Baseball Returns Home to Host Nicholls On Tuesday

Tuesday, March 31

New Orleans, LA

6:30 p.m.

Tulane University

Nicholls

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Baseball Returns Home to Host Nicholls On Tuesday

Mar 30, 2026 | Baseball

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TULANE GAME NOTES

NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane baseball team (14-15, 2-4 American) after a brief three-game conference set in Birmingham, Alabama over the weekend, returns home to host Nicholls (14-15) in a non-game contest on Tuesday, March 31 on Greer Field at Turchin Stadium. Game time is 6:30 p.m.

Media
The game against Nicholls will be broadcasted on ESPN +. The Voice of the Green Wave, Corey Gloor, will call the action on the Tulane Sports Network from Learfield on WRBH 88.3 FM/ Varsity Network on Tuesday. Airtime for the radio/stream for the game is 15 minutes before first pitch.

Pitching Matchup
Neither team has announced the team's probable starting pitcher for the midweek non-conference game.

Scouting Nicholls
The Colonels lost two of three conference games over the weekend against Northwestern State.

Caston Thompson has led the offensive attack this season with his .340 batting average, 21 runs, 36 hits, six doubles, eight home runs, and 23 RBIs.

Nico Rijo-Berger sports a .316 batting average with 25 hits plus three home runs and 16 RBIs.

Greyson Shafer is hitting .293 with 27 hits, six doubles, five home runs, and 21 RBIs.

Keegan Giger leads the squad with eight stolen bases to go along with four home runs and 24 RBIs.

Tyler Avery is 2-0 with 15 strikeouts in 18.1 innings worked in 11 games with a 0.98 ERA

Dalton Hill sports a 1.80 ERA with 12 strikeouts in 10 innings worked.

Nicholls went 17-32 last season

The program is coached by Brent Haring. Haring is in his second year with the Colonels.

Series History
Tulane leads the all-time series with Nicholls 69-28. The Green Wave defeated the Colonels in all three matchups last year by 13-3, 9-5 and 9-4 scores, but fell to Nicholls by a 6-5 margin earlier this season on the road (3/3).

Against the Southland Conference
The home game against Nicholls is the fourth of seven games against a Southland Conference opponent this season for Tulane. The program went 5-4 against Southland Conference (SLC) opponents last season and have started this year's games against SLC opponents with a 1-2 mark with both losses coming on the road. The school's all-time mark is 309-168 against current schools in the SLC.

Coming In On A Streak
Jason Wachs, despite seeing his hitting streak snapped at 23 games following the opening game of the season against LMU, has still now reached base safely in 55 consecutive games dating back to the end of last season.

Who's Hot in the Last Five Games
Nate Johnson is hitting .444 with eight hits, five runs, a home run, and 10 RBIs.

Hugh Pinkney sports a .385 batting average with three runs and five hits.

Trent Liolios is hitting .375 with four runs, six hits, three doubles, seven RBIs, and five walks

Kaikea Harrison has scored four runs with six hits.

Tye Wood has walked six times and scored six runs.

Jack Brafa is 1-0 with 0.00 ERA in 4.0 innings pitched.

Jude Abbadessa has pitched in three games and is 1-0 with 2.45 ERA in 7.1 innings worked.

Beau Sampson has pitched 3.1 innings with seven strikeouts and a 2.45 ERA.

Tom Vincent has struck out four in 1.2 innings worked with only one hit allowed.

Trends
Dating back to the end of last season, three of last six hits that James Agabedis III has are home runs.

Jason Wachs has reached base safely in all 29 games this season

Tanner Chun has reached base safely in 15 straight games.

Tye Wood has reached base safely in 14 consecutive games.

Nate Johnson is hitting .356 with three home runs and 24 RBIs in the games he starts this year.

Kaikea Harrison leads the team with 10 multiple run scored games.

Tulane sports an 11-7 record this year in games that Hugh Pinkney starts behind the plate.

The program is also 3-1 in games that Matthias Haas starts as the designated hitter.

Haas has started at four different positions this season with five games at first, eight games at third, eight games in right field, and four games as the designated hitter.

Nate Johnson has started at three different spots on the infield with seven starts at first, eight at second, and three at third. He also has batted in seven different spots in the starting lineup order (3rd - 9th).

Tye Wood (LF), Kaikea Harrison (SS) and Tanner Chun (CF) are the only three players on the team to start all the team's games at the same position all season long.

Wood and Nate Johnson are tied for the club lead with nine two-out RBIs.

Nolan Nawrocki, Brett Rowell, and James Agabedis have the team's only successful pinch hits on the year.

After leading the American Conference last season with 131 doubles as team, Tulane is again among the leaders this season and are currently the league leader in two-baggers with 65 in the first 29 games.

The Green Wave lead the conference in walks (170) and are third in stolen bases (46).

Tulane is third in hit by pitches (46) and fifth in fielding percentage (.972)

The program's pitching is averaging an impressive 9.6 strikeouts per game to place fourth in the American Conference. Tulane ranked second in the league in strikeouts a year ago with an average of 9.8 per contest.

The Tulane pitching staff has recorded 12 games with double figure strikeout totals this season.

The program is third in shutouts (1) and seventh in ERA (5.07).

Of the 23 new players on the roster this season, 19 have already made their Tulane debuts following the first 26 games of the season. The only newbies that haven't appeared in a game yet this season are RHP Max Mazinter, OF Cole Berge, OF/3B Matthew Major, and RHP Owen Geiss.

Individual Conference Leaders
Tanner Chun leads the American Conference in hit by pitches (11) and walks (30). He is also sixth in stolen bases (11) and tied with Kaikea Harrison for third in doubles (9).

Harrison is seventh in runs scored (31).

Jason Wachs leads the conference in doubles (10) and eighth in RBIs (29).

Jack Frankel leads in complete games with one.

Sam Larson leads in appearances (15). Jude Abbadessa is third in appearances (14).

J.D. Rodriguez is tied for ninth in appearances (12) along with Jake Toporek and Blaise Wilcenski.

Tye Wood is third sacrifice flies (4), sixth in hit by pitches (9) plus ninth in walks (21).

Tom Vincent is eighth in saves (2).

Trey Cehajic is tied for the lead in starts (7).

Notables from UAB Series - 3/27-29
Tulane was swept by the Blazers losing three road games by a total of seven runs (9-6, 7-4, and 5-4).

It was only the second time that Tulane was swept in a three-game set this season.

Additionally it was only the fourth time that Tulane has been swept in a conference series since the start of the 2024 campaign.

Michael Devenney 2.1 innings thrown in the first game (3/27) was a career-high.

Tulane has now lost the first game of a weekend series in each of the last four opportunities

The 12 walks allowed by Tulane's pitching staff in the second game (3/28) was tied for a season-high (vs. Eastern Kentucky – 2/28)

The loss in the bottom of the ninth against the Blazers (3/29) was the first time the program has suffered a loss of that nature all season long.

The two runs allowed to UAB in the ninth inning in the final game (3/29) were only the third and fourth the team has surrendered in the ninth inning this season.

The Green Wave are now 47-27 all-time against UAB.

Green Wave Chosen For Fourth and Has Two Named Preseason All-Conference
In a vote of the league's coaches, Tulane was picked for fourth and had two players selected as American Preseason All-Conference. The Green Wave were chosen for fourth overall with 57 points. The team also saw outfielder Jason Wachs and designated hitter Matthias Haas chosen as Preseason American All-Conference.

The 2026 Schedule
The Green Wave hosts 27 games at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium, along with one neutral-site game in Mississippi and 28 road contests in 2026. Tulane will compete across seven states, including matchups in California, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Kansas, Florida, and North Carolina. Notable opponents include seven teams that participated in the 2025 NCAA Tournament: Southern Miss (2 games), UTSA (3), Creighton (3), East Carolina (3), TCU (3), Mississippi State (1), UCLA (1), and LSU (1).

The 2026 Schedule - Part Two
Tulane is playing games against five teams this season that are ranked in the USA Today's Preseason Coaches' Poll in No. 1 LSU, No. 2 UCLA, No. 6 Mississippi State, No. 10 TCU, and No. 20 Southern Miss.

Uncommon Road Start
Tulane's start on the road this season is the first for the program since 2023 and only the 11th time since 1979 the program has not started the season with games in New Orleans (1979, 1980, 1982, 1993, 2002, 2006, 2013, 2015, 2023, and 2026)

A Brotherly Connection
Tulane has a pair of brothers on the 2026 roster in sophomore infielder Nate Johnson and graduate student infielder Jake Johnson. The two are Tulane's first set of brothers on a team since 2017 when twins Paul Gozzo, a catcher, and Sal Gozzo, an infielder, were playing for the Green Wave. The 2016 team also had brothers on the squad in Ross Massey, a left-handed pitcher, and Alex Massey, a right-handed pitcher.

Who is Back?
The Green Wave return 14 players from the 2025 squad that a made a run to the 2025 American Championship Game for the third straight season this season in James Agabedis (infielder), Kaikea Harrison (infielder), Matthias Haas (infielder/outfielder), Tanner Chun (outfielder), Julius Ejike-Charles (left-handed pitcher/outfielder), Jason Wachs (outfielder), Hugh Pinkney (catcher), J.D. Rodriguez (right-handed pitcher), Nate Johnson (infielder), Will Clements (right-handed pitcher), Michael Devenney (right-handed pitcher), Jacob Moore (right-handed pitcher), Blaise Wilcenski (right handed pitcher), and Trey Cehajic (right-handed pitcher)

Inside the Numbers of the Returners
The team's 14 returning players accounted for 52.7 percent of the runs (204/387), 53 percent of the hits (287/541), 55 percent of the doubles (72/131), 58 percent of the triples (7/12), 45 percent of the home runs (23/51), 49 percent of the RBIs (178/360), 52 percent of the total bases (442/849) and 55 percent of the walks (159/287). On the mound, the club returns 48.4 percent of the wins (16/33), 53 percent of the game started (31/58), 43 percent of the innings (212/532) and 34 percent of the strikeouts (308/547).

Newcomers
Tulane added 23 new players to the roster this year. The list includes seven graduate students (Tye Wood, Brett Rowell, Trent Liolios, Jack Johnson, Jake Toporek, Tom Vincent and Aidan Rath), a senior (Nolan Nawrocki), seven juniors (Jude Abbadessa, Sam Larson, Caden Tarango, Jack Brafa, Beau Sampson, Owen Geiss, and Max Maxinter), four sophomores (AJ Groeneveld, Jack Frankel, Johnny Elliott, and LuisPablo Navarro) and four true freshmen (Bryson Ayala, Cole Berge, Evan Burg and Matthew Major).

The 2025 Season Quick Hitters
Tulane went 33-25 last season and had five American All-Conference selections on the year in Michael Lombardi (P – 1st), Connor Rasmussen (2B – 1st), Gavin Schulz (DH – 2nd), Jason Wachs (All-Freshman) and Tanner Chun (All-Freshman). The five selections are tied with the 2024 team for the most for the program since 2016 (seven).
The team also had three chosen for the league's All-Tournament Team in Schulz, Tayler Montiel and Theo Bryant IV plus a pair on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA) All-State Team in Lombardi and Rasmussen.

Additionally, the program had three players selected in the 2025 MLB Draft in Lombardi (Kansas City Royals – 2nd round), Montiel (Arizona Diamondbacks – 12th round), and Rasmussen (Kansas City Royals – 15th round).

2025 Fun Stat Facts
Jason Wachs was ninth in the conference in batting average (.335) and on-base percentage (.457). Wachs and Tanner Chun were tied for 10th in the league in triples (2). Matthias Haas ranked second in the conference in doubles (21) and 26th in batting average (.303). Kaikea Harrison was tied for the conference lead in sacrifice bunts (8) and 38th in batting average (.283). Trey Cehajic and Blaise Wilcenski were tied for 10th in the league in wins (5).

Up Next
Next, Tulane plays the second road conference series of the campaign and starts the month of April against Wichita State (19-10, 4-2 American) from April 2-4 at Eck Stadium. Game times are 6:05 p.m., 6:05 p.m. and 1:05 p.m.

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