PINEVILLE, LA (04.23.16) - The UT Dallas softball team is playing at its highest level at the right time, wrapping up its regular season schedule Saturday afternoon with a 4-2 victory and series sweep of Louisiana College.

The Comets (22-18 overall) improved to 18-12 in American Southwest Conference play to move past the Lady Wildcats (17-21, 15-15 ASC) in the conference standings and enter next weekend's ASC Championship Tournament as the No. 3 seed. Ironically, the Comets will open the tournament against 6th-seeded Louisiana College at 10 am Thursday in Tyler.

UTD picked up the third straight win in the weekend series with LC by breaking a 2-2 with a pair of 7th inning runs. Freshman outfielder Melissa Livermore again sparked the offense, going 3-for-4 and scoring twice. She also picked up four more stolen bases in the series finale, upping her ASC single season record total to 48 with at least two games left to play in next weekend's tournament. As a team, the Comets added five stolen bases to increase their total to 110, just eight shy of tying the conference record. With three hits and two runs Saturday, Livermore tied the school hits record with 64 total hits and set a new UTD single season runs record at 42.

With the score tied at 2-2, UTD got a one-out single from Taylor Ervin, an infield single from Livermore and a pair of stolen bases to put two runners in scoring position. Pinch-hitter Sara Morales delievered a sacrifice fly to score Ervin with the go-ahead run. As Livermore advanced to third, a throw from the catcher went into the outfield and Livermore came home to give the Comets a 4-2 lead. After a leadoff single in the bottom of the inning, UTD got out of the jam with a line drive double play to Kendall Moore at third base.

Lauren McLeod (15-7) picked up her second win in as many days, scattering six hits and three walks with one strikeout.

UTD got on the board first in their first at-bat. Livermore started with an infield single, stole second and then third base. Again, the LC catcher was off-target on her throw to third and Livermore scampered home with the first run of the game on the error. Brittany Perkins reached as a hit batter, then scored all the way from first on a booming double from Sara Navarro to centerfield.

LC tied the game up in the 3rd, The Lady Wildcats got a baserunner on an error, then loaded the bases with a single and a walk. Another walk forced in a run, then the tying run scored on a sacrifice fly.