Miscues prove costly for Rayne in loss to Eunice

LAFAYETTE  – The Rayne Wolves were unable to shake the error bug Friday evening in their District 4-4A contest against the Eunice Bobcats.
The Wolves committed six miscues and gave up four unearned runs in a 6-2 loss to the Bobcats in a game played at Louisiana Lafayette’s Tigue Moore Field.
“I think the layoff and not being able to be outside kind of ruined the rhythm that we had the week before,” said RHS coach Jason Bonin, whose squad had won both its league games a week earlier and then was washed out due to the weather for almost a week. “I think that layoff had a little bit to do with it and it showed today.”
The Wolves struggled offensively as well, logging just four hits on the day.
That was mainly due to Eunice hurler Christian LeJeune and third baseman Jordan Comeaux.
LeJeune, a crafty southpaw, struck out just two, but he induced 14 groundouts and three flyouts while allowing just two hits after the first inning.
Comeaux accounted for five of those groundouts, making a pair of diving snags and stealing another hit with a play on the run on a chopper down the line.
“He (Comeaux) played a good game,” said Bonin. “He was shaded a little off the line and we hit some hard balls right there. On a regular field, maybe those would have been base hits, but he made some really great plays over there.”
Wesley Hebert did most of the damage at the plate for the Bobcats. He went 2-for-2 with a single and a triple. He also drove in one run and scored three of Eunice’s six runs.
He singled in the first inning to plate the first run of the game. An error one batter later allowed Comeaux, who singled, to cross the plate and LeJeune then helped his own cause with a sacrifice fly to give the Bobcats a 3-0 advantage.
The Wolves answered in the bottom of the frame when Hunter Keely logged a two-out single to center field and scored one batter later on a double to the left center field gap by Grant Abshire.
The Bobcats added another run n the third inning when Hebert walked and then scored on a two-out error.
Hebert tripled in the fifth inning and scored on a sacrifice fly by A.P. Sonnier before Cade Richard scored the final run of the game in the sixth on yet another error.
Rayne’s only other run crossed the plate in the bottom of the fifth inning when Blase Meche doubled and scored on a groundout by Ivy Thibodeaux.