LAKE CHARLES – Northwestern State scored all of its runs on Saturday with extra base hits, but were unable to keep pace with McNeese's own set of run-scoring base knocks in a pair of losses to finish the weekend series.
 
Aly Delafield accounted for the only run of game one for the Demons (3-23, 0-6) with her solo home run, the second of the season for the sophomore, in the fifth inning of a 4-1 loss. Riley Schwisow drove in NSU's only run of the second game on an RBI double to center in the fourth of a 14-1 run-rule loss in game two.
 
McNeese (17-13, 4-2) had a two-run home run in game one that proved to be enough offense to hold off the Demons and then exploded for two more long balls, five doubles and two triples in game two to run away with the game early.
 
The long ball in the first game was the first blemish on a quality outing in the circle for freshman Kaymie Chandler, who ended with her second complete game of the season.
 
Chandler danced around two-out hits in each of the first three innings to put up three scoreless frames, matching McNeese starter Kadence Williams in each half innings.
 
The Cowgirls broke through with two straight two-out hits in the fourth, the second of which leaving the park to give them a 2-0 lead. It only took two batters and one pitch though for the Demons to provide an answer the next frame.
 
On the first pitch she saw, Delafield sent one over the wall in right center for her second home run of the season to cut the McNeese lead in half with one swing of the bat. That however was the final hit the Demons collected in the game as they failed to capitalize on walks in both the sixth and seventh innings.
 
Chandler kept the Cowgirls off the scoreboard following Delafield's home run, but a sacrifice fly and RBI single in the sixth provided two insurance runs for McNeese an inning later.
 
After a scoreless first in the second game of the day things got out of hand in bottom half of the second.
 
An innocuous error at short allowed the third batter of the inning to reach, but more detrimentally to the Demons, provided an extra out to one of the deepest lineups in the Southland Conference. The play would have resulted in the final out of the inning with a pop up to second immediately following the blunder.
 
As good teams do, McNeese took advantage of the miscue.
 
A single and a walk loaded the bases, setting up a grand slam home run that broke the game and the floodgates open for the Cowgirls. McNeese scored eight unearned runs in the inning to take the commanding lead early in the game.
 
They added to their advantage in the third inning on the legs of five doubles in the inning to move ahead 13-0 after three innings.
 
The Demons' first base runner of the game came on a walk to Brynn Daniel in the fourth, the 12^th time in the past 13 games in which she as reached base. Schwisow drove a ball over the head of the center fielder three pitches later scoring Daniel from first for the Demons lone run of the game.
 
Sara Kate Booker hit a double to right center in the fifth for NSU's only other hit.