What You Need to Know:
• Georgia State dropped its series opener at No. 29 UL Lafayette 4-2 despite holding ULL to just two hits.
• GSU starter Wayne Wages allowed just runs on two hits with six strikeouts in a career-long seven-inning stint.
• Joey Roach and Ryan Blanton drove in the GSU runs.
Lafayette, La. -- Georgia State held No. 29 UL Lafayette to just two hits but lost 4-2 in the opening game of the Sun Belt Conference series as ULL scored two runs in the eighth inning on a bases-loaded walk and a sacrifice fly Friday at Tigue Moore Field.
GSU (12-10, 2-2 Sun Belt) starter Wayne Wages was outstanding, allowing just two runs, only one earned, on two hits with a career-high six strikeouts in seven innings. That is the longest career outing for the converted reliever.
The two runs that Wages allowed came in the first inning. With one out and one on after a GSU error, Joe Robbins hit a ball to deep center field. Both GSU outfielders signaled that ball hit the warning track and bounced over the fence, but the first base umpire ruled it a home run.
After that, Wages allowed just one other hit, a single in the fifth inning. He walked one and hit one batter.
Georgia State tied the game with two runs in the sixth. James Clements led off the inning with his second hit of the day, an opposite-field single to right, and then Joey Roach doubled over the left fielder's head to bring home Clements.
Roach moved to third on a wild pitch that was also ball four to Jarrett Hood, and then Ryan Blanton tied the game with a sacrifice fly to right field.
With the game still tied at 2-2, ULL (13-9, 4-3 Sun Belt) loaded the bases with one out off reliever Bryce Conley (4-2) on a hit batter and two walks, and then Ishmael Edwards drew a bases loaded walk to bring home the go-ahead run. The Ragin' Cajuns added an insurance run on Nick Thurman's sacrifice fly.
ULL starter Wyatt Marks allowed two runs on six hits with six strikeouts in 6.2 innings. Reliever Dylan Moore (2-1) recorded the final six outs for the win.
The series continues with a 7 p.m. ET game Saturday.
