LAFAYETTE �” Cody Boutte won a pitchers duel with Tyler McDonald and Thomas Smith has a solo home run and a two-out two RBI triple in the 10th inning as New Iberia Holiday Sporting Goods Cajuns beat the Sulphur Drillers 4-2 in the first round of the American Legion Sub-regional Tournament held at Louisiana-Lafayette’s M.L. Tigue Moore Field Saturday.

Boutte went all 10 innings and allowed two runs on seven hits with 16 strikeouts and allowed six walks as New Iberia advanced in the winner’s bracket and will face the winner of the late game between the Heymann Chiefs and the Crowley Millers tonight.

Sulphur fell to the loser’s bracket and will face the loser of the late game in an elimination contest.

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“It was an exciting game,” said Cajuns coach Shane Faucheaux. “It was two pretty good pitchers on the mound today and they battled each other for 10 innings. It was a pretty intense game for a while.”

The Cajuns scored a run in the fifth and a run in the sixth to rally after Sulphur posted a run in the bottom of the fourth to take the early lead. Smith tied the game at 1-1 in the fifth with a solo homerun but his game-winning heroics would come in the 10th inning when blasted a two-out shot into the gap between center and left field that scored Richie Mouret and Jordan Abney to give New Iberia a 4-2 lead after Sulphur tied the game in the bottom of the ninth to force extra innings.

“Smitty came up clutch for us and gave us that RBI-triple that scored two runs and then we were able to get a double play and strike out in the bottom of the 10th to close it out,” said Faucheaux.

Boutte picked up the win and the complete game despite throwing 148 pitches in the game. He finished out the game in the 10th inning with a strikeout as Faucheaux and pitching coach Zeke Elliot went against their instincts to pull him for a relief pitcher.

“We went against all our rules and let Cody go out there for the 10th,” said Faucheaux. “He called for the baseball and it’s something that I don’t like doing but he was throwing hard and we ran him out there for one more inning.”

McDonald proved to be just as good as Boutte for Sulphur as he allowed four runs on seven hits over 10 innings.

Mouret, Abney, Thomas Theriot and Bryce Sibille each had a hit for the Cajuns in the win.

St. Landry 15, Creole 0, 5 innings

In the first game of the tournament, Chris Meche had two hits and an RBI and John Ladd added a two-run homerun as the St. Landry Bank Indians beat the Creole Oilers 15-0 in five innings to advance in the winners bracket.

St. Landry was invited into the tournament on Friday after Abbeville backed out of the tournament at the last minute.

The Indians will play the winner of the Eunice Oilers and American Glass Athletics today in a winner’s bracket game while the loser plays in an elimination game.

Eunice-American Glass

The third game of the tournament, the game between the Eunice Oilers and the American Glass Athletics, was in a rain-delay in the fifth inning with the Oliers leading 5-0.

According to tournament officials, the game was supposed to get underway again at 9:30 p.m. Saturday night, with the late game between Crowley and Heymann to start at 9:30 p.m. today.

All four games scheduled for today were expected to be played and the games would start after the Crowley-Heymann game ended.

The Cajuns and the winner of the Crowley-Heymann game was tentively scheduled for 7:30 p.m. today.