Texas-San Antonio sweeps NSU

Texas-San Antonio outlasted Nicholls 5-2 Sunday afternoon to complete a three-game series sweep.

Nicholls falls to 9-42 (4-23 SLC), while UTSA clinches the regular season Southland Conference Championship with the win, improving to 37-14 (21-6 SLC).

Justin Breaux (2-6) took the loss giving up three runs (two earned) through three innings of relief work.

Colonel starter John Beauchamp went five innings, allowing two runs on three hits, fanning one and walking three.

Roadrunner pitchers scattered eight Colonels hits through nine innings.

With the game tied at two, Texas-San Antonio led off the bottom of the sixth inning with back-to-back-to-back base hits, plating two runs for a 4-2 lead.

The Roadrunners took advantage of a NSU error and added an insurance run in the eighth, to make it a 5-2 game.

Walter Jones went 2-for-4, the only Colonel with a multi-hit game. Brett Cook went 1-for-2 with two walks.

The Colonels wrap up the 2008 season at Ray E. Didier Field, hosting Southeastern Louisiana in the final series of the season. The first game of the series will take place on Thursday.

Colonels’ records fall at track

and field championships

Nicholls may have finished last in the Southland Conference Track and Field Championships, but five more school records fell and one tied last weekend.

The team earned 14 points against the 11 schools competing in women’s events at the meet hosted by Sam Houston State.

Freshman Imma Kosgei had the best individual showing among the team placing fourth in 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:44:76, second best in Nicholls State history.

The 4×400 relay team of junior LeShea Jenkins, senior La-Nation McCray, sophomore Marion Chebet and freshman Ashley Carpenter broke the previous NSU mark by over four seconds with a time of 3:53:73 to place eighth.

The 4×100 relay team of McCray, Carpenter, and freshmen Alycia Johnson and Tiffany Nall took nearly two seconds off the old school record with a time of 47:01 to finish seventh in the event.

Nall tied Trionne Burrell NSU’s 100-meter dash record with a time of 12:04.

Carpenter removed Burrell’s 200-meter dash record with a time of 24:94.

Sophomore Rahjanaye Bailey set a new Nicholls record in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.83, while senior Dominique Harris’ 14:94 was good for third best ever.

Sophomore Sabrina Henkes set a new school mark in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:04.77. Bailey’s 1:06.26 places her third all-time.

Chebet ran the second fastest time in school history in the 800-meter run at 2:18:95. In the 10,000-meter run, junior Charlotte Everhardt ran NSU’s second-fastest time ever with a 39:33:44.

Nicholls’ Walter Jones went 2-for-4, providing the Colonels with their only multi-hit game against Texas-San Antonio. * Photo by KEYON JEFF