University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
McNeese State
Cajuns Drop Non-Conference Heartbreaker
4/6/2007 5:00:00 AM | Softball
After the Cajuns failed to score in the top half of the first inning, McNeese took an early lead with a single run in the bottom of the first. Brooke Brodhead led off with a double to left field and later scored on a Cajun error.
The Cajun bats came to life in the top half of the third inning as
McNeese cut the UL lead to 4-3 in the bottom of the third on RBI singles from Jenny Clay and Rachael Phillips.
After both teams went scoreless in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings,
With two outs and nobody on in the bottom of the seventh inning, Megan Beard and Jenny Clay both singled for the Cowgirls, and both scored on an error by Cajun left fielder Vallie Gaspard, to tie the score at five, at the end of seven innings of play.
The Cajuns placed runners at second and third with one out in the top of the eighth inning on Karli Hubbard and Melissa Verde singles, but Cowgirl relief pitcher Cori Bram came on in relief of starter Jena Jones and retired Tankersley and Bertucci to end the inning.
In the bottom of the tenth, for McNeese, Clay led off with a single, advanced to second on a wild pitch, and scored the winning run on a Phillips fielder's choice.
Bram, who relieved Jones, with one out in the eighth inning, was the winning pitcher and improves to 4-10. Brittany Cuevas was the hard luck loser for the Cajuns and drops to 21-5.
The Cajuns 13 hit attack was led by Tankersley and Runyan with three hits each. Bowers and Hubbard both added two hits.
