No. 11 LSU tied a season-high three home runs and recorded its 15th shutout this season in the 9-0 five-inning victory over Southern Illinois Sunday at Tiger Park, sending LSU to the NCAA Super Regionals for the first time since 2021.LSU, who has won five of its last six games, improves its record to 43-15, while Southern Illinois’ season ends at 44-11.“I’m so proud of this team and these seniors,” said Head Coach Beth Torina. “This senior class has done all the right things. I told them right after the game that this moment was earned and deserved for how they carried themselves. Our fans were awesome in how they treated them in this final moment here at Tiger Park. They deserve those moments because they’ve done so many things so right. To see Taylor [Pleasants] finish here at Tiger Park the way she has makes everyone in the stands, and me, the happiest we could be because she deserves it. She has been the most incredible representative of this program you could ever ask for. To see her end like that and the last ball to find Ciara Briggs’s glove, you can’t draw it up any better than that.”LSU will make its 10th Super Regional appearance after claiming its first regional championship since 2021. The Tigers are now 65-31 all-time in the NCAA Regionals.Lynch moved to 9-2 on the mound and turned in her sixth complete-game shutout this year and the 10th of her career. Lynch fanned six batters and allowed one hit and one walk in the run-rule win. The Tigers relinquished one run in 19.0 innings in the 2024 Baton Rouge Regional.Connect with LSU Softball on all our social media platforms ⤵️ Visit our website: https://lsusports.net/sports/sb/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LSUsoftball Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lsusoftball Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lsusoftball/