Final Stats THIBODAUX, La. – The Nicholls State University baseball team fell to No. 5 University of Louisiana-Lafayette in the second of a two-game home-and-home series, 7-1, despite late-game heroics to send the game into extra innings.

Effective pitching from both sides kept the game scoreless through the sixth inning.  The Ragin' Cajuns (19-2) scored a run in the seventh before the Colonels (10-12) answered with a run of their own on an RBI single by Charles Morton in the eighth to force extra innings.
Pitching was by committee for both teams with the Cajuns employing seven pitchers and the Colonels exercising eight over the 11-inning marathon.

Brandon Jackson, Cole Stapler, Zach Thiac, and Jason McDonald started the solid pitching outing, combining to throw six scoreless innings with only five hits from the high-powered Cajun offense. Stuart Holmes, and Marc Frazier each threw one inning, allowing a combined four hits with one earned run coming off of Stuart.  Marc Picciola pitched two scoreless innings in the ninth and 10th, allowing no hits.

Justin Sinibaldi (0-1) took the loss allowing six unearned runs on three hits in the final inning.

The Colonels were led at the plate by Marc Frazier and David Zorn, who recorded two hits each.  Keith Cormier chipped in a hit as well and scored the game tying run in the eighth.

Ben Carter led off the pitching effort for the Cajuns through three innings with three hits, three strikeouts, and no earned runs.  Chris Griffitt, Nick Zaunbrecher, Connor Toups, Martin Anderson, and Matt Hicks pitched one inning each for a combined total of one earned run on three hits over five innings.  Reagan Bazar (2-0) earned the win, throwing the final three innings while allowing no runs on two hits.

It was a disappointing end to a series where the Colonels were even or leading the Cajuns in 14 of the 20 innings overall.  The Cajuns were averaging 7.4 runs and had 18 home runs heading into the series but were held under to just six runs and no home runs through two games against the Colonels.

Nicholls will look to bounce back against Lamar University in a three-game series beginning Friday, at 6:30 p.m. at Vincent-Beck Stadium in Beaumont, Texas.