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No. 1 UL Lafayette defeats No. 3 Texas State to win the 2016 Sun Belt Conference softball championship

No. 1 UL Lafayette defeats No. 3 Texas State to win the 2016 Sun Belt Conference softball championship

Mobile, Ala. – The No. 1 seed UL Lafayette defeated the No. 3 seed Texas State, 12-0, to win the 2016 Sun Belt Conference softball championship on Saturday afternoon at Jaguar Field.

With the win, the No. 9-ranked Ragin' Cajuns (43-7) claimed their 13th Sun Belt Conference tournament title overall and their second in the last three years. The tournament title gives UL Lafayette the automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Softball Championship. UL Lafayette awaits its opponent and location to be announced on the NCAA selection show on Sunday night at 9 p.