Loyola baseball coach Gregg Mucerino measures his team’s progress in ten-game intervals.

“The last ten games are more important than overall stats,” he said. “It’s about ‘what have you done lately?’ Bottom line: you need to be playing your best baseball at the end.”

And lately, the ‘Pack has improved from its mid-season dip, going 4-6 in its last ten games.

“When we’re clicking on all cylinders, we’re hard to beat,” Mucerino said. “We can play against anyone when everything is clicking. I think our guys are beginning to raise their standards and expectations of themselves.”

On Tuesday, the ‘Pack gave Mississippi College, a Division III school who dominated them in February, a good game but could not overcome the Choctaws’ early lead and fell 9-6.

This was the first time in history that the ‘Pack played in the Superdome.

Business junior Kevin Kalina led the offense by going two for four, with an RBI.

Communications junior Hudson Miller hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning to bring Loyola to within three runs.

Loyola started an April 24 doubleheader with LSU-Shreveport by allowing six runs in the second inning of the first game in an 8-1 loss.

The loss was Loyola’s ninth in its last 11 conference games.

Communications junior Greg Veltri came through in extra innings of the second game with a one-out RBI, scoring pinch runner and biology junior David Greiner.

In a win on the road against Southeastern April 20, criminal justice junior Jeff Pippenger pitched a complete-game 4-1 victory.

The Wolfpack visits conference leader William Carey this weekend. The conference tournament is next weekend.