PINE BLUFF, Ark. – The Southeastern Louisiana softball team set a single-game school record for runs and hits in a 20-3 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Wednesday afternoon at the Torii Hunter Baseball, Softball and Little League Complex.
Southeastern (18-18) made liberal use of its bench, as 12 different Lady Lions accounted for its single-game school record 22 hits. SLU scored multiple runs in every inning on the way to its fourth straight victory, dropping Arkansas-Pine Bluff to 6-25 overall.
Freshman outfielder
Kinsey Nichols led SLU with two home runs and five RBI, while junior outfielder
Katie Lacour was a perfect 4-for-4 with four runs scored. Senior infielder
Megan Moore added three hits and three RBI, while freshman catcher
Carlie Whittington, sophomore outfielder
Sloan Jenkins and freshman infielder
Grace DeLee had two hits apiece.
DeLee also drove in two runs, while Jenkins, freshman infielder
Sydney Booker, junior designated player
Amber Sather, sophomore catcher
Lacey Fritz, freshman infielder
Peyton Stokes-Sutton and senior second baseman
Vanessa Eng all had an RBI apiece.
Lacour led SLU with her four runs scored, while Nichols scored three runs. Moore, Sather, Jenkins and senior first baseman
Teresa Lemos scored two runs apiece, while Booker, Whittington, DeLee, freshman outfielder
Shelby Stewart and junior outfielder
Amanda Livaudais each scored a run.
In the circle, senior
Spencer Adkinson (2-4) earned the win by pitching the first three innings. Junior
Madison Vige' pitched shutout relief in the final two innings. UAPB scratched a run across in the bottom of the first inning, then added two more in the top of the third inning on a home run by Page Garcia.
SLU scored two runs in the first, added three more in the second, then scored five runs each in the next three innings. Hailey Forbes (3-10) went the distance for UAPB, allowing 17 earned runs and walking seven.
The 20 runs scored topped the previous single-game school record of 19 set versus Grambling on Feb. 16, 2008. The 22 hits were the most by the SLU program in a game, besting the previous standard of 21 versus Jackson State on March 29, 2006.
Southeastern will continue its road trip this week, facing Central Arkansas in a three-game series. The series opens with a 4 p.m. doubleheader on Friday and concludes with an 11 a.m. single game on Saturday.
