Nicholls St. outlasts Jaguars

 
The Jaguar baseball team struggles continue after their disappointing 14-11 loss to Nicholls State Tuesday night at Lee-Hines Field.
Southern (12-12) came off a motivating weekend series sweep against Selma University this past weekend in hopes of evening the score from there last meeting against the Colonels.
The Jaguars came out strong in the first three innings bringing in a runner in the first inning and bringing in two more in the third.
But in the top of the fourth NSU scored six runs to take the lead with the help of third baseman Beau Faulk hammered a home run out the left center wall and had three RBI’s in that inning.
The Jaguars answered right back scoring seven runs in the bottom of the fourth, Cameron McGriff hit a double and had three RBI’s.
In the Seventh inning Nicholls State outfielder Michael LeGrange started the inning hitting a double down the left field line that sparked a four hit four run inning for the Colonels.
“We had some errors that hurt us we didn’t pitch particularly well in certain situations,” said head coach Roger Cador, “particularly with two outs we had two big innings where we had two outs but and couldn’t get the out it hurt us in the fourth inning and again in the seventh inning so we really didn’t do a good job there and that’s a learning experience.”
Although the Jaguars added an “L” to the record books the loss could be considered growing pains.
“I just want the kids to know that before you can capture success sometimes failure is necessity, you fail in order to be successful,” said Cador.
Daniel Garcia came in and pitch four innings giving up seven hits and eight runs with 22 at bats and the loss could be given to Pedro Fargas, who only pitch an inning and a half but gave up four runs and three hits and with only six at bats.
“Its just like a concentration, its not that they don’t know it but sometimes the hardest thing is when you get two easy outs its to concentrate enough to get that third out, we just got to make better pitches and have control of the outside corner of the plate,” said Cador.
Derrick Hopkins had the best night at bat finishing with an average of .438 and two RBI’s and both Wilmy Marrero and McGriff had three RBI’s.
The Jaguars will look to put the loss behind them traveling to Pine Bluff, Ark., this weekend to take on UAPB in a key SWAC Western Division series. The series begins a noon Saturday doubleheader and concludes Sunday at 1 p.m.
“We just got to keep improving so our chance for success will increase as we go down the road when we start doing things right,” said Cador.