No. 6 Bulldogs Complete Sweep of Dallas on Senior Day

SEGUIN, Texas -- The No. 6 Texas Lutheran softball team (34-1, 26-1 SCAC) completed the series sweep over Dallas (9-31, 5-25 SCAC) Friday afternoon at Ed Kruse Stadium in Seguin with 12-1 run-rule victory in five innings on Senior Day.

Katelyn Howard (Waller/Hempstead) opened the game with a 1-2-3 inning en route to a two hit, one run (unearned), four strikeout complete game. The Bulldogs blew the game open with a nine-run first inning, earning their 15th run-rule win of the season.

Nine different Bulldogs drove in a run on Friday with Linzee Leal (Corpus Christi/Mary Carroll) leading the Bulldogs at the plate, racking up four RBIs on the day on her inside the park grand slam in the first. 

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Senior @LealLinzee speeds around the bases for an inside the park grand slam for her first career home run on Senior Day #TooLiveU | #PupsUp pic.twitter.com/zUhOywdap9

— TLU Softball (@TLUsoftball) April 18, 2025

Annie Kay started things off for the Bulldogs with a one-out walk and stealing second base before an RBI double from Serena Gonzalez (Corpus Christi/Foy H. Moody) hit an RBI double. Following a single from Hernandez to place runners at first and third, Russell drove in Gonzalez with an RBI single. Texas Lutheran would load the bases ahead of a bases loaded walk to Bella Rodriguez (Pearland/Pearland). Leal sent fans into a frenze in the next at-bat as she hit her first career home run on her senior day, an inside the park grand slam to bring the score to 7-0. Caelee Clark (Montgomery/Lake Creek) kept the Bulldogs offense rolling following the reset with a single followed by two stolen bases - setting up an RBI double from Annie Kay. Faith Hernandez capped the massive inning with an RBI single to score Kay as the Bulldogs took a 9-0 lead.

An RBI groundout from Tavery Ortiz (Texas City/Texas City) pushed the TLU lead to 10-0 after two innings.

Dallas scored a run on a hit and a TLU error in the third to avoid the shutout.

A RBI double from Chesley Swisher and an RBI groundout from Kylee Jack (Richwood/Brazoswood) added the final two runs to the Bulldogs lead in the fourth.

Annie Kay (Sinton/Sinton), Faith Hernandez (Dinuba, CA/Dinuba), Harleigh Russell (Fort Worth/Boswell), and Chesley Swisher (Cypress/Bridgeland) all finished with two hits and an RBI as part of the Bulldogs 58-minute 12-hit barrage.

Following the game, Texas Lutheran honored its 13-member senior class: Missy Muras (La Grange/La Grange), Brooklyn Stone (Rancho Cucamonga, CA/Alta Loma), Ortiz, Bridgette Montes (Burleson/Burleson), Rodriguez, Amanda White (Lockhart/Lockhart), Kay, Riley Futrell (Florence/Florence), Ainsley Davis (Rockwall/Jesuit (OR)), Hernandez, Grace Smith (Galveston/Ball), Jack, and Leal, in post-game senior day festivities.

The sixth-ranked Bulldogs look to finish the regular season strong in Abilene, April 25-26, against McMurry. The three-game series starts with a doubleheader on Friday, April 25. First pitch is scheduled for 2 PM with the games being streamed on FloSports. All streaming and live stats links can be found on tlubulldogs.com.

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