NATCHITOCHES, La. — Northwestern State's baseball game against Louisiana Tech Wednesday night has been canceled due to a transformer fire behind the right field wall at Brown-Stroud Field.
The transformer blew up around 3:30 p.m., three hours before the scheduled first pitch, as several Demon baseball players were taking batting practice in the cages just several feet from the explosion.
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Preliminary investigations indicate the fire started due to an electrical malfunction, and in turn, the oils in the transformer ignited into an eight-foot wall of flames. The Natchitoches Fire Department was quickly on hand in case the fire escalated, but said the fire will have to burn itself out. |
Nobody was injured, and the game will not be rescheduled.
The Demons will be back in action on Friday when they open a three-game Southland Conference series at Nicholls State in Thibodaux.
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