HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana University softball team closed out its pre-Southland Conference schedule with a 6-2 victory over Southern Miss Wednesday night at North Oak Park.
Southeastern (16-5) shook off an early 2-0 deficit and rallied for its fourth straight victory. Southern Miss fell to 8-10 overall with the loss.
Four Southeastern pitchers –
Ellie DuBois,
Mary-Cathryn (MC) Comeaux,
Cera Blanchard (6-1) and
Chloe Bennett – combined to hold USM to three hits.
Chloe Magee and
Maria Detillier each had two hits to lead Southeastern, while
Colleen Kulivan drove in a pair of runs to lead the Lady Lion offense. Southeastern's defense did not commit an error in the win, while USM was plagued by five errors.
"We saw a lot of good things tonight in all phases coming off a great weekend in Oxford," Southeastern head coach
Rick Fremin said. "We were pleased to keep the momentum going into our first Southland Conference series against an impressive UIW team."
The game was scoreless until USM took the lead in the top of the third inning. Hannah Borden hit a two-run home run well over the left centerfield fence to extend the lead to 2-0.
Southeastern finally got to Southern Miss starter Loganne Stepp in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Maddie Watson singled and
Lexi Johnson drew a walk to put a pair on with one out. One out later, Kulivan lined a singled into left field to clear the bases and tie the score at 2-2.
SLU took the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth inning with a two-out rally. Magee singled, then Detillier drew a walk to chase Stepp. Reliever BrookLynn White then walked
Bailey Krolczyk and
Maddie Watson to force in the go-ahead run.
Southeastern added to its lead in the bottom of the sixth.
Cam Goodman singled home
Audrey Greely and then scored on a sacrifice fly by
Ka'Lyn Watson. Two errors led to Magee scoring and extending the Lady Lion lead to 6-2. Bennett sat down the Golden Eagles in order in the seventh to secure the victory.
Southeastern will open its Southland Conference schedule at home this weekend. SLU and UIW will play a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday and close out the series with a noon contest Sunday. Saturday's doubleheader will be televised on ESPN+ and live stats for all three games will be available at
www.LionSports.net/sidearmstats/softball.
Saturday will be Youth Sports Day, as young Lion fans (Grade 8 or lower) will receive free admission to the game if they wear their team jersey. Fans will have a chance to win prizes by playing Bingo at the Ballpark Sunday. Saturday's doubleheader, along with the 10 a.m. football spring practice, the 2 p.m. baseball game versus North Dakota State and the 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. beach volleyball matches will be part of Super Lion Saturday.
In conjunction with Super Lion Saturday, Under the Hood with Roger Gill will air outside of Strawberry Stadium from 9-11 a.m. on Tangi 96.5 FM. A Super Lion Saturday show will air from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Kajun 107.1 FM, The Highway 104.7 FM and The Boss 103.7 FM/WFPR 1400 AM.
SOCIAL MEDIA
For more information on Southeastern Softball, follow @LionUpSoftball on X and Instagram, like /SLUathletics on Facebook.
HOME RUN CLUB / S CLUB
Fans interested in becoming active supporters of the softball program are encouraged to join the Home Run Club. Lady Lion softball alums are encouraged to join the exclusive S Club, which is restricted to Southeastern athletic letter winners.
All membership fees and donations to both the Home Run Club and S Club (softball) are available for the exclusive use of the Southeastern softball program. Membership information is available by contacting the Lion Athletics Association at laa@southeastern.edu or (985) 549-5091 or visiting www.LionUp.com.
TICKETS
For ticket information, please contact the Southeastern Athletics Ticket Office at (985) 549-5466 or visit
www.LionSports.net/tickets. Southeastern offers mobile ticketing as the primary source for securing tickets. All tickets will be available via e-mail in a PDF format for fans to download on their phone or print at home. Tickets can also be downloaded to Apple Wallet.
CLEAR BAG POLICY
Southeastern Athletics has a clear bag policy for all ticketed events. For more information on the clear bag policy, visit
www.LionSports.net/clear.
