Stephen F. Austin
9-4, 2-1
New Orleans
5-7, 1-2
Jacks Drop Game Three to New Orleans
3/1/2026 5:53:00 PM | Baseball
Privateers pull away with six-run eighth inning
SFA collected 13 hits in the loss with Julian Swift leading with a double and a home run as part of a four-hit afternoon. Jhett Creel and Juan Cantua also doubled, and Ethan Peña homered. The Jacks used ten arms in game three with Dylan Mulcahy striking out five, while allowing two runs on six hits in three innings of work.
The Jacks struck first as Cantua plated Swift on a double with two outs in the second. Cooper Schneider then plated Cantua on a single as SFA staked Mulcahy to a 2-0 lead. New Orleans responded with two runs in the third and took the lead with three runs in the fifth, while the Jacks left runners in scoring position in the fourth and fifth innings, before Peña's lead-off, first pitch solo blast in the sixth cut into the UNO lead.
Swift left the yard in the seventh scoring Ibe and pulling the Jacks to 6-5 of the New Orleans lead. The Privateers plated six runs in the eighth on three hits to take control as Peña singled to earn back a single run in the ninth.
POSTGAME NOTES
- The all-time series with the Privateers evens at 11-11
- Seventeen of the Jacks' last 23 runs have crossed with two outs
- Swift recorded his second four-hit game of the series with Creel, Peña and Cantua all collecting two hits
- It was Swift's sixth multi-hit game of the season, while Peña increased his team lead in multi-hit games to eight
- Peña and Swift each recorded their fifth multi-RBI games of the season in the series finale
- Trey Acreman improved his team-leading active reached base streak to seven games
- Mulcahy's five strikeouts moves him into the team lead for punch outs with 16 over 11.0 innings pitched this spring
- The Jacks committed three errors for only the second time this season
The Jacks head to Abilene for the front end of a home-and-home this month with ACU on Wednesday, March 4. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. Live coverage links are available at www.SFAjacks.com.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Velino, Tyler (1-0)
L: Elliott, Gage (1-1)
S: Lycette, Luke (2)
Batting:
2B: Swift, Julian 1 ; Creel, Jhett 1 ; Cantua, Juan 1
HR: Swift, Julian 1 ; Peña, Ethan 1
RBI: Schneider, Cooper 1 ; Swift, Julian 2 ; Peña, Ethan 2 ; Cantua, Juan 1
SH: Schneider, Cooper 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Ibe, Josh 1 ; Swift, Julian 2 ; Creel, Jhett 1 ; Peña, Ethan 1 ; Cantua, Juan 1
CS: Benattar, Jackson 1
HBP: Bland, Cermodrick 1
Batting:
2B: Rogers, Evan 1 ; Dominguez, Adrian 1
RBI: Smith, Owen 1 ; Rogers, Evan 2 ; Biddick, Dylan 1 ; Hepworth, Carson 1 ; Evans, Karson 2 ; Adcox, Jayden 1 ; Dominguez, Adrian 1
SH: Evans, Karson 1 ; Adcox, Jayden 1
SF: Hepworth, Carson 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Smith, Owen 2 ; Valentin, Kareh 1 ; Rogers, Evan 1 ; Biddick, Dylan 2 ; Hepworth, Carson 2 ; Evans, Karson 1 ; Adcox, Jayden 1 ; Dominguez, Adrian 1 ; Newman, Kruise 1
SB: Smith, Owen 2 ; Rogers, Evan 1 ; Hepworth, Carson 1
HBP: Biddick, Dylan 1 ; Evans, Karson 1
