BEAUMONT – North Dakota State's Jeron Terres popped a two-out, three-run triple on the first pitch he saw after he entered as a pinch hitter and gave the Bison a lead that held Sunday when they downed the Lamar University baseball team  7-5 at Vincent-Beck Stadium in non-conference action.
 
The Bison (6-1) were down 5-3 when Terres took the box with the bases loaded and two outs.  He had Jayse McLean, who was 4-of-4 on the day, at third on a single, Andy Wicklund on a walk and Alec Abercrombie at first after another single. 
 
Terres turned on the pitch and drove the ball to left center field just past a diving Ryan Erickson's glove and rolled to the wall to make it 6-5. The extra insurance run was when Brayden Resch singled him home with a ball through the right side that got past a diving Gavin Tristan.
 
After starting out 6-0 with wins over No. 23 Arizona and No. 5 LSU, the Cardinals (6-3) have dropped three straight. Lamar wrapped up a nine games in 10 days stretch and was without two of its starters, Brendan Satran and Robin Adames, due to injury.
 
Lamar jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning that started with back-to-back hits from Stijn van der Meer and Jake Nash. Jacoby Middleton sacrificed them over with a bunt to the pitcher, and a wild pitch scored van der Meer before Cutter McDowell drove in Nash with a single through the left side.
 
NDSU tied the contest in the top of the third when McLean doubled home two runs, both unearned, and took the lead in the fourth on a Drew Fearing single to right field that scored Abercrombie, who lead off the inning with a double down the right field line.
 
The Cardinals were able to regain the lead with two more in the fourth when Chaneng Varela laced a two-out double to right center that scored Reid Russell and Erickson. Russell reached on a double and Erickson an error by Bison shortstop Fearing.
 
The fourth inning score was Nash, who reached on a single, after Bryndan Arredondo lifted a ball to centerfield for a sacrifice fly.
 
Billy Love started the game for Lamar on the mound, and pitched 3.0 innings and surrendered only one earned run on three hits. Brett Brown took the mound in the fourth and kept the NDSU bats quiet for three innings; he only allowed two hits and walked one.
 
Galen Andrews (1-1) suffered his first loss of the season in the four-run seventh for North Dakota State. He worked 2/3 off that inning and gave up all four runs on three hits and a walk.  Enrique finished off the game with two hits and a walk allowed.
 
Just like LU, NDSU went through four pitchers, starting with Blake Tritch. He pitched four frames and gave up for runs, two earned, with six hits allowed. Brian VanderWoude (2-0) took his second victory of the season on two inning pitched and one hit allowed. The save went to Sean Terres (2) with two innings of no-hit ball and two walks allowed.
 
Nash finished the day with three hits in five at-bats and had two runs scored on the day. Varela led the team with two RBI in the game, both on his double.
 
Lamar will play its 10^th contest in 12 days on Tuesday when it host Prairie View at Vincent-Beck Stadium at 4 p.m. For tickets or information, contact the ticket office at 409-880-1715.