Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Henderson State baseball team split a non-conference double-header against Louisiana State-Shreveport on Tuesday, winning the first game 4-0 and dropping the second 6-4.

In game one, both teams were scoreless through three innings before HSU(20-14) tacked on three runs in the top of the fourth, as Conner Brackhahn smashed a three-run homer to plate Claude Johnson and Lance Fields.

HSU would score one more run in the top of the seventh, as Jordan Taylor singled to right field to score Andrew Reynolds from third base.

Jay Hawley was exceptional in picking up the win through five innings of work from the mound, giving up just two hits against 17 batters, while Nick Vanthillo closed in the last two innings.

In the second game, LSU-Shreveport (28-10) jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the first inning after James Jean doubled to deep left field, scoring two Pilot runners.

Jean would then score the third run from third base on the next LSUS at-bat, as Grady Caldwell singled.

Henderson State responded with two runs of its own in the second inning when Tadarious Hawkins hit a triple to left center field, scoring Brackhahn and Carlos Rodriguez.

The Pilots added one run in the second inning, and two more in the fifth to take a 6-2 lead over the Reddies.

In the sixth inning, HSU would look to answer as Lance Field cranked a solo home run over the left field wall, narrowing the LSU-Shreveport lead to three.

Claude Johnson scored Tadarious Hawkins from third base in the top of the seventh inning with a single to left field to make the score 6-4, but the Reddies would get no closer as Brandon Russell struck out the next two HSU batters to end the game.

Taylor would suffer the loss for HSU from the mound, falling to 2-2 on the season.

Fields would lead HSU in hits on the day with three, while Hawkins and Johnson each had two apiece.

Brackhahn drove in three runners to lead HSU in RBIs, while Hawkins had two.

The Reddies return home for a three-game Great American Conference series against Southern Nazarene beginning with a single game on Friday at Clyde Berry Field, with the first pitch set for 3 p.m.