Louisiana Ragin’ Cajun

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LAFAYETTE The No. 24 ranked Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Softball team wraps up the regular season this week with a four-day stretch starting with a midweek game at Louisiana Tech on Wednesday, May 3 that will be immediately followed by a Sun Belt Conference series with ULM Thursday through Saturday, May 4-6 at Yvette Girouard Field in Lamson Park.

Louisiana (39-13, 19-2 SBC) enters the game series one win away from recording the program’s 24th straight 40-win season and needs just one win in the ULM series to secure the Sun’s regular season title Belt Conference.

Wednesday’s matchup with the Lady Techsters (31-20) in Ruston will begin at 5:00 pm at Dr. Billy Bundrick Field.

The ULM Series marks Senior Weekend for the Ragin’ Cajuns at Lamson Park with game times set for 6pm Thursday (May 4) and Friday (May 5), then 2pm Saturday (May 6) . Seniors Karly Heath, Kandra Lamb and Meghan Schorman will be honored in a pre-game ceremony on Saturday.

Starting Thursday against the Warhawks (24-28, 7-14 SBC), the Ragin’ Cajuns look to secure their fourth straight SBC regular season title and the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. Louisiana also looks to extend its streak of consecutive Sun Belt series wins for one more season, the streak currently standing at 80 streaks dating back to March 2013.

Following the completion of the four-game, final stretch of the regular season, Louisiana remains at home in Lamson Park to begin postseason play, hosting the Sun Belt Conference Tournament Wednesday through Saturday, May 10-13. The official schedule and match times will be announced after the conclusion of the regular season on Saturday (May 6).

Louisiana heads into May after a strong plate and hoop performance in April. Last month, the offense batted .318 with 61 extra base hits (23 doubles, 6 triples, 32 home runs) and the pitching staff sported a 1.68 ERA with just 29 earned runs and 73 hits over 120-2/3 innings while holding foes to a .171 average.

Mihyia Davis, a top-25 finalist for the NFCA National Freshman of the Year award, leads Louisiana with 18 games in multiple hits, 55 total hits, a .390 average, and is one of only two players nationally with a . over 1.0 steals per game.

Freshman Lauren Allred (.381, 10 HR, 40 RBI) leads a Cajuns trio with 30+ RBI with her team total of 40 RBI, senior Karly Heath (.348, 13 HR, 36 RBI) matched the his career-high with 13 home runs and Alexa Langeliers (.294, 11 HR, 38 RBI) is batting .385 as of April 1.

Sam Landry (14-4, 2.30 ERA, 116 K) and Meghan Scohrman (13-6, 1.86 ERA, 130 K) together started all but nine games this spring and both passed the 100 strikeout mark for sophomore seasons consecutive . Senior Kandra Lamb has excelled in her transition to the pitching staff closer, throwing 10 scoreless relief pitches in her last 12 appearances, getting just eight hits, and tallying 34 strikeouts in 27 innings pitched during the stretch.

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