ALEXANDRIA, La. – The Louisiana Christian University softball program scored its most runs in a single game over the past 14 seasons, dropped 22 on McPherson in just four innings worth of at-bats during a 22-2 drubbing.
 
The offensive explosion ranks as the third-highest in the history of the team, slotting only behind a pair of 23-0 victories over Ozarks (Arkansas) on April 2, 2011 and Tougaloo on March 20, 1998.
 
The Wildcats averaged 1.8 runs for every out recorded and approximately 5.5 per frame.
 
Among other eye-popping statistics were drawing a program-record 15 walks, rapping out a dozen hits, clobbering three home runs, legging out a pair of triples, and recording six extra-base knocks in total.
 
The Basics:
 

• Score (5 Innings)
  • Louisiana Christian – 22
  • McPherson – 2

 

• Records
  • Louisiana Christian (2-0, 0-0 Red River)
  • McPherson (0-1, 0-0 KCAC)

 

• Location
  • Alexandria, Louisiana – Champions Sportsplex

  

• Series History
  • Wildcats Lead 1-0 (100%)

 

• Winning Streak
  • Wildcats (W1) | Bulldogs' Last Win: N/A

 
Wildcats Top Performers:
 

• It was a team effort all-around as 15 different student-athletes scored (six multiple times), 11 players got a hit (only Jordan Dauthier logged two), and nine separate ladies (four of them drew more than) were responsible for breaking the team's all-time bases on balls mark in the squad's 28th year as a varsity sport.

 

• Round-trippers came soaring off the sticks of Claire Cullen (three-run), Sadie Landry (three-run), and Bevan Hartnett (two-run) with each of the trio's big flies being the first of their respective careers.

 

• Dauthier was the on the attack when she stepped in the box, collecting two hits in three at-bats (.667) including a triple while tying Landry, Cullen, and Hannah Harrison for the ballgame's RBI crown (3) with Harrison also motoring around the pillows for a three-base hit as well.

 

• Lexi Broussard scored the most of all the Cats by crossing the dish thrice while Mariel Medrano and Emma Hunt each watched ball four pop into the mitt on a team-high three occasions with the latter stealing the only base of the opener.

 

• Brooke Ross shook off a rough first inning, settling down to keep McPherson off the board the rest of the way, ending with a line of three frames, three strikeouts and just the two scores to earn the pitching win.

 

• Freshman Carly Carpenter, younger sister to Thursday's walk-off hero Katelyn Carpenter, made her collegiate debut in relief and was as close to perfect as one could get, picking up four of her six outs via punchouts while not ceding a single baserunner.

 
Next:
  

• The middle of three neutral site contests will commence at 6 p.m. versus the William Woods Owls from Fulton, Missouri.

 

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