MOBILE, Ala. - South Alabama (18-24) put together a complete performance on the mound with six pitchers combining for 12 strikeouts and only five hits allowed in the shutout over Nicholls (15-29).

Dalton Brooks earned the win with 5.0 innings with two hits allowed and six strikeouts, starting with three strikeouts in the first inning.

Lucas Ismaili led off the second inning with a solo home run off the first ball he saw, sending it 396 feet and giving the Jaguars an early lead.

Things stayed quiet from the third through the sixth innings, and South Alabama worked some pressure in the seventh inning, with three walks in a row. Ismaili came back up to the plate with bases loaded. A hard hit ball to third moved the runners for Ismaili's second RBI, but the Colonels moved a 5-6-3 play to keep him off the basepath.

From the pen, Sam Boardwine only allowed one hit, John Gillis only allowed two in his 1.2 innings, and Garfield Johns and Andrew Floyd each tossed 1.0 innings with no hits allowed.

Win: Dalton Brooks (2-1)
Save: Andrew Floyd (4)
Loss: Koen van 'T Klooster (0-6)

QUOTES
Head Coach Mark Calvi

On the pitching staff's performance tonight and the approach against Nicholl's pitching: Well, it's our second shutout. Not a lot of offense. Lucas got us on the board leading off the second with a big home run. And I'm like, okay, and then to their credit, we hit some balls hard. We had five or six hard balls that their guys that were in there for. Through the first they only had one walk through six innings, which kind of went against some of the guys that they were throwing; like they were a walk per inning. And I'm like, 'man, when's the free pass going to come?' The second guy, van 'T Klooster, and he walked one guy, the stats say he was gonna walk four or five, you know what I mean? And then you get into one, and it's a three-run home run, or a single that scores two, but he pitched extremely well tonight. He did tonight, what he hadn't done in the past. He was supposed to be the starter and they made a switch on the way over. So we told our guys, like, listen, let's, let's make him a fastball guy only until two strikes, because he, when he's got some walks. And as we watch, you know, I watched about 200 pitches on synergy, the strike percentage of his breaking ball was low, non swinging, like called strikes were low. So I'm like, if we can force him, he's still gonna throw his breaking ball, but let's lay out. And then he started landing it and kind of put us in that. You don't want to sit up there and be oh two. He just, he mixed his slider and his curveball well, back-doored his slider, and give the kid credit, he pitched well. Their guys pitched well, but our guys, man, I can't say enough about Dalton Brooks and our bullpen. You know, our plan was, you know, (Jacob) Haley in the sixth, and then one of the lefties in the seventh, and then to Gillis, and then to Floyd. And as you know, you've been around the game, sometimes plans, plan A is not there. So that was our plan. It didn't work. But John Gillis came in, you know, a runner on second base, I believe, so he had some traffic, and Gillis was just nasty. DB had a little bit of traffic that he had to work around, you know, if he could just clean up the walks, he's hard to hit. You know, he's hard to hit, if he can just clean up the walks, the free passes. But our pitching staff was absolutely phenomenal tonight, even Boardwine. Boardwine hasn't been on the mound since Arkansas State, I don't believe, and it was a pick off. He was fantastic. It's not easy to do. Now he's throwing in some intersquads and things like that in between to get some time. But, man, I can't say enough about our pitching staff tonight. You know, we did enough offensively. It was a clean game. So, aside from DB's walks, he was phenomenal tonight. But aside from the walks, our pitchers, they did exactly what we needed, and we played really good defense behind them, and I thought Duncan Matthews was exceptional behind the plate tonight as well.

UP NEXT
South Alabama is set to host their antepenultimate series of the regular season with No. 20 Troy coming to town. First pitch for the first game is currently set for 6:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2.

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