CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Nicholls State University baseball team scored seven runs in the ninth inning of its 11-4 win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Chapman Field on Saturday afternoon.
After the Islanders scored three runs across the seventh and eighth innings to tie the game 4-4. The Colonels responded with seven unanswered runs that began with a
Narvin Booker Jr. two RBI single that brought around
MaCrae Kendrick and
Erick Ordonez who opened the frame with back-to-back base hits.
Kade Turnage and
Garrett Felix used their speed to score on a wild pitches and
Parker Coddou and
Aaron Biediger plated Booker Jr. and
Edgar Alvarez via sacrifice flies.
Booker Jr. broke a scoreless tie in the third inning with a sacrifice fly to bring home
Erick Ordonez who laced a leadoff double down the left field line. Sebastian Trinidad responded with his own RBI single to make the score 1-1 after three innings.
In the fifth, Coddou plated Turnage with a double and Alvarez brought Coddou home with a single down the left field line. In the following stanza, Ordonez hit a sacrifice fly to bring home Felix and pit the Red & Gray up 4-1.
Starting pitcher
Michael Quevedo struckout five while allowing six hits and two runs in 6.1 innigs of action.
Michael Guerrero picked up his first victory of the season. Samuel Feltz (2-1) picks up his first loss of the season for the Islanders.
The Colonels tallied 13 hits and everyone in the lineup registred at least one hit. Booker Jr., Coddou, Ordonez, and Kendrick had two hits apiece, while Biediger, Turnage, Felix, Alvarez, and
Gerardo Villarreal each had one. For Alvarez, he extended his hitting streak to 20 games which is the longest streak by a Colonel since
Xane Washington's 19 game hit streak last season.
The Islanders scored one run on a Garrett Gruell double to center field in the seventh followed by one run on a Logan Vaughan double and another on a Trinidad single in the eighth to bring the teams even (4-4).
UP NEXT
The Colonels will play Louisiana in Lafayette on Tuesday, April 2 at 6 p.m. and host Mississippi Valley State on Wednesday, April 3 at 6:30 p.m.