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RUSTON – Southeastern Louisiana senior third baseman Heather Sherrill collected three hits and freshman Meghan Gomez broke a scoreless tie with an RBI double in the fifth inning to lead the Lady Lions to a 2-1 non-conference victory over Grambling Wednesday afternoon at the GSU Softball Complex.

Southeastern improved to 9-15 overall with the win and improved to 9-0 all-time versus Grambling. Lady Lion junior pitcher Catherine Gunther (3-7) struck out seven on the way to the complete-game victory.

“It was nice to get a much needed victory today,” Southeastern head coach Pete Langlois commented. “Meghan is someone who we can count on and who continues to be our most clutch performer as a freshman. Heather's one of the best players in school history and we need her to show this type of effort consistently. A win is a win, but for us to get where we need to be, we have to be more opportunistic with runners on base.”

Both teams threatened in the first four innings off Gunther and GSU starting pitcher Brandi Payne, but could not scratch out a run. The two teams each left six base runners on through the first four frames.

Southeastern finally broke through in the top of the fifth inning. Freshman Jordan Logan led off the inning with a perfectly placed bunt single. With one out, Sherrill singled to advance Logan to second. Sherrill, who had two doubles earlier in the game to raise her career record doubles total to 44, surpassed the school's career mark for total bases on Wednesday. The Alexandria native now has 271 total bases in her time with the Lady Lions, moving past former Lady Lion Heather Dye's previous career record of 270.
After Sherrill's hit, Gomez broke the tie with a double to the left centerfield fence, scoring Logan and moving Sherrill to third. Sophomore Katie Duhe followed with a groundout to short that scored Sherrill and put the Lady Lions up, 2-0.

Grambling answered with a run in the bottom of the fifth inning. Denean Woods drew a walk to start the inning, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a one-out RBI single by LaQuisha Wood. Fredrica Martin pinch ran for Wood, but was promptly thrown out trying to steal by sophomore catcher Heather Grivas. Martin was one of two runners Grivas gunned down in the contest. Gunther retired Takeia Edwards to preserve the lead.

GSU mounted one more threat in the bottom of the seventh inning. Woods reached on a two-out error and quickly stole second base. Gunther stranded Woods at second as she forced Kiara Dedeaux to ground out to end the contest.

Southeastern will be back in action this weekend, hosting UTSA for a three-game Southland Conference series. The series opens with a 3 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday with Sunday's season finale set for 12 p.m.