BATON ROUGE – Southern scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to rally for a 5-4 non-conference softball victory over Southeastern Louisiana in non-conference action Tuesday evening at Lady Jaguar Field.
With its fourth straight loss, SLU fell to 19-24 overall. The host Lady Jaguars improved to 15-12 overall.
Southeastern collected 11 hits in the loss. Junior designated player
Amber Sather led the Lady Lions with three hits, while senior third baseman
Megan Moore and sophomore outfielder
Sloan Jenkins had two hits apiece.
Junior outfielder
Katie Lacour scored her school career record 94
th run, breaking the previous record set by Katherine Watts (1996-99). Sather, Moore and freshman catcher
Carlie Whittington each had RBI's for the Lady Lions.
In the circle, junior
Madison Vige' (0-5) was excellent for the Lady Lions in relief, holding Southern to five hits and striking out three in 5.2 innings of relief.
Southeastern got on the board in the top of the first inning. Lacour beat on an infield single then scored later in the inning of an RBI single by Sather. It appeared that Moore had doubled in the second run of the inning, but the umpires ruled that Sather missed second base on the way home.
Southern took the lead in the bottom of the first, as the Lady Jaguars took advantage of two Southeastern errors to take a 3-1 lead. Southeastern evened it up in the top of the second inning on an RBI single by Whittington and a Southern error.
Vige' and Southern pitcher Delphia Thomas matched zeroes from that point until SLU took the lead in the top of the fifth inning. Sather singled to put the go-ahead run and Moore followed with a double into the left centerfield gap to score freshman pinch runner
Peyton Stokes-Sutton and give SLU a 4-3 advantage.
In the seventh, Southern loaded the bases on a single by Kiara Suttles and walks by Ambrelle Burton and Amanda Pacheco. With two outs, Jade Luke beat out an infield single to score Suttles.
Freshman shortstop
Sydney Booker's throw was late and bobbled by senior first baseman
Teresa Lemos. Lemos' throw home was off the mark, allowing Burton to score the game-winning run.
Southeastern will be back in action later this week, traveling to Nicholls for a three-game series. The series opens with a 6 p.m. contest on Friday and concludes with a 1 p.m. doubleheader.
