HAMMOND, La. – An advantageous offense supported by a dominant pitching performance fueled Jacksonville a shutout 8-0 win at Southeastern Louisiana on Sunday.
 
The Dolphins (2-6) scored a season-high in runs on a season-best 10 hits to get one of three over the weekend series at Pat Kenelly Diamond at Alumni Field.
 
For the third straight game in the series and fourth in a row overall, the Jacksonville offense got on the scoreboard first. Christian Coipel led off the second inning with a solo home run to right. Cory Heffron followed that up with a walk and two batters later Elias Flowers was hit by a pitch. With two outs, Dakota Julylia walked to load the bases and Ruben Someillan ripped a single to center to score two and push the JU lead to 3-0.
 
The Dolphins added three more in the fourth. Jacob Southern skied a flyball to shallow center that fell and Southern, hustling out of the box, turned it into a leadoff double. Julylia drew another two-out walk, setting up Someillan, and the senior delivered again. On the seventh pitch of the at-bat, he drove a ball the other way off the wall in left, driving in both runners and ending up at third with a triple. Scott Dubrule laced a single to center to make it 6-0.
 
The pitching did its part, led by starter Austin Temple (1-1), who worked himself out of a two-on, no-out jam in the first by picking off the runner at second and getting two popups to end the threat. Two runners reached via singles in the second as well, before Temple buckled down and struck out two straight to end the inning and keep the Lions off the board again. After that, he was unhittable, finishing with six innings of two hit ball, not allowing a run and striking out a career-best tying seven for the second week in a row. He retired the last 14 batters he faced.
 
In the seventh, JU tacked on some insurance. Coipel was hit by a pitch and went to second when Heffron walked. He advanced to third on a deep flyout to right by Southern and scored when Flowers ripped a single into right to make it 7-0.
 
The Dolphins were not done, adding one more in the ninth to get to the final tally, when Anthony George drove a leadoff double into the left-center gap, Heffron singled and Southern walked to load them up, allowing pinch-hitter Duncan Hunter to drive in a run when he was hit by a pitch.
 
Avery Love relieved Temple in the seventh, and pitched two scoreless innings, striking out two. His brother, Nick Love, pitched a perfect ninth, with two strikeouts of his own, to finish it out.
 
CHANATRY COACH'S COMMENT


ON DECK
 
Jacksonville returns home to face Florida State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at John Sessions Stadium. The Seminoles entered the weekend ranked as high as #12 in the D1Baseball poll, and is coming to Jacksonville fresh off a home sweep of Cincinnati.
 
HODGES MAZDA PLAYER OF THE GAME
 
CF Ruben Someillan drove in four runs with a pair of hits, including a triple, his first of the year. He also drew a walk. All four of his RBIs came with two-outs.
 
NOTABLES
 

• Five of the seven games that Jacksonville has played in this season have been decided by one run
• The Dolphins persistent approach at the plate paid off Sunday, as JU drew seven walks and were hit by pitches three times
• With five more extra base hits on Sunday, JU had 11 over the course of the series. Scott Dubrule and Christian Coipel each hit home runs, Ruben Someillan legged out a triple, and there were eight doubles: two each by Scott Dubrule, Jacob Southern and Cory Heffron and one by Coipel and Anthony George
• Austin Temple rattled off seven more strikeouts today, matching his total in last week's start, which is a career-high. He combined with the Love brothers for 11 total today, and JU pitching now has 81 total through eight games