HOUSTON —- The HCU bats went quiet on Friday as the Huskies saw their four-game winning streak snapped, dropping both ends of a Southland Conference doubleheader at Husky Field to Southeastern Louisiana.
SLU pulled away down the stretch in the opener for a 6-3 victory, then carried that momentum straight into 8-0 victory over the Huskies in the nightcap. The Lions have now won a school-record tying 12 in a row, heading into Saturday's series finale.
GAME 1
HCU jumped on the board first in their first turn at-bat.
AB Garcia reached on a muffed throw at first, then stole second and reached third on a throwing error.
Avery Drake singled just inside the left field line, giving the Huskies a 1-0 lead.
The Lions would pull in front in the second. Bailey Krolczyk doubled to right to start the game and moved to third on a groundout before scoring on a wild pitch. Audrey Greeley then walked and stole second, before coming in to score on Cam Goodman's RBI single to center, giving SLU a 2-1 lead.
The Huskies would knot things up in the fourth inning.
Haylie Savage walked and moved to second on a
Jasie Roberts fielders choice, where all hands were safe. One out later,
Kaicey Hagler doubled off the wall in right to score Savage and make the score 2-2.
SLU capitalized on an error and a couple of run-scoring fielder's choice plays to score three runs over the next two innings. With SLU leading 5-2 in the bottom of the sixth,
Autumn Sydlik mashed her fourth homer of the year over the tall wall in left center, to pull HCU to within 5-3, but SLU answered it with a RBI single by Goodman in the seventh to push the lead back to three.
Katy Janes suffered the loss, dropping to 6-9 on the season. She went the distance, giving up 12 hits and six runs, three of which were earned.
Drake went 2-4 with an RBI and Sydlik and
Kaicey Hagler had the only other hits for the Huskies.
Goodman went 4-5 with two RBI and a run, while Madison Rayner and Krolcyzk each had two hits. KK Ladner got the win, going six strong innings, and MC Comeaux came on in the seventh to notch her third save.
GAME 2
SLU would keep up the pressure in game two, scoring four times in the first inning and never looking back to take the nightcap.
An RBI fielders choice and an error, a sacrifice fly, and finally an RBI single by Maddie Watson highlighted a hectic inning which saw SLU score four times on just two hits.
The Lions would put three more on the board in the fourth, with Watson again providing the big knock, a two-run single to center. Maria Detillier would get an RBI single in the fifth to close the scoring.
Lyndie Swanson suffered the loss, going 4.2 innings to fall to 8-6 on the season.
Cera Blanchard picked up the win, tossing a one-hitter, allowing just a third-inning two-out double to
AB Garcia. She improves to 14-4 overall.
Goodman capped off a big day, going 3-4 with two runs, finishing 7-9 in the two games. Maddie Watson was 2-2 with three RBI and Krolcyzk was 2-2 with two RB.
NEXT UP:
The Huskies (18-22 / 7-7 SLC) will look to salvage the series finale when they face the Lions (37-8 / 12-2 SLC) on Saturday at Husky Field.
With the loss, HCU falls into a group of teams all sitting at .500 in league play. Nicholls is 9-9, with HCU, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Northwestern State all deadlocked at 7-7 after Friday's action.
Southeastern remains one game back of McNeese in the standings, as the Cowgirls took a double-dip from Nicholls on Friday.
First pitch on Saturday is scheduled for noon, and you can follow the game via LIVE STATS.
