March 21, 2008

Box Score

McNeese State used another first inning three run home run - this one by shortstop Shon Landry - in turning back Nicholls State by a 4-1 score here Friday.

On Thursday a three run first inning home run by Taylor Freeman had set the pace for the Cowboys in a 6-3 victory over the Colonels.

It was the second straight win for McNeese which is now 5-14 overall and 2-3 in league play. Nicholls fell to 4-15 and to 1-4.

The two teams play the final game of their series beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

While the Cowboy hitters were getting timely hits and runs, righthander Scott Holstein was turning in another good start. He hurled seven innings of two hit, one run ball while walking one and striking out two.

"We got another good start from a pitcher," Cowboy head coach Terry Burrows said of Holstein. "It was also one of the better games that we have played on defense this season. Getting those three runs in that first inning was a big help and I was also very pleased with the way that Jonathan Conrad came on out of the bull pen."

Conrad hurled the final two innings, tossing goose eggs and earning his first save of the season.

Scott Holstein pitches the Cowboys to victory.

Holstein picked up his first pitching victory of the year against three setbacks.

Ryan Myers started for the Colonels and hurled five innings, giving up all four Cowboy runs along with six hits while walking two and striking out three. He's now 0-1 on the season.

The Cowboys did not make an error during the game and made the night's only double play.

Landry's first inning home run was his fifth of the season. It cleared the centerfield fence and drove in Mace Hebert who had walked and Sam Merrill who had singled.

The Cowboys other run came in the fourth with a single by Josh Cholley plating Jordan Venable who had taken first after being hit by a pitched ball. Bryn Thompson singled him to second and he came home on Cholley's hit.

Nicholls got its only run in the seventh on a single by Brandt Boudreaux.

Landry was the only Cowboy batter to get more than one hit and he was two for four and he also had two stolen bases. Merrill, Freeman, Keith Patnode, Venable, Thompson and Cholley had the other hits.

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Nicholls State 000 000 100 - 1-2-0

McNeese State 300 100 00x - 4-8-0

Bryan Myers, Jacob Sullivan (6), Justin Breaux (6), Lance Guidroz (7) and Brett Cook. Scott Holstein, Jonathan Conrad (8) and Taylor Freeman. W-Holstein (1-3). L-Myers (0-1)

Home run: (McNeese) Shon Landry

Mace Hebert (3) and Shon Landry (7) celebrate the latter's three run homer in the first inning of Friday's 4-1 victory over Nicholls State