Springfield Walk-Off Seals 3-2 Softball Win

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Clyde VerdinAssociate SID



BATON ROUGE, La. – A Sydney Springfield infield single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh lifted the No. 12 LSU softball team to a gritty, 3-2 walk-off win over the Nicholls Colonels Tuesday night at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge.
Tied at 2-2 in a game that looked destined for extra innings, Springfield’s hit ricocheted off of the tip of the defender at second base’s glove allowing Aliyah Andrews to score from second to seal the victory in thrilling fashion.
LSU (24-7) produced eight hits on the night from seven different players, none bigger than Springfield’s who earned her first of the night on the final play. Bailey Landry was the only player to earn multiple hits, going 2-for-4. Taylor Satchell and Andrews each drove in runs in a two-run second inning that gave LSU the lead at 2-0.
Each team used two pitchers, and when it came down to it in the end junior Carley Hoover (7-4) was masterful as she struck out five and walked just one in 2.2 innings of relief. She came on for Sydney Smith who was perfect in the first three innings before running into trouble after as she allowed both Nicholls (19-11) runs on four hits with two strikeouts in 4.1 innings in the circle to eventually tie the game in the fifth.
Suffering the loss in the end was Nicholls’ Jackie Johnson (7-6), only allowing a single run on two hits with three walks and three strikeouts in the final two innings of the contest. She came on for starter Megan Landry, who allowed six hits, two to her cousin Bailey for the Tigers, in 4.2 innings, allowing two runs, one earned, on 59 total pitches.
 
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