Final Stats BATON ROUGE, La. – The Colonels never-say-die attitude reared its head again against No. 4 LSU Tuesday night, as down by seven runs with two outs left the Colonels scored four runs in the final frame to make it close but fell to the Tigers 9-6 in Baton Rouge.

Nicholls (25-26) was held scoreless for five innings beginning in the fourth and lasting until the eighth, but got four runs on four hits in the inning to put a scare into the Tigers (40-13) late.

Philip Lyons and Blake Bergeron each finished with three hits on the night, as Bergeron drove in two RBI and scored once, while Lyons drove in one and scored one. Jeremy Hill extended his hitting streak to a new career-high of 13 games with a hit on Tuesday night, which is now the longest for any Colonel on the season and for any Colonel currently on the roster.

Mike Wisecarver (1-7) was solid for the first two innings but eventually took the loss after LSU's five run third, as the senior finished the night lasting five innings giving up three earned runs on seven hits with four walks. The staff would give up four more runs on the night, with three being credited to Brad Delatte on a Mason Katz three-run home run and one to Jordan McCoy who pitched the final inning.

Bergeron doubled to lead off the second inning for the Colonels first hit of the game. After going to a 3-2 count, Michael LeGrange was hit on the shoulder to reach first to put two runners on with no outs. A sacrifice bunt by Austin Flores advanced the runners to second and third for the first out. After the advance, Beau Faulk singled to short right-center driving in Bergeron to give Nicholls a 1-0 lead. Two consecutive pop ups ended the inning for Nicholls.

Back-to-back singles by Lyons and Matt Richard kick started the Nicholls third, putting two runners on base for the second-straight inning. After a deep fly ball out, Lyons tagged up and advanced to third with only one out. After a hard-hit chopper to third that was almost mishandled got Bergeron out at first, Lyons scored to give Nicholls a 2-0 lead with two outs in the inning. A walk to LeGrange kept the inning going, but an infield fly ball ended the inning.

A two-base error proved to be problematic for the Colonels in the home half of the third, as back-to-back hits by LSU made the score 2-1, then a double and throwing error allowed two more runs to score for LSU to earn the 3-2 lead with no outs on the board. Another single drove in a runner from third for the 4-2 Tiger lead. Nicholls settled down after and got the next two batters, but another single plated the fifth LSU run of the inning before a groundout closed the door with LSU leading 5-2.

With two outs Hill doubled to right-center to get a Colonel runner on base for the first time in two innings, and was followed up by a single to left field by Bergeron for his second hit of the game putting runners at the corners. But an infield popup ended the Colonel threat.

Brad Delatte came on in the bottom of the sixth inning and the LSU bats got hot as a three-run blast by Mason Katz put the Tigers up 8-2. LSU put up another run in the eighth after Jordan McCoy came on in relief of Delatte.

Adam Seal came into pinch hit for Nicholls in the ninth and garnered his second hit of the season with one out. Kevin Persick also came in to pinch hit and was walked to put two Colonels on. Ray Eureste and Byron Cobb would come in for both to put speed on the base paths. Lyons cracked a single up the middle scoring Eureste and pushing Cobb to second. Richard tallied his second hit of the night on a single to right field to load the bases. Hill hit a sharply ground ball to second which was misplayed scoring Cobb and Lyons and advancing Richard to third. Bergeron followed that up with a double to right field to score Richard to make the score 9-6. Unfortunately, the next two Colonels would go down in order to close out the game.

The Colonels close out the regular season with a berth in the conference tournament on the line with a three-game series against Stephen F. Austin beginning Thursday.