Junior shortstop Lindsay Mesh had a game winning 2 RBI double in the bottom of the sixth inning during the Colonels’ last game against Texas State on March 18 to win the game 2-1.Mesh is playing her first season as a Colonel after transferring from Seminole State Junior College and Okaloosa Walton Community College.

As a sophomore at Okaloosa Walton Junior College, Mesha dabbled with shortstop and third base. Mesh was also named Second Team-All Conference.

As a freshman at Seminole State, Mesh played right field as well as broke the school’s single-season doubles record. Mesh was also named to Honorable Mention All-Conference.

Q: How do you like it here at Nicholls State University coming from Okaloosa Walton in Florida?

A: “Well it’s a big difference. I went to Seminole State at Oklahoma my freshman year and we had a bad year with the coach and only one girl returned. It was hard and at the end of the season I had to figure out what I was going do. It’s a big difference playing for a junior college then coming here.”

Q: Was it a good difference?

A: “Yes. Good. Very good.”

Q: What made you choose Nicholls? Was coming from Miami to Thibodaux a big difference?

A: “Well one of my best friends Audrey is here. We played together my freshman year. You go where you get the most money, and it’s a great opportunity.”

Q: What is the most important thing that you learned playing junior college softball that has prepared you to excel at Nicholls?

A: “Well you learn as you get older that the game gets a little faster and it doesn’t take one person to win it, it takes a whole team whether you’re on the bench or off the bench. It’s a lot of pressure on and off the field. You have to work hard, and use your off season to build and to strengthen. During the season, you really don’t have time to lift weights, you just have to stay conditioned.”

Q: How do you feel your junior year is going so far? Is it going like you planned?

A: “Nothing goes as you planned. I really can’t complain. We have a good team and a great group of girls.”

Q: How do you predict your team will finish?

A: “We should win it. Most of the games we lost were only by like one point. Every team in our conference we’ve been ahead of at one point in the game or have been neck and neck with until the last innings of the game. It’s just that they came up with their timely hitting and we didn’t.”

Q: How do you feel about your fellow teammate and best friend Audrey Wood being named Southland Conference player of the week?

A: “I support her. She’s like my sister.”

Q: Do you have any predictions for your game against Houston Baptist this Saturday?

A: “You have to take one game at a time. I’m excited, we’ve had 10 days off.”

Q: You aspire to work in the medical field; what exactly do you want to do there?

A: “I just really want to work in the hospital and help people. I plan on starting cardiovascular next fall, so I’m going to finish up my fifth year.”

Q: If you were offered to play professionally, would you take the opportunity?

A: “I would like to take it, but after I finish my four years here, I’m done. It’s been a long road, but I don’t regret any of it.