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Wednesday, March 22, 2000

Islanders fall to Nicholls State, 9-2

THIBODAUX, LA. --- Nicholls State's Kevin Larpenter and Jason Wilkerson combined to register a 6 for 9 effort to lead the Colonels to a 9-2 victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Tuesday evening at Didier Field.
   Nicholls State, now 10-14 on the season, jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first two innings. The Colonels plated their first run of the game on a fielding miscue by the Islanders. Larpenter gave NSU a three-run cushion with a two-run single in the second.
   The Islanders cut the deficit to 3-2 in the top of the third. A&M-Corpus Christi put together a string of five-consecutive hits to plate the two runs. Chad Gilpin (San Antonio, Tex.) began the inning with a double. After a bunt single by Bryan Coleman (Houston, Tex.), Ryan Spaeny (Hutchinson, Kan.) knocked in the first run for the Islanders with a single to leftfield. Michael Chavez (Corpus Christi, Tex.) drove in Coleman with the final run on a single to left.
   The Colonels put the game out of reach with a three-run bottom of the eighth. Wilkerson keyed the inning with a two-run blast over the leftfield fence for his third "round-tripper" of the year.
   Eric Walker pitched 4.2 innings of relief to up his record to 1-0, while A&M-Corpus Christi starter Shawn Morgan (Boswell, Tex.) was tagged with the loss after scattering 13 hits and seven earned runs over 7.1 innings of work. The junior fell to 1-6 on the campaign.
   The Islanders, 12-16 on the year, will get another crack at Nicholls State, Wednesday evening in a single game beginning at 6:30 p.m.
  

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