THIBODAUX, La. – The Nicholls State University baseball team unveiled its schedule for the upcoming season, featuring 31 regular-season home games at Ben Meyer Diamond at Ray E. Didier Field and a neutral-site contest against Southern Miss.
The game against the Golden Eagles is slated for March 26 in Metairie at the Shrine on Airline, the home of the New Orleans Baby Cakes.
The Colonels’ season will commence with nine straight home matchups, beginning with a non-conference set against Southern Illinois on Feb. 15-17. The team will then take on Alcorn State twice and Grambling in a three-game series ahead of an in-state battle on Feb. 26 against Tulane.
Road play begins in Lake Charles on March 1 with a non-conference matchup against McNeese. The Colonels will compete in a doubleheader versus Holy Cross and McNeese on March 3 before returning home on March 5 to face UL-Lafayette, who finished the 2018 season on top of the Sun Belt Conference’s western division.
The Colonels start their longest road stretch on March 10 against UNO. The team is then scheduled to travel to Arkansas-Pine Bluff followed by a conference set against Central Arkansas. Nicholls concludes its six-game road swing with a much-anticipated March 20 contest in Baton Rouge against LSU.
The Colonels then head to Natchitoches on April 5-7 to take on Northwestern State, the 2018 Southland Conference Tournament Champions, ahead of non-conference home sets against Mississippi Valley State (April 9-10) and San Jose State (April 26-28).
Nicholls concludes regular-season play with a SLC series against Abilene Christian.
The Colonels, under head coach Seth Thibodeaux, enter the 2019 season off a 28-32 overall record, including 14-16 in conference play. The 2018 season saw the team take down College World Series participant Mississippi State and Purdue, a Chapel Hill regional squad, before heading to its first Southland Conference Tournament semifinal appearance since 2011.
The 2019 Southland Conference Tournament is scheduled for May 22-25 in Sugar Land, Texas.
