Courtesy of LA Tech Athletic Communications
Both the Louisiana Tech baseball and softball teams will play at home tonight as the Diamond Dogs host Nicholls State in the first of back-to-back midweeks with the Colonels while the Tech softballers host Stephen F. Austin.
First pitch for tonight’s baseball game is set for 6 p.m. CT at JC Love Field at Pat Patterson Park. The contest can be heard on 97.7 FM and seen on ESPN+.
Tech leads the all-time series with Nicholls State 19-15, including a 10-7 victory in the last meeting last season. Tech has won two straight against the Colonels.
The last time Nicholls beat Tech at the Love Shack was in 2023, when the Colonels shut out the ‘Dogs 8-0 despite Tech already having won the series. The last time Nicholls won consecutive games on the Bulldogs’ home field dates back to 2002, which Tech then followed with a seven-game winning streak in the series.
Nicholls enters the midweek series with a 5-7 record and are 0-3 in Southland Conference play. The Colonels have dropped their last five games after sweeping a weekend series at home against Little Rock in February. The ball club is led by first-year head coach Brent Haring who is also in his first year in a head coaching position.
The Colonels entered 2025 coming off a season where then-head coach Mike Silva led Nicholls to its second-straight 30-win season, as well as the program’s second-straight Southland Conference tournament title and third overall. Silva also led the team to back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances which were the program’s fourth and fifth all-time appearances.
Bulldog softball will host SFA at 6 p.m. at Dr. Billy Bundrick Field and the game can be seen on ESPN+.
Tonight’s contest will be the 70th all-time meeting between LA Tech and SFA. The two schools first met in 1980, with SFA winning the first three matchups. This will be the first game between the two schools since the 2022 season when LA Tech earned an 11-4 victory over the Lumberjacks in the Best on the Bayou Tournament in Monroe.
Tech (10-9) won three of five games this past weekend at the Southern Miss Black and Gold Challenge where the Bulldogs picked up two wins over UAPB, and one win over Southern Miss, while dropping two games to Lamar.
The Lumberjacks (9-10) posted a 5-0 record in the Mardi Gras Mambo in Youngsville this past weekend. SFA defeated Iowa State 4-3 in eight innings to start the event on Friday, followed by a 2-0 win over Monmouth on Friday evening. SFA took down Army 14-1 in five innings in their first game on Saturday and followed that up with a 13-0 win over West Georgia. The Lumberjacks won their fifth straight after defeating Maine 9-7 on Sunday.
