LAFAYETTE — When a late lifeline was needed, the late bloomer stood ready and waiting.
As Texas A&M was looking for two more outs Sunday to force a winner-take-all game in the NCAA softball Lafayette regional, Louisiana-Lafayette sophomore shortstop DJ Sanders was lurking on deck. Aleah Craighton doubled to bring the tying run to the plate in an 8-6 contest. That gave Sanders the opening she needed.
“You don’t want to pitch to DJ in the seventh (inning),” Cajuns coach Mike Lotief said. “She did it against Georgia State. She would have like the worst at-bats, and she lulls the other team into this sense of complacency.