Late focus helps Tigers earn split
Late focus helps Tigers earn split
Advocate staff photo by MARK SALTZ
Grambling shortstop John Sharp just misses the tag on Southern?s Gerard Gause as Gause steals second base Saturday at Lee-Hines Field. The players used throw-back jerseys.
By JOSEPH SCHIEFELBEIN
Advocate sportswriter
Published: Apr 22, 2007 - Page: 2C
Grambling played like the game wasn?t over. Southern, like the Jaguars have many frustrating times this season, played like it was.
The difference in those approaches led to Grambling getting a key late-April win and to Southern continuing its soul-searching.
Grambling overcame a four-run deficit in the fifth inning and then won 9-6 with three runs in the top of the seventh to force, for the Tigers, a crucial split after Southern ace Roydrick Merritt pitched SU to a 9-1 victory in the first game Saturday at Lee-Hines Field.
Grambling (16-27, 7-13 Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division) is in a three-team race for the third and final SWAC tournament spot in the Western Division.
?(Grambling) coach (Barrett) Rey told us we had to fight,? said Grambling catcher Dars Pearson said. ?We?re trying to go to the tournament. That?s our whole thing. Every game we win is one step closer. We?re playing like it?s the tournament right now. We have to win every game.?
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