LAKE CHARLES— McNeese softball completed its Southland Conference opening series sweep with a 1-0 win over Incarnate Word Saturday to improve to 11-13 overall and 3-0 in league play. The loss dropped UIW to 2-18 on the year and 0-3 in the SLC.
"Obviously any time you can come away with a wins in conference, you are happy for your team," said head coach
James Landreneau. "Big picture wise, for this team to progress and get better- we pitched really well on Friday and did a pretty good job at the plate of getting some runs in and squaring up ball. The story right now is we are still leaving people on base, we have to do a better job of getting runners in."
McNeese will conclude its five game home stand against Baylor with single games next Tuesday and Wednesday.
"For the week coming up, we need to work on making adjustments at the plate and continue to improve on our swings. Tuesday and Wednesday we will play a tough Baylor team that has great tradition, they are consistently a powerhouse who is always ranked. We need to fixed some things internally before we focus on Baylor then we have a big conference series at SFA on the weekend," Landreneau said.
SCORING
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nd Inning- McNeese scored the only run of the game on a throwing error by UIW's catcher trying to throw out
Demi Boudreaux stealing second. The throw sailed into center field allowing
Brenique Wright to score from third base. (McN 1, UIW 0)
NOTES
- McNeese was held to two hits with
Justyce McClain and
Demi Boudreaux both picking up singles.
- McNeese left five runners stranded, three in scoring position with less than two outs
- McNeese continued to burn the base patch by stealing eight bases
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Caroline Settle improved to 3-4 on the year with the win and it's her first shutout of the season. Settle allowed all our UIW hits, walked two and struck out four.
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Ashley Koncir relieved Settle in the seventh inning with one out with runners on second and third. Koncir got the final two outs of the game to pick up her first save of the season.
- McNeese retired the jersey of Cowgirl great
Erika Piancastelli prior to the game
ON DECK
McNeese will host Baylor next Tuesday (6 p.m.) and Wednesday (4 p.m.) before returning to Southland Conference action next weekend at Stephen F. Austin for a three game series.
