BATON ROUGE- No. 10/15 LSU softball broke a 2-2 tie with four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on its way to a 6-2 win over McNeese Tuesday night.
 
McNeese falls to 19-10 overall and LSU improves to 24-5 with the win.
 
Erin Ardoin led McNeese at the plate with a 2 for 3 appearance including a double and a run scored.  The other Cowgirl hits came from Alayis Seneca and Mariana Torres.
 
LSU ended the game with 12 hits with Danieca Coffey going 3 for 4 with. Triple.
 
LSU took an early 2-0 lead in the first inning on five hits off Cowgirl starter Whitney Tate who took the loss, falling to 9-2 on the season.
 
The Cowgirls got on the board in third inning when Erin Ardoin doubled down the third base line with two outs then scored on a single to center by Seneca.
 
Torres tied the game at two apiece in the fourth inning with her second home run of the season with a leadoff home run.
 
The Tigers responded with four runs on five hits in the fourth inning and two Cowgirl pitching changes to take a 6-2 lead.
 
LSU pitcher Raelin Chaffin (3-1) held McNeese to two hits in the final three innings to pick up the complete game win.
 
McNeese will return home this weekend to host Texas A&M-Commerce in a Southland Conference series on Friday that will broadcast on ESPN+.
 
 
SCORING
B1: LSU scored two runs on five hits (LSU 2, McNeese 0)
T3: Erin Ardoin doubles down third base line and Alayis Seneca singles to center field scoring Ardoin (LSU 2, McNeese 1)
T4: Mariana Torres tied the game with a lead off solo home run (LSU 2, McNeese 2)
B4: LSU retook the lead on a RBI single by Maci Bergeron for the first of four Tiger runs of the inning (LSU 6, McNeese 2)