MEMPHIS, Tenn. - With the game tied in the seventh inning, the Nicholls State University baseball team got the go-ahead runs courtesy of a 3-run home run by Alec Paz to lift the Colonels to a 14-8 victory over Memphis Friday night at FedEx Park.

Paz' home run sparked a string of seven consecutive late runs for the Colonels (6-5). Nicholls pieced together four in the ninth on only one hit. Two bases loaded walks and a failed pickoff led to the first three before Parker Codduo had a sacrifice fly.

Memphis added a run in the ninth to make the final.

Nicholls totaled 14 hits with Jaden Collura and Codduo racking up three hits each.  Xane Washington homered for one of his two hits, and Felix Garrett added two singles and two runs scored.

Memphis led 4-1 after four innings before the Colonels scored four times in the fifth. One run scored on an infield single by Coddou and another came home on the play on a throwing error. Dane Simon added an RBI on a groundout and Coddou ended the scoring, coming home on a passed ball.

After Memphis scored in the fifth, the Colonels took a 7-5 lead in the sixth. Washington homered for the third time this season, and Collura followed with a sacrifice fly.

The Tigers tied it up with two unearned runs. But in the seventh, a Simon single and an Austin Cain walk set up Paz for his go-ahead homer. 

Chase Gearing notched the win with 2.2 innings of relief. He allowed two hits and two unearned runs. Cade Evans struck out three in 2.1 innings to earn his second save of the season.

Nico Saltaformaggio made the start on the bump, lasting 4.0 innings with three earned runs on eight hits.