Final Stats Stony Brook-Nicholls Box Score

THIBODAUX, La. – Down by seven runs after nearly six complete innings to the Stony Brooks Seawolves, the Nicholls baseball team rallied to score six runs over the bottom half of the sixth and seventh innings to pull to within two runs of Stony Brook, but the Colonel rally would end there as Nicholls fell 8-6 Friday night.

Nicholls (2-3) drilled 12 hits in the game, led by Michael LeGrange who finished the game going 4-for-5 at the plate with four RBI's on the night, while Beau Faulk, Jeremy Hill and Ray Eureste each finished with two hits.

Stony Brook (2-0), who defeated Alabama State 3-2 in the first game of the round robin, plated seven runs off of starting Nicholls pitcher Seth Webster (1-1) in taking the loss for the Colonels, although only two of those runs were earned on the senior in the game after the Colonels committed four errors over the first six innings.

After giving up three runs to fall behind 7-0 in the top of sixth, the Colonel offense finally woke up in the bottom half of the inning after a Eureste single to lead off the inning was followed by two fielder's choice plays putting Nicholls' back to the wall. With Blake Bergeron on first, Faulk singled to put runners at first and second. LeGrange got two of his four RBI's on one swing, doubling to bring in Bergeron and Faulk for the team's first two runs of the game.

Then, after Stony Brook plated another run in the top half of the seventh making the score 8-2, Matt Richard doubled to get on, and was then brought in by Eureste on an RBI single. After Hill hit into an unassisted groundout for the second out of the inning and advancing Eureste to second, Bergeron stepped up and singled to center bringing in the junior shortstop. Faulk stepped up again to single through the right side putting runners at first and second. LeGrange stepped up again and delivered another two RBI double to make the score 8-6 after a four run, five hit inning.

The last hope for Nicholls was in the eighth, when the Colonels stranded runners on second and third after walks to Cody Dufrene and Phil Lyons and a Matt Richard groundout. The next five batters for the Colonels went down in order, four by strikeout.

Overall the Colonels stranded nine runners on base during the contest.

Brandon McNitt earned the win for Stony Brook, going six innings, giving up two runs, two earned, on seven hits with five strikeouts. Zachary Uher and Jasvir Rakkar combined to go 2.1 innings giving up no hits and striking out five. Rakkar earned the save in the process.

The Colonels will return to action tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. playing the Alabama State Hornets in the first game Saturday.