THIBODAUX, La. – After earning a split in a Sunday doubleheader to take the series over Northwestern State, the Nicholls baseball team begins the last week of the regular season in Baton Rouge taking on the LSU Tigers Tuesday night. The Colonels lost both games to the Tigers last season and last defeated the Tigers in 2009.
 
The Opening Pitch
The Colonels are coming off of their first conference series win since defeating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 2-1 in late March... Jeremy Hill was named the LSWA Offensive Player of the Week on Monday, finishing last week hitting .444 with eight hits, five RBI and six runs scored...  Hill is on the second 12-game hitting streak of the season, tying the career high he set two-weeks ago, and the longest on the team this season.. The Colonels finished with 24 hits on Sunday alone, improving to 15-4 when outhitting an opponent... LSU is the fourth nationally-ranked team the Colonels will face this year after playing Southern Miss, Stony Brook and Sam Houston State this year and is 2-6 in those contests.
 
Following the action
Radio - Eagle 98.1 FM, WWL 870 AM
Internet - ThibodauxOnline.com
Live Stats – LSUSports.net
 
Nicholls/LSU Series Notes
LSU holds a 48-23 advantage in all-time meetings between the two teams... The Tigers won both games last year in a home-and-home series, scoring 12 runs in each game... Nicholls defeated the Tigers 3-1 in 2009 when the Tigers were ranked No. 1 in the country at the time, before going on to win the national championship that season... LSU has won 11 of the last 12 meetings against the Colonels... In the last nine seasons, LSU has only won by double-digit runs in two contests, with six games having the Colonels fall by five runs or less.
 
More on the Tigers
The Tigers are 39-13 on the season and 17-10 in the Southeastern Conference, leading the SEC West... The Tigers are coming off of a home series loss to Vanderbilt over the weekend... LSU boasts the top hitter in the nation in Ralph Rymes who is hitting over .500 on the season... The Tigers are 22-3 in non-conference games this season and 30-7 at home... LSU is nearly unbeatable when leading after the sixth inning, losing only twice when leading after six or seven innings, 32-0 when leading after eight... As a team, the Tigers are in the top five in the SEC in pitching and hitting statistics.
 
Up Next
The Colonels close out the regular season beginning on Thursday with a three-game series against Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches.