The Lake Charles Gumbeaux Gators kept their hot streak alive Wednesday with a 4-3 walk-off win over the Acadiana Cane Cutters at McNeese State’s Joe Miller Ballpark.

The Gators have won eight of their last 10 games and won the first half Louisiana division title in the Texas Collegiate League. The first-half title guarantees the Gators a spot in the TCL playoffs in July.

Aiden Walsh (St. Louis Catholic / Panola JC) had the winning hit on a single with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to score Dillon Bird (Sulphur HS / Baton Rouge CC). Bird led off the inning with a walk and advanced when the Cane Cutters committed an error trying to deal with Krayton Morse’s (Jacksonville State) sacrifice bunt.

The game was a pitchers’ duel early at Lake Charles’ Parker Morgan (St. Louis Catholic / McNeese State) and Acadiana’s Will Taylor (UL-Lafayette) combined to pitch five scoreless innings. In three starts, Morgan hasn’t allowed an earned run in 11 innings pitched with 11 strikeouts and five walks.

Carson Laws (Texas State) earned his second relief win of the season. He entered with the bases loaded in the top of the ninth inning, recording three outs with the final one on a strikeout with the go-ahead run in third base.

Down 1-0 until the Gators scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. Prescott Marsh (Loyola New Orleans) hits a two-run double with one out for the lead and Seth Fontenot (Baton Rouge CC) added a RBI single.

The Cane Cutters tied it at 3-3 in the top of the ninth inning. Tanner Hornback hit into a double play but the Cane Cutters were able to squeeze a run out of it and Dylan Biddick’s followed with an RBI single.

The Gators will play two games at Smokey Joe Williams Field against the Sequin River Monsters at 7 p.m. today and Friday then two games at Fabacher Field in Lafayette against the Acadiana Cane Cutters on Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m.