Final Stats BATON ROUGE, La. – After holding the LSU Tigers to just two runs in their first meeting two weeks ago, the Nicholls State University baseball team did one better and held a 3-2 lead at one point during the game on Wednesday before the No. 3-ranked team in the country scored seven unanswered runs in the seventh and eighth innings to defeat Nicholls 9-3 at Alex Box Stadium.

With the loss the Colonels fall to 9-9 on the season, with LSU improving to 16-1 on the year as Nicholls has not earned a win over the Tigers since the 2009 season.

After LSU put up two runs in the second, Nicholls came back with a run in the third on a Matt Richard sacrifice fly driving in Tyler Duplantis to make the score 2-1. Duplantis and Richard would be the biggest catalysts for the Nicholls scoring output on the night, as Duplantis scored the second run of the fifth on a Richard single to right to put the Colonels up 3-2.

Duplantis was the only Colonel to register multiple hits on the day, finishing 2-for-3 scoring twice, with Richard driving in two runs on just one hit. Philip Lyons, Seth Stevens and David Zorn had the rest of Nicholls' six hits on the night.

In his first start, Brandon Jackson pitched five innings allowing three runs on eight hits with two walks and two strikeouts, followed by Grant Borne who faced four batters in the next inning with a walk and strikeout. After that, the LSU bats started to get the best of Nicholls as the next three pitchers combined to give up six runs on five hits, with Kelby Langston (0-3) allowing the tying run in the seventh before Chris Miller and Jordan McCoy gave up five runs on three hits in the five-run eighth.

LSU threw ten pitchers on the night, as Nicholls got all three runs off of pitchers Hunter Newman and Hunter Devall, but the eight other pitchers struck out four Colonel batters and did not give up a hit in the final four innings.

Five different Tiger hitters had at least two hits in the game, with first baseman Mason Katz going 3-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored, hitting a two-run blast to cap the eighth inning pacing LSU to the win.

In the first inning, Nicholls pulled off a rare feat in turning a triple play, as LSU's Alex Bregman hit a liner to Lyons who stepped on the bag at second and made the throw to first to end the inning after LSU got two runners on in the first two at bats.

Nicholls hits the road again this weekend, traveling to California for a four-game series against San Jose State beginning Friday night.