Cajuns Close Regular Season with LA Tech Midweek, ULM Series

LAFAYETTE – The No. 24-ranked Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Softball team concludes regular season play this week with a four-day stretch of games starting with a midweek game at Louisiana Tech on Wednesday, May 3 that will be immediately followed by a Sun Belt Conference series with ULM from Thursday-Saturday, May 4-6 at Yvette Girouard Field at Lamson Park.

Louisiana (39-13, 19-2 SBC) enters the series of games one win away from recording the program's 24th consecutive 40-win season and needing only one win in the ULM series to lock up the Sun Belt Conference regular season title.

Wednesday's matchup with the Lady Techsters (31-20) in Ruston is set to begin at 5:00 p.m. from Dr. Billy Bundrick Field.

The ULM series marks Senior Weekend for the Ragin' Cajuns at Lamson Park with game times set for 6:00 p.m. on Thursday (May 4) and Friday (May 5) then 2:00 p.m. on Saturday (May 6). Seniors Karly Heath, Kandra Lamb and Meghan Schorman will be honored in a pregame ceremony on Saturday.

Starting on Thursday against the Warhawks (24-28, 7-14 SBC), the Ragin' Cajuns seek to secure a fourth consecutive SBC regular season title and No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. Louisiana also seeks to extend its streak of consecutive Sun Belt series won through another season – the streak currently standing at 80 straight series won dating back to March 2013.

After the four-game, regular-season ending stretch is completed Louisiana remains at home at Lamson Park to start postseason play, hosting the Sun Belt Conference Tournament from Wednesday-Saturday, May 10-13. The official bracket and game times will be announced following the conclusion of regular season play on Saturday (May 6).

Louisiana heads into the month of May coming off a strong showing at the plate and in the circle in April. Last month, the offense batted .318 with 61 extra base hits (23 doubles, 6 triples, 32 home runs) and the pitching staff sported a 1.68 ERA yielding just 29 earned runs and 73 hits over 120-2/3 innings while holding foes to a .171 average.

Mihyia Davis, a Top 25 finalist for the NFCA National Freshman of the Year Award, leads Louisiana with 18 multiple-hit games, 55 total hits, a .390 average and is one of only two players nationwide averaging over 1.0 steals per game.

Freshman Lauren Allred (.381, 10 HR, 40 RBI) leads a trio of Cajuns with 30-plus RBI with her team-high total of 40 RBI, senior Karly Heath (.348, 13 HR, 36 RBI) has matched her career-high with 13 home runs and Alexa Langeliers (.294, 11 HR, 38 RBI) is batting .385 since April 1.

Sam Landry (14-4, 2.30 ERA, 116 K) and Meghan Scohrman (13-6, 1.86 ERA, 130 K) combined have started all but nine games this spring and have each surpassed the 100-strikeout mark for the second straight season. Senior Kandra Lamb has excelled in her transition into becoming the pitching staff's closer, tossing 10 scoreless relief efforts in her past 12 appearances while yielding just eight hits and totaling 34 strikeouts over the 27 innings pitched during the stretch.

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Cajuns Close Regular Season with LA Tech Midweek, ULM Series

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Lauren Allred

Mihyia Davis

Karly Heath

Kandra Lamb

Sam Landry

Alexa Langeliers

Meghan Schorman

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