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Wes Hoover had two hits, two RBIs and two runs scored today, including a double to tie him for the school record with 17 doubles in one season.

MAY 1, 2005
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Bucs Lose Finale With Southern Arkansas, 16-4

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Memphis, TN –
The Christian Brothers University Buccaneer baseball team lost in the finale of their series with Southern Arkansas today, 16-4.

CBU (21-30, 3-21 GSC) played in front of a near capacity crowd at Buc field for senior day.

SAU (33-23, 15-9 GSC) earns the third seed in the Gulf South Conference Tournament to be played next weekend at USA Stadium in Millington, TN.

Southern scored five runs over the first two innings, but CBU answered back with one in the second and two in the third to cut the lead to 5-3.

Mark Foster singled home Blake Christian for the first run in the second inning. Wes Hoover then homered over the left field fence, scoring John Raymond Hehn in the third. Christian drove in Hoover in the fifth on a single to center.

Hoover finished the day with two hits, two runs scored and two RBIs. Christian went 3-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Foster had two hits and an RBI, while Shane Hogan, Hehn and Brian DeJean had a hit each.

The Bucs finish the season 21-30. They came on strong late winning five games in a row before the second game of the Southern Arkansas series. Hoover tied the school record with 17 doubles in one season and Foster finished with 16, second all-time. Foster also moved up to 8th on the single-season hit list with 70, one in front of Zac Clements in 2001. The team finished with 104 doubles, second most all time and the most since 1998 and their 470 hits is ninth all-time.

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