The Pride’s bats were asleep for most of the night in Louisiana,\u00a0against one of the top teams in the country, Hofstra<\/strong> mustered just one run on four hits verse LSU<\/strong>. The second-ranked Tigers were able to shut the Pride\u00a0out for the eight innings, until they pushed a run across on a throwing error in the top of the ninth.<\/p>\n

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LSU went up 2-0 in the first, but\u00a0three one-hit innings from Gjon<\/strong> Ljucovic,\u00a0James Beasley, <\/strong>and\u00a0Ryan Kieran <\/strong>slowed the Tigers,\u00a0neither Beasley nor Kieran allowed a baserunner against one of the nation’s top offenses. On offense, left fielder\u00a0Teddy Cillis\u00a0<\/strong>reached base three times, on a\u00a0two-for-four day with one\u00a0walk.<\/p>\n

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Hofstra\u00a0stayed within striking distance for much of tonight’s\u00a0game, but failed to upset a great team. While\u00a0the Pride are currently winless at 0-4 each game has included some sort of moral victory, tonight three pitchers came out of the bullpen to blank the number two team in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pride’s bats were asleep for most of the night in Louisiana,\u00a0against one of the top teams in the country, Hofstra mustered just one run on four hits verse LSU. The second-ranked Tigers were able to shut the Pride\u00a0out for the eight innings, until they pushed a run across on a throwing error in the top of the ninth. LSU went up 2-0 in the first, but\u00a0three one-hit innings from Gjon Ljucovic,\u00a0James Beasley, and\u00a0Ryan Kieran slowed the Tigers,\u00a0neither Beasley nor Kieran allowed a baserunner against one of the nation’s top offenses. On offense, left fielder\u00a0Teddy Cillis\u00a0reached base three times, on a\u00a0two-for-four day with one\u00a0walk. Hofstra\u00a0stayed within striking distance for much of tonight’s\u00a0game, but failed to upset a great team. While\u00a0the Pride are currently winless at 0-4 each game has included some sort of moral victory, tonight three pitchers came out of the bullpen to blank the number two team in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":20072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,461],"tags":[504],"class_list":{"0":"post-20046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archive","8":"category-news","9":"tag-hofstra"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n