
Jeremy Schaffer iced the game for the Green Wave in the seventh when his two out double to left field scored Ryan and Crohan for a 6-0 lead.
Ott, a former Holy Cross product making his first career start for the Lions, pitched two innings and allowed three hits and struck out two.
Southeastern will return to Southland Conference action on Friday when it opens a three-game series at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. First pitch for Friday's opener is scheduled for 2 p.m. with Saturday's contest set for 2 and Sunday's finale at 1. All three games can be heard on the internet (courtesy of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) at www.LionSports.net.
Southeastern La..... 000 000 000 - 0 5 0 (29-10)
Tulane.............. 300 010 20x - 6 7 0 (24-14)
Ott, Schneider (3), Wax (6), Lorenz (7), Sessions (7) and Lucas. Petiton, Claiborne (7), Pepitone (9) and Schaffer. W – Petiton (2-3). L – Ott (0-1). DP - SLU 1, Tulane 1. LOB - SLU 7, Tulane 7. 2B – Crohan (10), Schaffer (2). HR – Segedin (9). HBP - Cryer, Marse. SH – Barry (3). CS – Marse (2). T - 2:23. A – 2,731.
