HAMMOND – The Southeastern Louisiana softball team will return home this weekend, hosting Southland Conference rival UT Arlington for a three-game series at North Oak Park.
Southeastern (7-11, 0-3 Southland) will be looking to snap a four-game losing streak. The series with the visiting Lady Mavs (14-9, 3-0 Southland) will open with a 3 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday. Sunday's series finale is set for 12 p.m.
The Lady Lions are hitting .255 as a team after the first 18 games of the season. Junior
Kelsey Nichols leads the team with a .396 batting average and 21 hits. Junior
Katie Matthews (.316), junior
Meghan Gomez (.300), freshman
Aly Williams (.292) and freshman
Jessie Browne (.286) are the other top hitters for average for the Lady Lions.
Southeastern has 11 home runs as a team with Nichols, Gomez and freshman
Tori Sheppard sharing the team lead with two apiece. Matthews, Browne, senior
Katie Duhe, sophomore
Michelle Duhe and freshman
Megan McCollum each have one home run apiece.
Nichols leads the team with eight RBI, followed by Gomez and Sheppard with seven apiece. Nichols also tops the squad with 12 runs scored, while McCollum and
Michelle Duhe have eight runs apiece.
The Lady Lion pitching staff has posted a 6.00 earned run average as a team. Sophomore
Kati Morse (1-4, 6.64 ERA), Browne (3-3, 3.94 ERA), senior
Bailey Zievert (3-1, 4.10 ERA), freshman
Megan Moore (0-0, 4.20 ERA), sophomore
Elise Kittrell (0-0, 5.88 ERA), junior
Vicki Honeycutt (0-1, 6.06 ERA) and sophomore
Kenna Terry (0-2, 9.55 ERA) have all seen action in the circle for the Lady Lions.
UT Arlington is hitting .266 as a team. Rebecca Collom leads the team with a .397 average, while freshmen Ashley McCarroll and Stephanie Gonzalez (.319) are the other top hitters for the Lady Mavs. Collom also leads the team with five home runs and 19 runs batted in.
The Lady Mavs have a 2.43 team earned run average. Freshman Callie Collins (8-2, 1.13 ERA) has emerged as the team's ace. Freshman Alexis Cantu (1-1, 3.40 ERA) and senior Teri Lyles (5-6, 3.48 ERA) are the other pitchers for UTA.
Southeastern is 13-28 all-time versus UT Arlington. UTA has won four of the last meetings with the Lady Lions' last win coming in the 2009 season finale.
Following this weekend's series, the Lady Lions will be back in action on Tuesday, facing Alcorn State at 1 p.m. in Lorman, Miss.
