{"id":193461,"date":"2026-03-06T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193461\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:00:14","slug":"colonels-cross-state-lines-for-weekend-series-against-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193461\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonels Cross State Lines for Weekend Series Against Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n THIBODAUX, La. \u2013 After consecutive victories, the Nicholls State University baseball team will look to keep its momentum rolling in a three-game series at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on March 6-8.
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\nNicholls (7-8, 1-2 SLC) have won three consecutive games as they beat McNeese in the series finale on Sunday before picking up one run victories over Tulane (6-5) and No. 10 Southern Miss (3-2). \u00a0
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\nThe Colonels’ offense is spearheaded by Caston Thompson<\/a> who holds a .404 batting average and hit a pair of home runs in the victory over Tulane. Leadoff hitter Keegan Giger<\/a> has 18 hits, bats .290, and picked up his 12th RBI in the victory over the nationally ranked Golden Eagles. Casey Artigues<\/a> has 11 hits and matches Giger’s run total (9) while Carter Jenkins<\/a>, Greyson Shafer<\/a>, and Jaxon Milam<\/a> have 10 hits apiece.
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\nThe Red & Gray pitching staff has 145 strikeouts as Nuno Parache<\/a> (5.63 ERA), Dawson Richard<\/a> (3.18 ERA), and Cole Simoneaux<\/a> (7.59 ERA) lead the way with 14 apiece. Joseph Bordelon<\/a> has a 1.69 ERA and has 13 strikeouts and two saves.
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\nTexas A&M-Corpus Christi (8-5) enters the weekend on a two-game losing streak after dropping the series finale against Texas Southern and a midweek contest against No. 25 UTSA.\u00a0 The Islanders’ offense is led by Isaiah Afework and Cade Sanchez who bat .441 and .417 respectively. Sanchez has 20 hits and 12 RBI. Their pitching staff has accumulated 124 strikeouts and Preston Watkins (3.00 ERA) leads the unit with 17.
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\nNicholls enters the series with a nine-game winning streak against the Islanders. Despite the long winning streak, the Colonels trail the all-time series 20-26 dating back to 2008.
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