Mano y Mano: Softball team goes one for one on the Lady Jaguar Field

During the doubleheader against Patriot League conference team, Holy Cross, the Southern University softball team made their mark against the harsh non-conference matchup at home on March 4.
Southern has hit hard strides during their season with non-conference matchups, but they improved on the diamond by scorching through Game 1 (5-3). Their only downfall was the performance on runs in Game 2 when they were outrun by five in their loss of (2-7).
Southern (2-6) scored their second non-conference win since the (2-1) victory against Detroit early in the harsh season.
In Southern’s Game 1 stint, the Lady Jaguars came up until an RBI by sophomore in-fielder Jade Luke, scored freshman pitcher, Kiara Suttles in making the Lady Jags lead 1-0 in their second inning.
After, Holy Cross scored in their second inning and went scoreless in the third, then continued to roundabout go two more innings without a hit. Starter and sophomore pitcher Kayleigh Thomas, made sure that pitches from the mound were clean, tucked and strikeouts. Holy Cross, without having bases loaded, did not know what they were getting into.
On the other hand, Southern exploded in the fifth inning with three runs. Ambrelle Burton, Alicias Barajas, and Bailey Rankin each scored by RBIs and scaled the bases to meddling Holy Cross.
Holy Cross tried to bounce back in the sixth inning, with two runs edging the field (4-3) but Southern soon combatted back with a solitary run by sophomore in-fielder, Amanda Pacheco to score the first win of the doubleheader.
To take vengeance in Game 1, Holy Cross decimated Southern in Game 2, only allowing Southern two runs. Holy Cross supplied enough ammo on the mound to relay a force to let Southern acquit to their runs.
Holy Cross went out of the gate in the first with one run to topple Southern. Southern then, in the colossal second inning, cascaded with two runs when Barajas scored from an RBI and Burton also scored.
Southern seemed to see the mountaintop, but in the third, Young from Holy Cross scored off of an RBI to tie the ranks (2-2). Southern then suffered a deficit in the third and Holy Cross snuffed out the weakness and scored two runs leading Kane and Muniz to score (4-2).
Southern towards the stretch of the game could not pick up the runs, but they pop-flied in the fourth, struck out in the fifth, and launched pop-ups for the pitcher to catch in the sixth, while grounding out in the final inning.
Holy Cross, however, in the fifth scored two more runs to rally to home plate, scoring their last run by Young in the seventh.
Southern laces up their cleats to achieve the third times a charm ritual against Nicholls State at the Lady Jaguar Field on Wednesday, March 11.