HAMMOND, La. – A pair of late-game mistakes against a quality team proved too costly for Northwestern State in Saturday's series finale loss at Southeastern.
 
For the second straight game, the Demons (14-26, 2-13) had one inning with multiple errors and multiple free passes, giving the Lions (36-8, 13-2) extra outs they turned into runs in an 8-4 win.
 
Down by two going into the fifth inning, an error and a walk put the first two batters of the inning on base for the Lions. A ground ball to third that would have served as the final out of the inning produced only the second that was immediately followed by an RBI single down the line for a run.
 
The aggressive baserunning style of the Lions produced two more runs during the next at bat with a double steal of second and home followed by a steal of third and throwing error that allowed the run to score turning a two-run game into a six-run game in the blink of an eye.
 
The only two hits of the inning produced a run for the Lions, who scored 15 runs in the series 
with two outs on nine hits, five of those coming on Saturday. Eight of those runs were unearned.
 
Southeastern got an early lead in the game on a pair of extra base hits in the bottom of the first, a leadoff home run and an RBI single, the rare less-than-two-out-runs scored by the Lions on the weekend.
 
The Demons offered and immediate response to the two quick runs in the top of the second, providing their own bit of two-out damage.
 
Kennedy Reynolds flipped her fourth hit of the weekend into left with one out, and after a fly out to center, Sophia Livers provided the first of back-to-back two-out hits for the Demons. On the eighth pitch of the at bat, Mia Liscano drove a ball deep to the right center gap to score both runners and tie the game at two.
 
The Lions offered their own response in the bottom of the inning with a two-out, two-run hit of their own to move back ahead 4-2.
 
That score held over the next two innings as the Demons managed just one baserunner, coming from Laney Roos' fourth walk of the weekend in the third inning, over the next three innings of the game.
 
Lions pitchers Cera Blanchard and M.C. Comeaux retired 11 straight hitters before Reynolds got her second hit of the game, and the fifth in seven at-bats in the series, to open the seventh inning.
 
A walk to Aly Delafield and a sacrifice bunt put a pair in scoring position for Taylor Williams to drive her second triple of the weekend to the gap in deep left center scoring both runners on the play. Tristin Court made a bid to cut the deficit in half but a falling down catch at the base of the wall in left center ended the game and the series in Hammond, Louisiana.
 
Reynolds had her second multi-hit game of the weekend with a 2-for-3 performance at the plate and Roos added to her team and conference lead with two more walks in the game and four on the weekend.