Softball: Feb. 11 Scoreboard
Southland Conference
Nicholls 11, Southern 2 (6)
Texas Southern 6, Houston Baptist 1
Nicholls 11, Southern 2 (6)
THIBODAUX, La. – Playing in its first home game of the season, the Nicholls State University softball team did not disappoint the home crowd as the Colonels pounded out 15 hits to earn their second run-rule victory of the season against Southern with a 11-2 six-inning win on Wednesday night at the Colonel Softball Complex.
The win was the Colonels’ fourth consecutive and improved their record to 5-1 on the year. Southern dropped to 0-2, with both losses coming to Nicholls.
Unlike the first matchup, the Lady Jaguars hung around the Colonels through three innings as the game was knotted at 1-1. The Colonels pushed their lead to 4-1 with a three-run fourth and then déjà vu struck as the Red and Gray exploded for seven runs in the sixth to earn a walk-off mercy rule victory. Nicholls led Southern 7-0 in their first meeting before ending the game with eight runs in the final inning.
A total of seven Colonels tallied two hits in the win and Haley Parkerson led the team with three RBIs. Alexis Huss had two hits with a double and drove in two while Haley Stevenson had a triple as one of her two hits and also scored twice. Danielle Phillips and Laura Neil chipped in with two RBIs each.
Jackie Johnson (2-1) earned the win in the circle, giving up four hits and a run in five innings of work. After the Colonels took a 1-0 lead in the first on a sacrifice fly by Phillips, Johnson gave up a leadoff double to Alicia Barajas in the third and then allowed her to score on a wild pitch later in the inning to even the score.
In the bottom of the fourth, Nicholls gained the lead with four hits to plate three runs. With two on and one out, Parkerson ripped a ball over the rightfielder and went on to leg out a triple. The next batter, Payton Gremillion, beat out a close play at first for an infield single as Parkerson came home for a 4-1 lead.
Southern got one back in the top of the sixth off Taylor Hastings, who pitched one inning for the save. Kiara Suttles singled for the Lady Jaguars and came around to score after a Colonel error and two wild pitches.
In the bottom half, Stevenson started the big inning with the Colonels’ second triple of the game. Stevenson was 2-of-2 at the plate to up her average to a team-high .625 after six games. She then scored on a groundout before the Colonels blew the game open, all with two outs.
An error and back-to-back singles pushed the lead to 6-2. Kayla Prater then drove in a run with a single to center and Huss added to the lead with a 2-run double. Up 9-2 with the bases loaded, Neil, the Colonels’ lone senior, laced a single to left center to bring home two runs, ending the game at 11-2 in six innings.
Southern finished with five hits, getting two by Suttles. Delphia Holmes took the loss, allowing four earned runs on eight hits in four innings.
The Colonels return to the diamond as they head to Birmingham, Ala. to take part in the Samford Invitational this weekend. Nicholls opens up tournament play on Friday, Feb. 13, against Murray State at 5 p.m.
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Texas Southern 6, Houston Baptist 1
HOUSTON, Texas – Senior 1B/C Melissa Herman smacked a solo home run to center field to cut HBU’s deficit to 2-1, but Texas Southern answered with two runs in the fifth and sixth to defeat the Huskies, 6-1, Wednesday afternoon at Husky Field.
Libby Brown led HBU (0-6) with two hits, as she hit her second double of the season. Herman, Victoria Granchelli, Nicole Shedd, Alyssa Burnett, and Caitlin Gunn had a hit apiece. Shannon O’Connor took the loss in the circle, as she allowed four hits, two runs, and one walk while striking out three in 4.0 innings. Emily Mueller and Laci Belovsky pitched the final two innings and had two strikeouts apiece.
Gisella Paranich went 4-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI to lead Texas Southern (1-5). Chelsea Guenther led the team with three RBIs. Madison Staton earned the win in the circle, as she gave up six hits, one run, and one walk with one strikeout in 5.0 innings. Samantha Jimenez tossed the final two innings and allowed one hit while striking out two.
There was no scoring until TSU scored twice in the top of the third. Paranich hit an RBI double, then, later scored on an RBI groundout by Guenther.
Herman and the Huskies cut the deficit to one, as she led off the bottom of the fourth with a solo shot to center. Brown followed with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt, putting the tying run in scoring position. But Staton and the Lady Tigers regrouped and got a fly out and a strike out to end the inning.
Mueller replaced O’Connor in the circle to start the top of the fifth and gave up a two-run double to Guenther to put TSU up, 4-2. The Lady Tigers would add two more in the top of the sixth on a two-run double by Briana Parker.
HBU will compete in the three-day, four-game Lion Classic II Feb. 13-15.
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