DUDLEY, Mass. – Graduate student Nathaniel Cormier picked up two hits and drove in a pair of runs in Nichols College's 8-5 win over Worcester State University Monday afternoon in non-conference baseball action at the Nichols Baseball Field.

Senior DJ Caron plated two runs and scored twice for the Bison (18-19-1) while classmate Isaac Blanford sparked a four-run sixth inning with a single to left that scored two. Sophomore Johnny Knox laced an RBI single in the third before Cormier collected an RBI double in the sixth and lifted a sac fly to right in the eighth.

Senior Owen Sullivan moved to 3-1 on the season by striking out four in 1.1 innings of work over the fifth and sixth innings.  

Prior to the game, Nichols College honored longtime Nichols softball coach Kristan Mallet as she is stepping down to assume a full-time administrator in athletics. Joined by President Glenn Sulmasy, Vice President for Athletics Jack Hayes, and Director of Athletics Eric Gobiel, Mallet threw out the first pitch alongside her son, Cooper, to Blanford.