THIBODAUX, La. – In a game that saw 31 hits and multiple lead changes, the Nicholls State University baseball team was beaten 12-10 by the University of New Orleans in extra innings on Ben Meyer Diamond at Ray E. Didier Field on Sunday afternoon.
After trailing 2-0 early, Nicholls tied the game on single and ground out in the bottom of the third. New Orleans retook the lead on two hits and two Colonel errors in the fourth to go up 5-2.
Fisher Ingersoll plated
Greyson Shafer with a sacrifice fly to make the score 5-3.
Following an efficient fifth inning from pitcher
Will Mabry, the Colonels scored four runs on five hits in the bottom of the stanza. After
Nico Rijo-Berger was hit by a pitch,
Caston Thompson doubled to center field before they scored on consecutive hits by
Carter Jenkins and
Keegan Giger to tie the game. Shafer plated Jenkins and Giger with a base knock to put the Colonels up 7-5.
Nicholls fell behind after New Orleans exploded for five runs on five hits including a double and a home run in the top of the sixth. The Red & Gray fought back to tie the game at 10 with two runs in the seventh and one in the eighth.
The rally began with a
Jaxon Milam leadoff home run in the bottom of the seventh.
Logan Mock singled up the middle and later scored on a Thompson sacrifice fly to bring the Colonels within one.
Keegan Giger followed Milam's lead in the eighth as he blasted a solo home run to tie the contest at 10.
Both teams were retired in order by relief pitchers
Dalton Hill and Luke Lycette in the ninth. UNO threatened with bases loaded in the 10th, but
Cole Simoneaux left the runners stranded with three strikeouts. The Colonels matched the Privateers one hit in the 10th but could not capitalize.
UNO took the final lead with a two-run home run by Miles Curley in the top of the 11th before the Colonels were retired in order to finish the game.
The Colonels had 16 hits as Giger led the way with four including a double. Milam added three hits as Rijo-Berger, Jenkins, and Mock finished with two apiece. Thompson, Jenkins, Giger, and Shafer had two RBI apiece.
Nicholls used seven pitchers as starter
Nuno Parache had the longest outing as he allowed four hits and five runs in three full frames.
Will Mabry and Hill went two innings apiece while
Cannon Hensarling,
Cole Poirrier and Simoneaux pitched one.
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Nicholls will cross state lines to take on Mississippi State in Starkville on Tuesday, May 5 at 6 p.m.
