Game 1 Box Score / Game 2 Box Score
PINEVILLE, La. – For the second time this season, the Louisiana College softball team split a doubleheader with Mississippi College. The Lady Cats won 2-1 then dropped the late contest 11-0.

The split was an important one for Louisiana College (22-8, 13-7 American Southwest Conference East), which maintained its three-game advantage over the Lady Choctaws (21-13, 12-10 ASC East) in the race to secure a berth in the ASC tournament.

LC, which has six conference games remaining, currently sits in third place in the ASC East. Mississippi College, which has just two conference games remaining, is in fourth.

The top three teams in each of the ASC's two divisions qualify for the conference tournament.

Junior pitcher Leslie Eastham (Baton Rouge, La./Woodlawn HS) was the defensive star of the first came. Eastham (7-2) pitched all seven innings, allowed no earned runs struck out one, walked two and allowed seven hits.

On offense, it was sophomore center fielder Chelsea Allen (Houma, La./Vandebilt Catholic) who shown brightest for the Lady Cats. Allen went 1-for-3, scored the first run of the game, then provided the game-winning RBI in the bottom of the seventh.

Meggie Burkett (West Monroe, La./West Ouachita HS) went 1-for-3 and provided LC's other RBI.

In the late game, it was all Mississippi College as the Lady Choctaws scored five runs in the first inning, four in the third and two in the fifth inning of a game that was shortened to five innings due to the mercy rule.

Kim Mason (7-7) got the win in the second game after pitching four innings and allowing one hit. Jordan Waldroup (6-4) took the loss.

LC managed just two hits in the game, one apiece from Meagan Pearson (Frierson, La./North DeSoto HS) and Emily Douglas (Gonzales, La./St. Amant HS).

Courtney Nunn (9-4) took the loss in the first game. 

Mississippi College's top batter on the day was Ashley Greenway who went a combined 3-for-6 with two runs scored and an RBI.