McNeese Softball falls to Louisiana Tech for second time this season

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – The McNeese Cowgirls fell to the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs 3-1 on Tuesday night after jumping out to a lead early in the game.

That lead came in the third inning as Rylie Bouvier hit a sacrifice fly to left field to bring in the game’s first run.

Louisiana Tech would respond though as they got their bats going in the fifth inning with a solo home run by Ni Hammoude, and then a double that led to two more runs off the bat of Alan Rogers to give the Bulldogs a two-run lead.

The Bulldogs bullpen was in a grove from the fourth inning and on as they struck out four batters and kept the Cowgirls from crossing the plate in key two-out situations with runners in scoring position as the Cowgirls dropped their fifth game in a row.

“Look, it’s a new team, we have to learn how to handle some adversity and support this growing process, I wish I knew what the outcome would be, but we have no clue,” said Head Coach James Landreneau. “Every year you come into this thing and you have high hopes for your team and we still have high hopes, we think this is a really good team, we just have to learn how to fight through some adversity, we got to learn how to clean it up a little bit and play one pitch at a time and it seems to me that we’re trying to win games by playing a whole game in one inning instead of truly just buying into one pitch at a time to get about the scoreboard and learn how to compete.”

Another big note from this game was the injury of Senior Catcher Emily Phillips as she went down with what seems to be a left foot injury.

“She did go to the hospital, so she was in a good bit of pain for her to have to go to hospital and I don’t really know the status of that, so we’re just waiting and I’ll leave here and run to the hospital to check on her and I’ll have an update for you guys tomorrow,” said Landreneau.

The Cowgirls will be back on the diamond Wednesday as they are set to once again take on Houston who they beat earlier this season in 13 innings.

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