The Maroon team triumphed 11-1 for the first time over the Grey team in the third installment of ULM’s annual Blood Series on Friday evening at Warhawk Field.

Freshman pitcher Keegan Curtis (RHP) helped lead the redshirts from the mound for 6.1 innings with only one run, three hits and four walks out of the 101 pitches thrown during his service.

In the top of the third, freshman Robbie Podorsky (IF, OF) scored the first runs of the evening on a home run.

The Grey team would tie the score at one by way of a wild pitch in the fourth inning.

Danny Springer (FB) helped the Maroon team pull ahead again in the sixth by driving in Rasch with a RBI single. Springer himself later came in to score on a single by Nathan Pugh.

During the exciting seventh inning, the Maroon team had 11 batters step up to the plate as and garnered seven runs on four hits and two Grey errors. Maroon team found itself in front 10-1.

The Maroon squad added a single run in the eighth as Tidwell drove in Clay LaBeff with a double.

Springer, a junior transfer student from Mississippi, was hoping for this game’s results.

“The first game we came out swinging good, but then we let off. The second game neither played kinda hard, but we had a team meeting last night. It got all the guys fired up and that’s what got us ready to play,” Springer said.

Head coach Bruce Peddie is encouraged by the pre-season education the series is giving the team.

“The team has come with intensity each and every day. This was a good learning lesson for them tonight,” Peddie said.

The series was tied 2-2 heading into the deciding game 5 Sunday.