LAFAYETTE, La — Eight days after Texas State's double-digit winning streak was halted, the Bobcats were the team on the other end as TXST ended No. 14/17 Louisiana's 17-game winning streak to start Saturday's action with a 5-1 win before the Ragin' Cajuns bounced back to claim the night gap 7-3. 

Saturday's doubleheader, which was set to begin Friday night but was delayed due to weather in the area, lived up to the expectations as a pitchers' duel broke out between Texas State freshman Jessica Mullins (14-4) and Louisiana's Kandra Lamb (14-3) as both pitched put up zeros in the run column over the first three innings. 

Louisiana (33-7, 15-2) broke through first, though, when Kaitlyn Alderink, who hit a one-out double and was advanced to third on a single by Karly Heath, scored on a suicide squeeze bunt off the bat of Melissa Mayeux in the bottom of the fourth inning. 

The Bobcat (27-7, 9-4) offense got its footing in the top of the sixth inning when Tara Oltmann sent a 1-0 pitch to centerfield for a one-out single. Sara Vanderford followed with a second consecutive single by the Bobcats. Hailey MacKay was intentionally walked to load the bases for freshman Piper Randolph, who delivered the go-ahead hit with a two-run single to cap an eight-pitch at bat to put Texas State ahead 2-1. 

Mullins, with her first lead on the afternoon, road the momentum from her offense to retire the Ragin' Cajuns in order in the bottom of the sixth. 

The momentum carried over into the top of the seventh as Cat Crenek sent the first pitch of the inning over the right-centerfield fence for a solo home run. Oltmann followed three batters later with a one-out, two-run home run to left-centerfield to extend Texas State's lead to four. 

Mullins worked around a one-out single to cap her second career complete game on just 96 pitches. 

Texas State attempted to ride Mullins' momentum in the second game, too, as the freshman received the start in the pitching circle, but Louisiana struck for four first-inning runs on five hits as the Bobcat made a pitching change just four batters into the inning. The Ragin' Cajuns added single runs in the second and fourth innings on solo home runs from Heath. 

The Bobcats broke through against Louisiana starting pitching Summer Ellyson (14-4) with two outs in the top of the sixth as Oltmann scored Hannah Earls, whose single in the inning extended her on-base streak to a team-high 18 consecutive games, from first on a double to left-centerfield. Vanderford, like earlier in the day, followed the Bobcats' senior shortstop with a run-scoring hit of her own. 

Louisiana added an unearned run in the bottom of the sixth on a one-out sacrifice fly. 

Texas State, however, did not go quietly as Randolph led off the top of the seventh with a single back up the middle. She advanced to third on back-to-back outs, before scoring on a Crenek single. Earls reached on a muffed throw, then Kylie George singled up the middle, too, to load the bases — trailing by four runs — for Oltmann. 

Unfortunately, Oltmann grounded out on the first pitch to end the scoring threat and bring the game to an end. 

Texas State will look to end Louisiana's run of 61 consecutive conference series won when the two teams do battle on Sunday, April 18 at 12 p.m. looking for the series win after splitting Saturday's action.