Odie Fremin
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May 5, 2015
The Nicholls State University baseball team got the sweep it was looking for this past weekend, taking all three games from Southland Conference rival Houston Baptist.
The Colonels won Friday night’s game 2-1 and Saturday’s game 4-3 over Houston Baptist, who entered the weekend running stride-for-stride with the Colonels in the Southland Conference standings.
On Sunday’s game, Nicholsl took the drama away early, scoring six combined runs in the first three innings to roll to an early 6-1 lead en route to a comfortable 7-2 win.
On Sunday’s game, the top of the Colonels’ batting order did the lion’s share of the run-scoring damage, but the entire batting order overwhelmed Houston Baptist.
Nicholls’ top four batters combined to go 7-of-18 in Sunday afternoon’s win with 5 combined RBI.
Centerfielder Justin Holt led the rally out of the lead-off spot in the order, going 3-of-5 on the day to spark the Colonels. Three-hole batter Kyle Reese was just as good, batting 2-of-4 with 2 RBI. Cleanup hitter Tanner Vandevere was also 2-of-4 on the day.
With the early runs, Colonels starter Justin Sinibaldi was flawless, tossing five innings and allowing just two earned runs to get his ninth win of the season.
With the sweep, Nicholls will now enter the stretch run of the season in prime position in the standings.
At press-time, the Colonels are 28-16 on the season and 14-10 in Southland.
That mark has the Colonels in fifth place.
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