Recap
The Nichols College baseball team took both games on Sunday in at Lake Myrtle Park in Auburndale, Florida in non-conference action.
 
Game One – Nichols 6, Keuka 2 (11 inn.)
Sophomore DJ Caron and senior Christian Naccari both picked up a pair of hits for the Bison who rallied in extra innings to defeat the Wolves (0-1). The story of the game was the Bison's pitching staff, who combined for 13 strikeouts, and one walk (intentional). Freshman Kyle McCutcheon went seven innings, while giving up nine hits, and striking out 10 Wolves. McCutcheon ended his outing by getting out of a first and third situation with the game knotted at two apiece by striking out the side.

Junior Robert Cobb then came in for relief pitching two scoreless innings to help the Bison force extras. Sophomore Brendan Duffy came out for the 10th inning, where he was faced with a bases loaded one out situation. Duffy struck out Brooks Vertoske, before inducing a ground ball to short to end the Keuka threat.

The Nichols offense rewarded Duffy by exploding for a four-run top of the 11th, highlighted by single to to leftfield by freshman Will Kleinhenz, scoring Caron on the play to give the Bison the 3-2 lead. Duffy then came in to finish off the game, setting the Wolves down in four to pick up his third win of the season.
 
Game Two – Nichols 11, Clarkson 6
The Bison improved to 3-0 on the Spring trip, and 2-0 on Sunday with the five-run win over the Knights (2-6). Nichols was led offensively by Caron who went 3-for-3 at the dish, while driving in three runs and scoring two himself. Caron doubled to center field in the second inning, scoring sophomores Isaac Blanford and Patrick Chen See to knot the game at three runs each.

The Knights fought back after the Bison took a 5-3 lead in the second with back-to-back SAC flys from Mike Nee and Ernesto Ruiz-Sierra in the third inning to bring the score to 5-5 at the time. Nichols responded in the fourth with a SAC fly from Naccari, scoring Blanford to give the Bison the lead, in which they never looked back, putting up a four spot in the fourth inning, en-route to the 11-6 victory.

Freshman Jack Kabel earned his first collegiate win in the game, after coming in for relief in the fourth inning. Kabel struck out five batters, and only allowing three hits in four innings of work. Classmate Patrick Sawyer came in to finish the final two innings, striking out four, and allowing only two hits.
 
Next Game
Monday, March 16 vs Keene St., 1:00 p.m. (Lake Myrtle Park)