Written by the LSWA
BATON ROUGE – An amazing hitting display by Lexie Comeaux of UL-Lafayette and two pitching wins for Allie Walljasper of LSU earned the pair the Louisiana Sports Writers Association selection as state softball players of the week.
Comeaux hit six home runs and posted 15 RBI during the Ragin’ Cajuns Invitational, going 9-for-15 with eight extra base hits. Walljasper pitched 13 innings with two complete games and just one earned run with six strikeouts in the Tiger tournament this past weekend.
Here are the capsules on the winners:
HITTER
LEXIE COMEAUX – UL-LAFAYETTE – So, C, Tomball Texas,
Results 6-0 … def Alcorn 8-0, N. Dakota State, 8-2, 15-0; A&M CC 18-0, 8-0, Alcorn 14-4
Lexie Comeaux hit six home runs and posted 15 RBI as part of a personal offensive explosion during the Ragin’ Cajuns Invitational last weekend at Lamson Park. For the weekend, the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns’ catcher hit .600 (9-of-15) with eight of her nine hits going for extra bases (two doubles, six home runs) resulting in a 1.933 slugging percentage. Comeaux collected an RBI all six games notching a trio of four-RBI performances along the way. She closed the weekend with a home run in five straight games, capped off by her first career multi-homer game in the finale vs. Alcorn. On Saturday she delivered a two-run single and two-run home run against North Dakota State in picking up her first of three games with four RBI on the weekend. In Saturday’s nightcap, she launched a solo home run in the sixth inning igniting a four-run inning that allowed the Cajuns to pull away from A&M-Corpus Christi for an 8-0 win. Comeaux finished the weekend strong, going 3-for-4 at the plate with three home runs and eight RBI on Sunday.
OPP NAME AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB SB
Alcorn (3/3) 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0
NDSU (3/3) 4 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0
NDSU (3/4) 3 3 2 4 0 0 1 1 0
A&MCC (3/4) 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
A&MCC (3/5) 2 1 1 4 0 0 1 0 0
Alcorn (3/5) 2 2 2 4 0 0 2 1 0
WEEK TOTALS 15 9 9 15 2 0 6 4 0 .600
PITCHER
ALLIE WALLJASPER — LSU
ERA W/L CG SHO SV IP H R ER BB SO
0.54 2-0 2 1 0 13.0 9 1 1 1 6
Results 6-1 – Win at Southern Miss, 4-2; Win vs. Ill. State 10-2, Win vs FAU 5-1; Win vs. Illinois 3-0; L to Minnesota 3-0; Win vs. FAU 9-1; Win vs. Troy, 11-1.
LSU junior pitcher Allie Walljasper led the pitching staff with a 0.54 ERA as she tossed a complete-game shutout and only allowed one run in 13.0 innings of work this week for the Tigers. Walljasper went 2-0 on the week and allowed just nine total hits, striking out six and walking just one batter. Opponents hit just .152 off of her for the week.