McNeese State completed a sweep of Central Arkansas with a 7-4 Southland Conference victory here Sunday afternoon behind the pitching of Sam English and Danny Davis.
English, now 3-4, started the game and left after 5.1 innings with a 5-3 lead. Davis, who earned his third save, came on and hurled 3.2 innings of three hit, one run ball while striking out five.
Offensively, Bryan Cartie and Charlie Kingrey led the way in a 13 hit Cowboy attack. Cartie, who would be tossed out of the game late to join English and head coach Chris Fackler who were ejected earlier, went three for three with one RBI while Kingrey drove in two insurance runs in the bottom of the seventh on a double.
The Cowboys are now 19-28 overall and 15-8 in Southland play. The Bears fell to 18-27 and to 7-17.
In his appearance in the game, Davis tied the McNeese career record with 97 appearances.
Danny Davis made a school record tying 97th appearance on Sunday.
Daniel Price started for the Bears but went only one inning and took the loss, dropping his record to 2-6.
The Bears got on the board first, scoring in the opening frame after Kevin Rawls singled and moved to second before scoring on a Kent Taylor single to make it 1-0.
The Cowboys answered back in the bottom of the second, scoring four runs after Kingrey walked to lead off the inning. A single by Cartie brought him in. Thomas Zabasky advanced Cartie to third on a single and Taylor Faul walked to load the bases before Justin Beitzel drove in Cartie. Zabasky scored on a Andy Riche' groundout and David Leatherwood put down a bunt single to finish the scoring and put the score at 4-1.
The Pokes added another run in the third when Joe Hulett singled, stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch. Cartie then plated him with his second hit of the game to make it 5-1.
The Bears added a single run in the fifth inning on a error by the Cowboys and added two runs in the sixth on singles by Payton Seelinger and Chris Davis to bring the score to 5-4.
McNeese added some insurance runs in the seventh inning after Riche' singled and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Leatherwood. Landry singled to put runners at first and third before Kingrey doubled to left field to bring in both runners and finish the scoring at 7-4.
In addition to Cartie's three hits, Beitzel and Landry added two hits. Leatherwood, Hulett, Kingrey, Faul, Zabasky and Riche' each added one hit. Kingrey had two RBI while Leatherwood, Cartie, Beitzel, Zabasky and Riche' each added one.
The Cowboys next series is against Texas State in their last road series of the year next weekend.
