Final Stats CONWAY, Ark. – After dropping the previous day's game in heartbreaking fashion, the Nicholls State University baseball team needed just two runs on Saturday and evened up the series with a dominating pitching performance from the Colonels staff in a 2-1 win over the Central Arkansas Bears in Conway.

The win snaps a nine-game conference losing streak for the Colonels (17-19, 2-9 SLC), as after giving up ten hits yesterday Nicholls limited the Bears (25-9, 5-6) to just five today with just one run crossing the plate.

Kory Delange (5-3) gave up the only UCA run of the day, but did so in 6.2 innings scattering five hits with four walks and three strikeouts. Even after the 6-7 right-hander left the mound, UCA still found little relief as Brandon Jackson and Jordan McCoy (7) combined to pitch the next 1.1 innings of scoreless ball not allowing a single hit or walk with two strikeouts.

Mike Barba, who was looking for a breakout game after struggling at the plate the last week, was the only batter to accumulate multiple hits on the day going 2-for-3, with the biggest shot coming from the bat of Cody Dufrene who hit his third home run of the year for the first score of the game in the third. Matt Richard, Keith Cormier, and Zachary LeBeouf all had one hit, while Leo Vargas brought in the game winning run to close out the inning.

UCA's Jeffery Enloe (6-2) took just his second loss of the season and pitched the entire game striking out five with no walks on just 100 pitches. Although the Bears had just five hits, Central Arkansas stranded ten runners on base, including seven in scoring position, having a chance to take an early lead stranding a runner at second and third in the first, while leaving the bases loaded in the fifth after falling behind.

After a swinging strikeout to open the top of the third, Dufrene liked the first pitch he saw enough to drive in over the fence in left center giving Nicholls the 1-0 lead. Consecutive singles by Barba to left and Richard to the pitcher, a wild play got Barba out at third but advanced Richard to second. Vargas registered the fourth hit of the inning and made it count scoring Richard from second to give the Colonels a 2-0 lead.

In the bottom half of that inning, Central Arkansas needed just two hits to score its lone run of the game, doing so with two outs unable to do any further damage.

The finale of the series is set for 1 p.m. tomorrow at Bears Stadium.