Bland gets thrown out at home on the fielder's choice, bases still loaded with 2 outs.

#10 Owen Hooper (Fr.) gets hit by the pitch! forcing a run in.

6-5 SFA

#5 River Curs (Jr.) flies out,

we go to the bottom of the 11th with the Jacks holding a 6-5 lead, #7 Elian Balmaceda (Sr.) back out to try and but it away with the Nicholls' meat of the order on deck.

#7 Elian Balmaceda (Sr.) quickly ahead in the count 0-2

oh!, then he hits the batter, runner on at 1st.

Next batter grounds out on a sac bunt, runner advances to 2nd.

1 away

batter flies out to 2nd base.

2 away

sorry quickly down in the count 3-1

full count with the pay off pitch!

wild pitch runner advances to 3rd and batter gets the walk, runners at the corners

Batter singles, a runner scores.

6-6

Now, Elian gets the K!

to the 12th

#1 Cemodrick Bland (Fr.) on at 1st with the single

and yet another steal, 6th of the day!

The NCAA record is 7, it was set in 2019.

Ibe with the 2 out single, runners at 1st and 2nd Henning up.

Grounds out

to the bottom of the 12th

The NCAA Division I baseball record for stolen bases in a single game by one person is 7, set by Bradon O'Connor of Benedict College against LeMoyne-Owen in 2019.

But this is extra innings, so it might not count.

I'm thinking the Alcorn State game will get cancelled if this keeps going.

fly out, 1 away, Elian still on the mound

2 away

runner on at 1st after yet another 2 out single

This Nicholls team will not die!

winning run now in scoring position after stealing 2nd

ground out, to the 13th

Swift to 1st on a single (4 hits on the day for the Timberwolf)

Duran grounds out, Swift to 2nd

Hoop strikes out 2 away

#9 Jackson Benattar (Jr.) in for River Curs

and he gets K'ed

to the bottom of the 13th

#8 Reid Boyett (Sr.) now in

Nicholls with the 1 out single

2 away

another single runners at 1st and 2nd

Nicholls with the double, runner scores, ball game 7-6

What a heart breaker

SFA:6 (11-29; 3-18)
Nicholls:7 (15-25; 8-16)
Final (13 innings)

SFA 6 runs off of 13 hits
Nicholls 7 runs off of 16 hits with 2 errors

What a game, unfortunately the Jacks come out on the short end of the stick with another heart breaker in extra innings.

After Nicholls took the lead 5-4 in the bottom of the 5th, Lumberjack pitching held the Colonels scoreless through the next 5 innings, when the Jacks took a 6-5 lead in the top of the 11th and were just 1 strike away from closing it out for the victory, when Nicholls struck again, scoring in the bottom of the 11th to send the game on further into extra innings, where they ultimately won the game on a 2 out double.

#1 Cemodrick Bland (Fr.) continues his late season surge with 2 hits, 2 runs, 3 walks, and a new school record 6 stolen bases. (9 total from the team)

Also, give it up for #24 Julian Swift (Jr.) who impressed with 4 hits, 1 run, 1 walk, and 3 RBI's.

The Jacks head further east across the Mississippi (maybe) into Lorman for a non-conference game against Alcorn State before heading back home.

SFAJack_76 said:

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jboy93 said:

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I'm not sure but I have have missed this before but I just confirmed that we have plans in place for baseball and softball to move to an on campus site sooner rather than later. The land is designated already. Is this old news?

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Neither new nor old news. Like all athletic facilities, baseball and softball are part of the University master plan expected to be completed in November. There are some potential athletics facilities lay outs being worked on that most of the athletic staff has seen. Next steps are to consolidate the various parts of the master plan that are being worked on simultaneously. Once the master plan is complete, funding has to be raised. Funding for athletic facilities is different than for academics. There is no UT System magic pot of money for athletics.

There is a lot more work to be done before there are shovels in the ground for any of it.

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So I have a question hopefully you can answer

If SFA was or is looking at new athletics stuff like fields etc and also academic expenses and or growth like new forms or classrooms etc and is having to raise money to pay for all this on both athletics and academic side it would limit how much can be spent in each area obviously since money is coming from one source to pay for all the wish list items on both sides

Now if Texas comes along and says hey we will give you money but only for academic side of things then what would keep SFA from using some of their own money they were going to have to use on academics and move that to athletics stuff since the horns decided to help on academic side?