SAN ANTONIO – Northwestern State will need to quickly put Wednesday night's disappointing performance at LSU behind it as it returns to Southland Conference baseball action at Texas-San Antonio for a three-game weekend series beginning Friday at 6 p.m.
 
All three games will be audio and video streamed live, free of charge, courtesy of the UTSA athletics department.  Fans can access the link on www.nsudemons.com.
 
The Demons (5-11) are coming off perhaps their worst showing of the season when they dropped a 13-0 decision to 10^th-ranked LSU on Wednesday night.  All three phases of the game – offense, defense, pitching – hit a wall.
 
NSU had just six hits in the contest with two of those coming in the ninth inning and it was shutout for the first time this season.  Defensively, the Demons committed four errors that led to six unearned runs, and on the mound, NSU walked seven batters to just five strikeouts.  The only bright spot in the game was the Demons did not allow an extra-base hit.
 
“We just didn't compete,” said head coach J.P. Davis.  “That's the bottom line.  But now we need to put this behind us, regroup and get back to playing the way we were before the LSU game.”
 
The Demons rolled into LSU having won three of their previous four games, including a 2-1 Southland series win over McNeese State last weekend to open conference play.
 
In that series, Davis changed the pitching rotation up a bit and it seemed to have worked.  He'll go with the same this weekend as Colin Bear (1-2, 3.52 ERA) will start Friday's game, Jacob Roark (1-2, 2.75) in Saturday's 2 o'clock contest, and Jacob Williford (0-0, 5.93) will start Sunday's 1 p.m. finale.
 
Bear shut down the McNeese bats in the Demons' 8-0 win in Saturday's first game of a doubleheader after he allowed just one hit and struckout eight.
 
Offensively, the Demons are hitting .249 as a team as Nick Hinojos leads the way with a .323 average, two home runs and 11 RBI.  Jordan Buckley follows with a .300 mark and a team-high nine stolen bases.
 
UTSA (9-8) is coming off a 12-0 loss to Notre Dame on Wednesday and will enter the weekend 1-2 in conference play after it dropped two of three to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi last weekend.
 
The Roadrunners rank fourth in the league in hitting with a team batting average of .271 and is paced by Riley Good's .412 mark, third best in the conference.
 
On the mound, UTSA will go with Casey Selsor (3-1, 3.60), Justin Anderson (1-0, 5.62) and Michael Kraft (2-2, 3.91).