BOSSIER CITY, La. â€" Texas Lutheran Softball moved its win streak to 28 games and improved to 31-4 overall with a pair of road wins Saturday evening against Centenary (La.).
 
At Airline High School in Bossier City, the 19^th-ranked Bulldogs survived 4-3 in the early game before erupting for a 19-5 win in the late game. The second game was called after five innings.
 
The Bulldogs, the defending champions of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, will take a 21-0 conference record into Sunday's final regular-season doubleheader.
 
No TLU softball team has ever gone a full conference schedule undefeated. The 2014 Bulldogs went 21-1.
 
TLU and Centenary (7-24, 4-18 SCAC) will play the Sunday doubleheader at the Centenary Softball Complex in Shreveport. The doubleheader will begin at 1 p.m. (The games were moved back to 1 p.m. from a previously-announced noon start time.)
 
Taylor Grissom picked up win number 15 in the first game. The junior right-hander from Spring improved to 15-0.
 
Veny Pizana (Odem/Odem) collected the game-two pitching win. Pizana, a sophomore right-hander, improved to 10-2.
 
Hope Estes (Willis/Willis) doubled home the go-ahead run for TLU in the early game. Brayden Pinckard (Buda/Hays) singled to score the eventual game-winning run in the first game.
 
Estes produced a whopping seven RBI in the late game. She hit a three-run double in the second inning and a three-run home run in the fifth. Estes added an RBI double in the fourth.
 
Ashley Jacobsen (Marion/Marion) went 4-for-4 with three runs scored and four RBI in the late game. In the same contest, Jennifer Gallagher (Missouri City/Elkins) collected three RBI with two hits in five at-bats.
 
Jacquelyn Brown (Vidor/Vidor) was a perfect 3-for-3 with three runs scored and two RBI.
 
In the early game, Centenary had the tying run at second base and the winning run at first base in the bottom of the seventh. Grissom was able to end the Ladies' upset chance by coaxing the final batter into a foul-out to first.