PINEVILLE, LA – The two-seeded Louisiana State University of Alexandria softball team fell in the 2025 Red River Athletic Conference Championship Final, 3-0, to Our Lady of the Lake after eliminating Texas A&M-San Antonio, 10-2.
"Anytime you finish as the conference runner-up, it's probably something that you shouldn't be disappointed with," LSUA Head Coach Trent Partridge said. "At the end of the day, I think all our girls are disappointed in the outcome of the game. We told the girls coming into today it wasn't designed for them to win it, they had to do something out of the ordinary and win three games today. There's some things we are going to fix and we have a week to work on it."
A three-run home run from
Kilee Moody spurred the Generals' (46-7) offense in the elimination game against the Jaguars (24-27).
Trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth, an error allowed
Kamille Lightfoot to reach and
Rylie Jeau Theriot to score. A single from
Haley Fontenot drove in
Kassidy Tucker, tying the game at 2-2.
Moody then launched a three-run blast to left, putting LSUA ahead 5-2. Two batters later,
Julia Kwakernaak sent a ball over the center field wall for a solo home run.
Alyssa Soileau (17-1) held the Jaguars in check for the final three innings. She allowed just two runs on five hits. She struck out five.
Fontenot and Moody both tallied another RBI in the fifth before a bases loaded walk in the sixth to Lightfoot triggered the run rule, 10-2.
LSUA's offense sputtered in the final against Our Lady of the Lake University (45-7). The Generals managed just three hits.
Ava Hernandez (23-3) struck out six hitters in the circle for the Saints. She forced LSUA to leave five runners stranded on base. Hernandez recorded three strikeouts with runners in scoring position.
"She's [Hernandez] tough to hit against," Partridge said. "She took it to another level and we needed to make adjustments in putting balls in play."
OLLU opened the scoring in the second with a sacrifice fly from Alyssa Garcia. It was the only run allowed by
Kirsten Martinez (4-1). She tossed 3.1 innings and allowed five hits with two strikeouts.
"Kirsten came out today and did what she did," Partridge noted. "She's very tough and allowed only one run against one the best offenses [in the country]."
The Generals threatened in the sixth. Fontenot led off with a walk and was followed by a single from Moody. A sacrifice bunt by
Madi Baker put runners on second and third with one out. Hernandez picked up back-to-back strikeouts, keeping LSUA off the board.
In the bottom of the sixth, Garcia came through again for the Saints. She laced a two-run single up the middle for a 3-0 lead.
A lead-off single from
Kaetlyn Dunbar in the seventh was all the Generals managed in the final frame.
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