WESTFIELD, Mass. – The Nichols College baseball team cruised to an 11-2 victory over Westfield State University on Tuesday afternoon in non-league action in Westfield, Mass.
 
The Bison wrap up the season at 13-26 overall, while the Owls drop to 21-15-1 with the loss.
 
Current Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Player of the Week and senior Cam Cook went 3-for-6 with a pair of RBI and two runs scored to lead the Bison. Classmate Nick Roy went 2-for-5 with two runs and an RBI, while sophomore Kyle Bouchard went 4-for-5 with two RBI. Sophomore Christian Naccari also had a multi-hit day, going 3-for-5 with a run scored.
 
Senior Chris Anderson went 1-for-5 with two RBI, with freshman Nathaniel Cormier (1-for-3, run), Alexander Stroshine (1-for-2, two runs), and Riley Parent (1-for-3, RBI, two runs) also registering hits. Sophomore Ryan Nesbit recorded a hit in his only at-bat and scored a run.
 
The Nichols pitching staff combined to scatter eight hits while allowing only two runs in 9.0 innings of work. The five seniors on the pitching staff pitched the first five innings of the game, with Anthony D'Agnone giving up a hit and a walk in an inning, Jackson White giving up one hit and picking up a strikeout in the win, Vincent Amato tossing two perfect innings, and StigErik McElhinney giving up a walk and a hit in an inning.
 
Nichols raced out to a 7-0 lead through the sixth inning as the Bison scored three times in the top of the third on an RBI single by Cook and two-run single by Anderson, and doubled their lead to 6-0 in the top of the fourth on an RBI double by Bouchard, a sac fly from Roy, and Parent scoring on a wild pitch. Bouchard extended the lead to 7-0 with an RBI single in the top of the sixth to plate Roy.
 
The Owls would answer with a run in both the sixth and eighth innings to make it 7-2, but the Bison would plate four runs in the top of the ninth to pull away for the victory. Naccari would score on an error before Parent worked a bases loaded walk, and two runs would come across on a Cook RBI single and an error that allowed a second run to cross.
 
All-Time Series
Tuesday marked the 36th meeting between the two teams, with Nichols grabbing its second-straight win in the series, but the Owls lead the all-time matchup 25-10-1.