The University of New Orleans recent game against Mississippi Valley State University came only a day after an umpire was suspended over a controversial call in their Friday matchup. The New Orleans Privateer’s were already up 10-1 heading into the bottom of the third when the game really expanded and got out of hand entirely. They managed to add nine runs after the third and ultimately the game was called after the seventh, with a final score of 35-3 with New Orleans winning.
Five batters had three hits each and Tyler Bischke, Tristan Moore, Mitchell Sanford, Maika Niu, Nathan Blasick and Jorge Tejeda each had home runs in the game for New Orleans. New Orleans also set a program record with its runs total.
Mississippi State went through a total of five pitchers in an attempt to stop the runs from piling on. The team was only able to accumulate four hits in the evening innings.
The Privateers win comes after an umpire called their game on Friday was suspended for a bad strike call. With two outs in the ninth inning and down four runs, Delta Devils left fielder Davon Mims was at the plate with a 1-1 count.
Mims then was given a pitch low in the zone that was called a strike by the home plate umpire , Mims protested resulting in a heated incident, the pitch was clearly a ball. The Southland Conference said on Saturday that the umpire’s actions were, “deemed detrimental to the conference and in violation of Section 3 Character and Conduct of the CCA Mechanics Manual for Baseball.”
Their statement reads, “The Southland Conference is committed to promoting and enforcing the principles and standards of good sporting conduct with all conference activities involving our member institutions, including competition against non-conference opponents, The conference expects this conduct to be upheld by all game participants. As a result, the umpire has been removed from the series and has been suspended indefinitely from Southland Conference baseball games.”
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