Big bats lead Lady Bengals to doubleheader sweep over Baton Rouge
After being on the road for nearly a month, the LSU Eunice softball team swept a pair of games on Friday afternoon, taking both games of the doubleheader against visiting Baton Rouge Community College.
The Lady Bengals (42-4), who last played at home on March 19, used a six-run inning in each game to jump out to an 11-3 win in the opener before following with a 9-0 victory in the second game.
“When you get those big innings and you keep that lead and momentum and pressure on (the other team), it always seems to lead to good things,” head coach Andy Lee said.
Kelsey Hollier finished the afternoon 6-for-8 with five RBIs to lead the offense, which also saw Randi Vosburg total four RBIs as Brooke Clark and Emily Nolan each drove home two RBIs.
In the opener, pitcher Julienne Broussard earned the win after allowing four hits and three runs (two earned) while walking two and striking out four batters. Fellow freshman Brooklyn Guillot took home the game two victory after two hit, three strikeout performance.
The first game saw the Lady Bengals post two runs in the opening inning before adding single runs in the second and third innings. Nolan got the scoring started with her two-run homer over the left field wall in the first before Hollier’s solo shot to the exact same spot came in the third.
Baton Rouge tacked on single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings to keep the game within one run before LSU Eunice exploded for their six-run fifth inning, highlighted by Clark’s two-run double and Vosburg’s three-RBI single.
Pam Wainwright’s RBI single in the sixth inning pushed the game to its’ final score.
The second game started just as the opener did, as the Lady Bengals scored two runs in the first inning off of RBI singles by Hollier and Taylor Simon before they added a third run in the third inning on Clark’s sacrifice fly to plate Hollier.
The big inning came in the fifth, as the hosts sent eight girls to the plate in the six-run inning, highlighted by Chelsea Evans’ RBI single to plate two runs, before Carey Alexis drew a bases-loaded walk to plate another run.
Hollier capped the afternoon off with her bases-clearing, three-run double to bring the game to its’ final score and send everyone home.
The Lady Bengals are back in action on Monday afternoon when they host Bossier Parish Community College in a doubleheader slated for a 2 p.m. start.
Monday’s doubleheader is available on Bengal All-Access.
