Final Stats THIBODAUX, La. – The Nicholls State University baseball team scored the first run of the game against Towson on Friday afternoon, but the Colonels would not score again and leave eight runners on base as the Tigers got stronger as the day went on getting all three of its runs in the seventh to defeat the Colonels 3-1 at Ray E. Didier Field.

With the loss the Colonels fall to 3-2 on the season, snapping the team's three-game winning streak heading into the weekend, while the Tigers improve to 4-0.

Looking dominant on the mound for over two-thirds of the contest, Nicholls starting pitcher Mike Suk (0-2) went into the seventh giving up a hit to open the inning, and although he got the next batter to pop up on a failed bunt, the next play turned the game around for Towson as what looked to be an inning ending double play became a fielder's choice that left a runner on with just two outs.

That lone runner would go on to steal second with the next batter earning a walk, bringing up Towson's Hunter Bennett hitting a looping single to right field to score the game tying run and end Suk's afternoon. He was still on the hook for the two runners on base, as they were driven in on a single to centerfield off of reliever Marc Picciola. Suk's final line for the day was three runs allowed on five hits with two walks and five strikeouts.

Nicholls committed three errors in the game, all coming from the left side of the infield as Ray Eureste had two at short, while Zachary LeBeouf had one at third.

Of Nicholls seven hits on the afternoon, five came off of Towson starter Mike Volpe who got chased from the game in the fifth after giving up a double to Matt Richard and hitting Mike Barba to put two runners on with just one out. The change for the Tigers proved to be key as Mike Ryan came on for Volpe and got Nicholls to hit into a fielder's choice for out number two and even though it put runners at the corners, Ryan got Leo Vargas to hit into another fielder's choice to end the inning.

Ryan (2-0) would go on to earn the win as he pitched 3.1 innings giving up just two hits, while Chris Acker (1) earned the save pitching the final 1.1 innings allowing just one hit with a strikeout.

David Zorn had two hits to lead Nicholls on the afternoon, with six Colonels registering one hit in the ballgame. After the opportunity with runners at the corners in the fifth, Nicholls did not have a runner in scoring position until a Vargas triple down the left field line in the bottom of the eighth inning was the last chance the Colonels had to try and get some momentum going in the final innings. Zorn had the final hit for Nicholls in the game coming in the ninth, but the final three batters went down in order to end the game.

Game two of the series against Towson will begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Ray E. Didier Field.