NATCHITOCHES, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana softball team stole a single-game school record 13 bases on the way to a 6-2 victory over Northwestern State in the 2016 season finale for both teams Saturday afternoon at the Lady Demon Diamond.
 
Southeastern (23-32, 6-21 Southland) snapped an eight-game losing streak with Saturday's win. Northwestern State, which also missed the Southland Conference Tournament, finished 27-25 overall and 10-17 in league action.
 
Saturday's game was the final game for the senior class of Sydney McCullough, Madison Vige', Amanda Livaudais, Taylor Bishop, Amber Sather and Katie Lacour.
 
Lacour, who led the Southland Conference with a .423 batting average and 74 hits this season, also set single-season school records with 58 stolen bases and 49 runs scored. The Port St. Joe, Florida native set a new Southland Conference career record with a .425 career batting average. She also finished her career as the school's career leader with 277 hits, 148 runs and 70 stolen bases.
 
Sather, who hit a two-run home run in her final collegiate at-bat, also left her mark on the Southeastern career record book. The Kennedale, Texas native finished as the program's all-time standard bearer with 142 RBI and 135 walks in her four seasons in Hammond.  
 
Southeastern's 13 steals on the day topped the previous record of nine matched several times this season. Lacour set a new single-game school record with five stolen bases on the day. Livaudais added three steals, while sophomore Peyton Sutton and freshman Jaquelyn Ramon had two steals apiece.
 
Freshman Taylar Fuselier had the Lady Lions' other steal. Southeastern, which entered the series third in Division I in steals and had 21 in the series versus the Lady Demons, set a single-season school record with 171 steals, topping the previous school record by 109 stolen bases. Lacour (58 steals), sophomore Kinsey Nichols (35) and Ramon (32) all topped the program's single-season school record heading into the season.
 
Pitching in her final game, Bishop (13-17) allowed one run and five hits in 6.2 innings of relief on the way to her 42^nd victory in a Southeastern uniform. Lacour and sophomore Brittney Wingate led SLU with two hits apiece, while Sather had a game-high two RBI. Junior Mychal Truxillo, Fuselier, Livaudais and McCullough all had hits for SLU.
 
Lacour gave Southeastern the early lead in the top of the first inning. She led off the inning with a single, stole second and third and scored when Kellye Kincannon's throw to third sailed into left field, giving SLU a 1-0 lead.
 
Northwestern State came back in its half of the first, as Kincannon beat out an infield single and eventually scored on an RBI single by Brittney Jones. The Lady Demons would eventually load the bases with one out to chase SLU freshman starter Caitlyn VanHemerlryck. Bishop came in to retire Jordan Rains and Hailee Rhodes to keep the score tied at 1-1.
 
Southeastern threatened against Micaela Bouvier (15-11) in the top of the second inning. Singles by Fuselier and Livaudais put a pair in scoring position, but Bouvier struck out freshman Jaquelyn Ramon to end the inning.
 
SLU took the lead in the top of the fourth inning. Sophomore Brittney Wingate led off the inning with a single and was lifted for sophomore pinch runner Peyton Sutton, who stole second and third. Livaudais then hit a pop up in front of the circle that Bouvier dropped, allowing Sutton to score.
 
Livaudais then stole second and third with Ramon at the plate. Ramon then drew a walk and never stopped running on her way to second, drawing a throw from Kincannon. Livaudais broke on the throw, stealing home and giving the Lady Lions a 3-1 lead.
 
Southeastern padded its lead in the top of the fifth inning. After a single by Truxillo, Sather lined a two-run shot over the right centerfield fence. Sather's team-high eighth home run of the season put the Lady Lions up, 5-1.
 
Bishop was cruising until NSU chopped into the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning. A double off the top of the right centerfield fence by Micayla Sorosiak scored Jones to pull the Lady Demons closer at 5-2.
 
The Lady Lions got the run back in the top of the sixth inning. Ramon walked and stole second. Lacour then bunted back to the circle and reliever Shelby Sells throw to first was wide, allowing Ramon to score and put the Lady Lions ahead, 6-2.
 
Bishop nailed down the win, retiring five in a row before allowing a walk to Jones with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Natalie Landry followed with a shot deep into the right centerfield gap, but the speedy Lacour ran it down to close out the victory.