UL Softball Wins SBC Tournament With Victory Over South Alabama
The Louisiana Ragin Cajuns are once again Sun Belt Conference Tournament champions.
Top-seeded Louisiana defeated the 4th-seeded South Alabama Jaguars, 15-3, in five-inning mercy-rule fashion, in the title game of the Sun Belt Conference Softball Championship in Troy, Alabama, capturing their 16th tournament championship in the process.
14th-ranked Louisiana, who has now won the event 16 times in the 21 years of completed play, defeated South Alabama in the finals of the Sun Belt Conference Postseason Tournament in 2014 (4-1), while falling to the Jaguars in the finals in 2012 (3-1) and 2015 (2-0).
The Cajuns, who have now won 28 of their last 32 games, reached the 40-win mark this year for the 22nd-consecutive season.
The Louisiana Ragin Cajuns are now just one win away from another postseason league championship.
14th-ranked Louisiana defeated the Texas St. Bobcats, 4-3, on the fourth day of play in the Sun Belt Conference Softball Championship in Troy, Alabama, to advance into the championship game.
Louisiana, the top-seed, has won the event 15 times in the 20 years of completed play.
The Cajuns, who have now won 27 of their last 31 games, reached the 40-win mark this year for the 22nd-consecutive season.
UL, who is now 64-9 in the event s history has appeared in the last six championship games and last captured the tournament title back in 2019 in San Marcos, Texas.