WEEK 2 STATS: .333 BA (4-for-12), HR, 2 2B, 4 RBI, 3 runs, SB
Owens produced at the plate against the nation’s top-ranked team, totaling three extra-base hits and four RBI over a three-game series. The sophomore catcher, who hit .333 and struck out only once in 12 at-bats, scored one run in each of Bryant’s three battles at No. 1 Louisiana State. He logged two-hit, two-RBI performances in both the series opener and Sunday’s finale. Owens plated the Bulldogs’ first run of the series by lacing a fourth-inning, one-out double on Friday. He touched ‘em all later in the game, leading off the eighth frame by launching a solo blast to left field. The sophomore was held hitless during Game 2, but reached base on a fourth-inning HBP and eventually came around to score. With Bryant hoping to hand LSU its first loss of the season, Owens delivered at multiple key junctures during Sunday’s one-run setback. As he did in the opener, the second-year Bulldog drove in Bryant’s first run of the finale. Cutting into a 2-0 deficit in the top of the fourth, Owens belted a two-out double that chased Jimmy Titus home. He plated a second run by connecting on a two-out single in the sixth inning. Following the RBI hit, Owens proceeded to steal second base before scoring the tying run on a Gaby Cruz single.