LAFAYETTE, La. - While the Shocker softball team (1-5) turned in its best performances of the weekend it just wasn't quite enough as Wichita State dropped a pair of one-run games to nationally-ranked foes to wrap up action at the 21st Annual Louisiana Classics on Sunday.

No. 19/17 Louisiana-Lafayette 1, Wichita State 0
No. 19/17 Louisiana-Lafayette (5-0) committed five errors, but Wichita State (1-5) could not capitalize as the Shockers dropped a second-consecutive one-run game to a nationally-ranked foe, falling 1-0 to the Ragin' Cajuns Sunday afternoon in the 21st Annual Louisiana Classics.

Junior Ashly Bright was the only Shocker to record multiple hits, going 2-for-3 at the plate for WSU. Bright (0-2) was also the highlight in the circle, holding the potent ULL offense that was averaging 10 runs per game to its lowest total of the season. No Ragin' Cajun player recorded more than one hit.

The Ragin' Cajuns opened scoring with a run in the top of the second when Desi Chatman scored on Karli Hubbard's bunt single.

Bright got out of trouble in the third, leaving the bases loaded after getting Hubbard to pop out to Britnee Barnett at short. Bright stranded a total of seven runners in the first three innings after retiring the side with the bases loaded in both the second and third innings.

WSU threatened in the fourth when Barnett led the inning off with a single and reached third after Cynthia Verhulst got on thanks to a ULL error. Sophomore Tiffany Dahlquist fouled a two-out pitch to the first baseman to end the threat, with the Shockers still trailing by one after four.

The Shockers left two on in the fifth after freshman Lindsie Mitts reached on an infield single and made it to second after an error on a Katie McGeeney ground ball. Erin Peters then reached on a fielder's choice, but Mitts was tagged on the play, giving the Shockers runners on first and second and Barnett, one of the hottest hitters in the tournament due up.

Barnett left both Shockers on base after a popping out to ULL's Meagan Goodwin, and that was all the security Ragin' Cajun starter Brittany Cuevas (3-0) needed, as she picked up the win.

It wasn't easy for Cuevas in the sixth as the Shockers put runners on first and second after Bright led the inning off with a single and went to second after Stephanie De La Riva reached first on the fourth ULL error on the afternoon after trying to sacrifice Bright over. But Cuevas got the clutch outs when she needed them after Verhulst grounded into a double play and Guthrie left Bright at third with a foul out to Lacey Bertucci to end the threat.

Britnee Barnett and Stephanie De La Riva were each named to the all-tournament team.

The Shockers are next in action next weekend at the USF/Wilson Invitational in Tampa, Fla.

No. 14/12 Georgia 4, Wichita State 3
Wichita State outhit No. 14/12 Georgia 7-4, but a three-run fifth helped push the Bulldogs (3-2) to a come-from-behind, 4-3, win over the Shockers Sunday morning in the 21st Annual Louisiana Classics.

Britnee Barnett led the Shockers with a 3-for-4 performance at the plate, driving in and scoring a run. Jamie Stanclift posted an RBI, while Cynthia Verhulst went 2-for-2 at the plate. Starter Margo Pruis (1-1) picked up her first loss of the season after working four innings, giving up four earned runs while walking two and striking out one. She surrendered to junior Ashly Bright, who worked the final two innings, giving up just one hit while walking three and striking out one. Neither Shocker pitcher gave up an extra base hit to the potent Bulldog offensive attack.

Playing without injured second-baseman Brooke Usher, who suffered an arm injury yesterday in a collision with Barnett, the Shockers got on the board first with Barnett's first home run of the year, a solo shot over the right center fence that gave the Shockers a 1-0 lead. WSU then loaded the bases after a Tawnya Guthrie single and walks by Stephanie De La Riva and Verhulst, giving Stanclift the chance to add to the lead with two outs and the sophomore did just that, drawing a bases loaded walk to give the Shockers a 2-0 lead. Elissa Zeches then added WSU's third run of the game when she reached on an error, scoring De La Riva to give the Shockers a 3-0 lead after three.

The Shockers had the opportunity to tack on more runs but stranded nine runners in the first five frames. Georgia took advantage, getting on the board in the fourth when leadoff hitter Kellie Middleton walked and later scored on a ground out by Megan McAllister, cutting the Shocker lead to 3-1.

The Bulldogs took the lead with three runs in the fifth, thanks in part to a two-run single by Middleton after Alison Horne scored on a wild pitch to the first batter Bright faced. The Bulldogs loaded the bases but Bright got out of more trouble by getting McAllister to line into a double play, keeping the Shockers within one at 4-3 after five.

The Shockers did not have another baserunner in the game as Georgia starter Kasi Carroll (3-0) settled in with the lead two of the final six Shocker hitters to hold onto the win. Carroll worked the complete game, giving up seven hits and two earned runs while walking four and striking out seven Shocker hitters.