Shaeyln Sanders
Richard J Martin DDS
4
Winner McNeese MCN 15-12, 1-0 SLC
1
Nicholls NICH 15-13, 3-1 SLC
Winner
McNeese MCN
15-12, 1-0 SLC
4
Final
1
Nicholls NICH
15-13, 3-1 SLC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
McNeese MCN 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 7 0
Nicholls NICH 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0

W: Sanders, Shaelyn (7-6) L: McNeill, A. (7-8)

0
McNeese MCN 15-13, 1-1 SLC
1
Winner Nicholls NICH 16-13, 4-1 SLC
McNeese MCN
15-13, 1-1 SLC
0
Final
1
Nicholls NICH
16-13, 4-1 SLC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
McNeese MCN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Nicholls NICH 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 1 6 1

W: Yoo, M. (5-3) L: Schexnayder, Ryann (4-2)

Game Recap: Softball | | Pam LaFosse

SB: Cowgirls Split SLC DH at Nicholls...Sanders Tosses One-Hitter In Series Opening Win

THIBODAUX—McNeese softball split its Southland Conference opening doubleheader at Nicholls Friday, winning the series opening game 4-1 before dropping the nightcap 1-0.  The series will conclude with the rubber game Saturday.  First pitch is set for 12 p.m.
 
McNeese (15-13, 1-1 SLC) picked up the first game win behind Shaelyn Sanders' one-hitter as she improves to 7-6 on the year.  Sanders opened the game by hitting Nicholls' leadoff batter then retired the next 12 batters she faced, retiring eight of them via strikeout.
 
Nicholls (16-13, 4-1 SLC) picked up its only hit of the game from Molly VandenBout, who led the fifth inning off with a single to center field.
 
After four scoreless innings, McNeese took a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning when Mariana Torres singled to second and scored on a single by Samantha Mundine. 
 
Nicholls tied the game 1-1 in the bottom half of the inning on a wild pitch.  McNeese responded with three runs in the sixth inning beginning with a Corine Poncho leadoff homerun for a 2-1 lead.  The homerun is Poncho's 10th of the season.  McNeese scored two more runs on a two-out single by Crislyne Moreno that scored Rylie Bouvier and Chloe Gomez.  Bouvier reached base with a single and Gomez was hit by a pitch.
 
Sanders ended the game with 10 strikeouts tying her season high and two shy of tying her career high of 12.
 
McNeese ended the game with seven hits with Mundine going 2 for 4 at the plate.
 
In the nightcap, Nicholls' Reagan Heflin's doubled to left field in the fifth inning that scored Abby Andersen for what proved to be the game winning run.
 
McNeese made things interesting in the top of the seventh when Alexis Dibbley led off with a single and Moreno was hit by a pitch with one out that put runners on first and second.  Pinch hitter Jada Munoz then hit a fly ball to right field for the second out and Dibbley advanced to third on the throw, but Moreno got caught between first and second as Nicholl's shortstop cutoff the throw from right field and tagged Moreno out to end the game.
 
Mundine and Dibbley picked up the only Cowgirl hits in the game.  Ryann Schexnayder picked up the loss falling to 4-2 on the season.  Schexnayder gave up the lone run, five hits with two strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings.  Sanders allowed one hit in 1 2/3 innings of relief.
 
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