Box Score THIBODAUX – McNeese scored seven runs in the final two innings, including four in the top of the ninth, as the Cowboys rallied from a 3-0 deficit to defeat Nicholls 7-3 on Tuesday night in a mid-week, non-conference baseball game.
 
McNeese improved to 31-16 on the year while Nicholls fell to 28-19.
 
Trailing 3-0 going to the eighth, McNeese's late-game rally started when Ben David walked to start the inning. He eventually found himself on third with two outs and when Josh Leslie put McNeese on the board with a two-run home run, his seventh of the season and tying him for the team lead.
 
Tré Obregon III followed with a single and advanced to second on a throwing error by the Nicholls catcher. A Brad Burckel RBI single scored Obregon to tie the game 3-3 before the Colonels we able to escape the inning.
 
The ninth inning was a wild one, literally for the home team Colonels.
 
Payton Harden walked then stole second. Cooper Hext was then hit-by-a-pitch to put runners on first and second. David followed with a bunt in the direction of second base but there was no Colonel player in the area to field the ball so David reach on a single while Harden rounded third and scored to put the Cowboys on top 4-3.
 
Following a pitching change, Chase Keeton popped an RBI single that scored Hext and made it a 5-3 lead. The lead grew to 6-3 when David scored on a throwing error by the Nicholls pitcher on a throw-over to first base that was so far off the mark, Keeton was able to advance to third. Then on the next pitch to Ben Duhon, which was ball four, the pitch was in the dirt and allowed Keeton to score on the wild throw to make it a 7-3 advantage.
 
Meanwhile, relief pitcher Brock Barthelemy earned the win to improve to 3-0 on the season after throwing three shutout and hitless innings while striking out three – all three of those in the bottom of the ninth to slam the door shut on the win.
 
Kainin Morrow started the game for the Cowboys and threw three innings, giving up three runs two earned, on three hits. JT Moeller threw the next three innings and was fantastic on the mound. Moeller tossed perfect ball in those three stanzas, striking out five in the process.
 
The Cowboys will return to Southland Conference action this weekend when they visit Northwestern State in their final league series of the season.