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February 19, 2000
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The seventh-ranked Auburn Tiger baseball team got back on the winning track by defeating New Orleans, 4-3, in a see-saw battle during the second day of the Winn Dixie Showdown. Auburn improved 10-1 overall, while New Orleans fell to 2-3.
Auburn scored in the second inning to take a 1-0 lead with a Hayden Gliemmo RBI to score Gabe Gross.
UNO came back to take the lead 2-1 in the fifith inning.
In the top of the eighth, Auburn scored two runs on a Bobby Huddleston double to take the lead 3-2.
UNO tied the game in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings on a Jonathan Schuerholz error.
Then in the top of the tenth, Jonathan Schuerholz got redemption by singling in Gliemmo for the winning run.
For the Tigers, catcher Bobby Huddleston was 3-for-5 with two RBI, while Hayden Gliemmo was 1-for-1 with one RBI.
Starter Chris Bootcheck for Auburn went seven strong innings giving up two runs on eight hits and seven strikeouts.
Reliever Colter Bean (1-0) picked up the win for the Tigers, while reliever Jim Plaisance (0-1) was charged with the loss for UNO.
The Tigers will wrap up play at the Winn Dixie Showdown when they face No. 4 Alabama in a non-conference match-up Sunday at 1 pm. Brent Speigner (3-0) gets the start for Auburn.
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