CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi baseball team showed the makings of a series-evening win until Nicholls completely switched up the tone and used a huge eighth inning to take game two of the weekend series 13-8 Friday night at Chapman Field.
The Islanders (13-18, 2-3 SLC) led it 5-2 through six before Nicholls (18-10, 2-3 SLC) not only tied the ballgame up in the seventh, but also tacked on the go-ahead run all in the same frame before running away with it with a seven-run eighth inning.
A hot shot from junior
Isaac Webb put him as the offensive driver tonight, as he blasted his first home run of the season in the eighth to get three runs back from Nicholls. He ended the night with five RBIs. Junior
Chance Reisdorph, who is coming off a 4-for-4 night in game one, notched another multi-hit night with two today. Senior
Cole Modgling also went 2-for-4 at the plate who two runs himself, as junior
Josh Blount also found home plate twice.
Despite a first pitch home run off the bat of Nicholls' lead-off, junior
Riely Hunsaker buckled down and kept the Colonels silent through the next four straight innings until another got past him in the sixth. He easily tossed over 100 pitches with five strikeouts before exiting in the seventh.
The Islanders quickly got that run back against Nicholls' starter Jacob Mayers. Back-to-back walks from senior
Sebastian Trinidad and junior
Garrett Gruell got two on before Reisdorph crept it fair and rolled it deep down the left line for the bases-clearing double.
Backing up their pitcher, the Islanders prevented the Colonels from responding with a sequence of second-inning defense. Gruell ran down the deep fly back to the corner to come up with the suspenseful out right before Trinidad spread out for the diving snag and quick release to first to save a potential extra-base line drive down left and get out of the inning instead.
The defenses battled until A&M-Corpus Christi finally got back it offensively in the fourth. Junior
Drake Kerr stayed disciplined and drew the walk before advancing on the base paths off the wild pitch. However, another pair of consecutive walks from Blount and Modgling loaded the bases regardless and a fortunate error by Nicholls scored Kerr and kept the bases stacked. Though, only one more could cross home again after Webb sent one deep enough to drive in Blount for the sacrifice fly.
Webb drove in another in the sixth after knocking one through the right side to score Modgling.
From there, Nicholls erupted to score 11 of their 13 final runs between innings seven and eight. It wasn't until the bottom of the eighth that the Islanders could respond at all when Webb sent his ball out of the park over the right center fence for the three-run homer.
The Islanders will now look to salvage the series tomorrow in game three, set for 1 p.m. back at Chapman Field.
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