GAME DETAILS
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 28
Opponent: Houston
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Houston, Texas  
Series Record: McNeese leads the series 11-7 and have won the last five meetings
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LAKE CHARLES – McNeese softball, who received votes for the third straight week in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll, will travel to Houston, Texas Wednesday to face the Houston Cougars in its first road contest this season. The game will be streamed on ESPN+ and is the first of two against the Cougars this season.  Houston will visit Lake Charles next Wednesday, March 6.

McNeese (10-4) will carry a five-game winning streak into Wednesday game and are coming off a 4-0 record last week that includes a 4-1 win over Boise State.  The Cowgirls posted a 3-0 record at its Cowgirl Classic II to end the week with two run-rule wins over Niagara and a shutout win over North Dakota.

Houston (12-4), in its first season as a member of the BIG 12 conference is coming off a 2-3 record at the LSU Tiger Classic last weekend with its wins coming against Austin Peay.
 
McNEESE NOTES
• Received votes in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll for the third straight week
• First road game this season
• Are on a five-game winning streak
• Have won five games via the run-rule
• Rank in the NCAA Top 20 in five categories (13th- stolen bases, 14th- double plays per game, 17th- stolen bases per game, 18th- walks, 19th- shutouts)
• Sophomore Corine Poncho and freshman Alexis Dibbley rank among the nation's Top 20
• Poncho is tied for 6^th in homeruns, ranks 10^th in homeruns per game, and 13^th in slugging percent
• Dibbley ranks 20^th in triples
• Six Cowgirls are batting above .300
• Poncho and Emily Phillips lead the team with a .412 and .406 batting average, respectively
• Poncho also leads the team in hits (14), homeruns (7), walks (10), and runs scored (17)
• Phillips leads the team with four doubles
• Freshman Samantha Mundine tops the team with 13 RBI
• In the circle, McNeese has used six different pitchers in its first 14 games
• Sophomore Ryann Schexnayder leads the staff with a 3-0 record and a 1.58 ERA
• Senior Shaelyn Sanders also has three wins (3-2) on the year with a 2.21 ERA.  Sanders has a tossed a staff high 31.2 innings.
 
 

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