For the second straight outing it was come-from-behind victory for Louisiana as the Ragin’ Cajuns topped Nicholls State 5-4 in the opening game of a midweek, home-and-home series Tuesday evening at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field.

On Sunday it was a two-out RBI double in the seventh by Jordan Poirrier that lifted UL to a win in the series finale with Southeast Missouri. Tuesday night Greg Fontenot provided the two-out magic to move the Ragin’ Cajuns (2-2) to the .500 mark on the season.

With two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning and bases loaded, Fontenot punched a single up the middle and through the infield to plate Poirrier with the tying run and Daniel Nichols with the decisive tally.

Fontenot’s game-winner pulled Louisiana out of a 4-3 deficit and made a winner out of reliever Taylor Hubbell who entered the game with one out in the first inning and pitched the final 8 2/3 innings.

The two teams will meet in Thibodaux on Wednesday at Ray Didier Field with first pitch slated for 6 p.m. Jordan Nicholson, a transfer from LSU, makes his Cajuns debut on the mound and he’ll be opposed by Nicholls’ Dalton Torres.

This was the second extensive relief effort by Hubbell. On Friday, the senior from Scottsdale, Ariz., tossed 4 1/3 innings of shutout baseball against SEMO. He held Nicholls (1-3) to one run on seven hits and struck out five.

Fontenot topped the Cajuns lineup with two runs scored and two RBI. He posted a three-hit performance for the second straight outing (3-for-4 in SEMO finale).

Louisiana extended its current win streak over Nicholls to seven games, a streak which dates back to 2006.

The Cajuns have now won the past 13 meetings with the Colonels at "The Tigue" and haven’t suffered a setback to Nicholls in the facility since April 1995.

Senior right-handed pitcher Michael Cook wouldn’t make it out of the first inning of his 2011 season debut, being lifted after the Colonels scored three quick runs.

A pair of walks and a double loaded the base for the Colonels with no outs. Cook induced a groundout to third base off the bat of Beau Faulk for a force play at home, however back-to-back singles from Jeremy Hill and Blake Bergeron plated three runs.

Hubbell relieved Cook and recorded back-to-back outs to put an end to the Colonels’ early uprising.

Double plays turned by the Nicholls defense in the first two innings kept the Cajuns off the scoreboard until the third inning.

Fontenot doubled to lead off the Cajuns’ half of the third inning and moved up an extra base on a Mike Wisecarver wild pitch. Two batters later Fontenot scored on a Ryan Leonards sacrifice fly cutting the Nicholls lead to 3-1.

The Colonels snuck across an additional run in the fifth inning with two outs when Poirrier broke in the opposite direction of a grounder off the bat of Mace Krol.

The Cajuns picked the run back up in the bottom half of the inning when Fontenot scored on a Michael Strentz double.

Fontenot’s third hit of the contest vaulted the Cajuns into their first lead of the night and completed the Cajuns second consecutive come-from-behind triumph.

BASES NOTED: Tuesday’s game marked the 116^th meeting in the Cajuns-Colonels series, the fifth-most played series in school history…The Cajuns are 18-10 vs. Nicholls in the Tony Robichaux Era…Louisiana leads the all-time series 66-49-1…Senior right handed pitcher Michael Cook made his 31^st career start…Brian Bowman (center field) and Daniel Nichols (left field) made their first starts of the 2011 season…Alex Fuselier and Mike Petello, normally in left and center field, had the night off…Nichols, who missed all but six games in 2010 due to injury, made his first start since starting against Nicholls in Thibodaux last season (Feb. 21)…The Colonels’ three runs in the first inning marked the fourth time in as many games this season that UL has allowed a run in the first inning…Opponents are outscoring UL 9-0 in the first inning…Greg Fontenot posted his second multiple-hit game of the season and 44^th of his career, going 3-for-3 with the game-winning RBI.

— Ragin’ Cajuns —