NATCHITOCHES – The All-America season of baseball pitcher Adam Oller, and a strong showing by the Northwestern State track and field teams at the Southland Conference Outdoor Championships, are paired in the Sweet 16 opening round of the 2016-17 "Demon Delights" contest spotlighting 16 highlights of the 2015-16 athletic year for the Demons and Lady Demons.

Voting ends at noon Wednesday on the pairing. Oller won All-America honors from Louisville Slugger (second team) and the American Baseball Coaches Association, along with Pitcher of the Year in the Southland Conference and on the All-Louisiana team. The NSU track and field squads combined for 228 points, with the women finishing second and the men taking third, at the Southland Outdoors.
 
Sixteen top achievements, dubbed "Demon Delights," were chosen from a field of almost 30 nominees and paired in eight first-round voting matchups. In each, fans visiting NSUDemons.com will have 36 hours to choose their favorite, advancing it to the quarterfinals, and potentially forward to the semifinals, with the two favorites selected in a 48-hour span. The finalists will be open for voting for two days with the "2015-16 Demon Delight of the Year" set on Aug. 4, when the NSU football team begins preseason practice under fourth-year coach Jay Thomas.

Along with visiting NSUDemons.com to vote, fans can pick their favorites in each round on social media, the @NSUDemons Twitter account and the Northwestern State Demons Facebook page.

In the fifth pairing of the Sweet 16, voting concluded overnight Tuesday between two Lady Demon field event standouts capping their careers in style. Ashley Aldredge won a third Southland Conference javelin championship and qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships for the second straight year, where she duplicated her 2015 finish, 19th, repeating honorable mention All-America honors. Por'sha Thomas also repeated, sweeping the Southland Conference indoor and outdoor triple jump crowns for a third consecutive season, ending her career with six conference titles in the event, and qualifying for the NCAA East Preliminary Round for a third year in a row. 

Both Thomas and Aldredge have earned undergraduate degrees with honors.

In the closest voting this summer, Aldredge -- last year's Demon Delights winner - prevailed by 13 votes and advanced to the quarterfinal round.

The 16 "Demon Delights" of 2015-16 up for fan vote over the next four weeks:
 

• Football caps strong finish by whipping SFA 33-17 to reclaim sports' largest trophy, Chief Caddo. (advanced to quarterfinals by fan vote)

• Senior kicker Chris Moore earns All-America honors after record-breaking season. 

 
 

• Ed Eagan shatters career receiving, kick return, all-purpose yardage records, joins Dallas Cowboys. (advanced to quarterfinals by fan vote)

• Student-athletes post consecutive semester GPA's over 3.0 among long list of continuing academic achievements. 

 
 

• After heartbreaking knee injury in season opener, Demon basketball guard Jalan West gets NCAA waiver granting him another senior season in '16-'17. (advanced to quarterfinals by fan vote)

• Lady Demon hoops measures up to preseason polls, earns Southland Tournament No. 2 seed and postseason tourney berth in 19-win season. 

 
   

• Five Demon track and field competitors (E. Williams, Larkins, James, Flaviano, Shillling) earn All-America honors with high finishes at the NCAA Outdoors.

• 1-2-3 finish in Southland Indoors SLC Indoor long jump by Demons is only 3^rd time in conference history for a podium sweep in the LJ/TJ.  (advanced to quarterfinals by fan vote)
   

 
 

• Lady Demons senior Por'sha Thomas caps career with 6 straight Southland triple jump crowns by again sweeping indoor, outdoor conference titles.

• Ashley Aldredge repeats as honorable mention All-American in the javelin with 19^th at NCAA Outdoors. (advanced to quarterfinals by fan vote)

 
 

• Track programs combine for school-record 228 points as Lady Demons finish 2^nd, men 3^rd at Southland Outdoors.

• Adam Oller becomes NSU's first baseball All-American since 1999, earns Southland Conference, Louisiana Pitcher of the Year honors. 

 
 

• After leading Lady Demons to 3^rd straight national postseason basketball tourney, point guard Janelle Perez leads is named Southland Conference Student-Athlete of the Year. 

• Lady Demon tennis plays in 4th straight Southland tourney final, 6th in the past 7 years as Natalya Krutova wins Academic All-America award 

 
 

• Lady Demon soccer ties LSU in Baton Rouge, first non-losing match versus Power 5 program in 19-year program history. 

• Baseball records third straight 19-win Southland Conference season, best string in program history, also wins at NCAA CWS runner-up Arizona.