GULF SHORES, AL – The No. 16 Louisiana State University of Alexandria softball team opened the Gulf Shores Invitational with a pair of losses against No. 25 Lindsey Wilson College, 2-1, and No. 13 University of the Cumberlands, 6-2.
GAME ONE | LCW 2, LSUA 1
Lainee Bailey (6-2) tossed a complete game but the offense managed just four hits.
Bailey went all six innings and allowed just one earned run on five hits. She tallied four strikeouts and walked four.
Kilee Moody finished 3-for-3 and was only a home run shy of the cycle.
Both offenses were held off the scoreboard for the first three innings. After forcing LSUA (13-7) to strand the go-ahead run at third in the top of the fourth, the Blue Raiders broke through. A leadoff double from Emerson McKenna was followed by a sacrifice bunt from Kaiden Rodgers. Natalie Wandrie then drove in McKenna with a single for a 1-0 lead.
The Blue Raiders added a second run in the fifth when Summer Ray scored on a passed ball.
In the top of the sixth, the Generals scored their only run of the contest.
Julia Kwakernaak reached on a walk before stealing second. She scored on an infield single by Moody but LWC limited the damage to maintain the lead.
GAME TWO | UC 6, LSUA 2
A three-run first inning propelled the Patriots to victory over the Generals. Cumberlands finished with 18 hits and scored in each of the first three innings.
Kirsten Martinez (2-1) allowed five runs, four earned, on 11 hits over three innings of work. She struck out a pair.
LSUA recorded nine hits, including two each from
Kaetlyn Dunbar,
Alyssa Soileau, and
Sophia Romero.
The Patriots pushed across three runs in the first inning. Emily Delgado doubled home the game's first run, before Kristen Smith and Jae Jae Phillips notched RBI singles.
An RBI single from Dunbar in the bottom of the first plated
Haley Fontenot, cutting the deficit to 3-1.
Cumberlands plated a run in the second and an additional run in the third. LSUA held the Patriots off the scoreboard in the fourth and fifth before Smith singled home Aniyah White for a 6-1 lead. An RBI double from Kwakernaak made it 6-2, but the Patriots' kept the Generals' bats in check in the seventh.
UP NEXT
LSUA takes on No. 8 Central Methodist and (RV) Campbellsville tomorrow, March 7, at 3:45 PM and 6:00 PM in Gulf Shores.
