Few things cool down a hot streak like a split with the Southeastern Conference’s 10th-place team.The No. 17 LSU softball team took its five-game winning streak and five-run-per-game average to Oxford, Miss., on Tuesday night and came out of a doubleheader against Ole Miss with a split and just seven combined runs. “I’m still not happy … We should have won this series,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard. “It just shows you that you can’t just roll off the bus and expect to win games.”The Tigers’ bats had been going off with the consistency Girouard wanted up until their first meeting with the Rebels (13-17, 2-11). LSU (21-7, 8-3) combined for 43 hits — an average of 8.6 — in its five previous wins, but accounted for just four in its opening 3-2 loss to Ole Miss.”We’ve had a terrible time with [Ole Miss pitcher Becky Nye],” Girouard said. “She’s beaten us the last three times we’ve played. I don’t know what it is.”LSU’s low offensive production — four hits, two runs — allowed the Rebels to take the night’s first game into extra innings. A two-run home run from LSU freshman infielder Ashley Langoni gave the Tigers a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, but the Rebels rallied to tie the score and extend the game.LSU junior pitcher Cody Trahan (6-2) pitched a no-hitter up until the rally but ended up with three runs and three hits after 10 innings. An Ole Miss base hit off Trahan gave the Rebels the win to start the evening.”We had that game won in the seventh inning, and we gave it away,” Girouard said. “This is a young team, and sometimes you just have to learn it the hard way.”The Tigers found their offense in the night’s second game — a fact Girouard credited to facing “a different pitcher.” LSU capitalized off a two-run, two-hit third inning and a two-run, two-hit seventh inning on the way to a 5-2 win.Freshman infielder Anissa Young went 2-for-4 for three RBI in the win after not getting a hit in her first outing.Freshman shortstop Juliana Santos also earned an RBI when her third-inning single scored junior outfielder Kirsten Shortridge.”They’re good softball players, and that’s why we recruited them,” Girouard said. “Hopefully [Young] started to break out a little bit in the second game tonight.”Ole Miss tried to stage another rally with runs in the sixth and seventh innings, but the Rebels couldn’t overcome LSU’s four-run cushion. Freshman pitcher Brittany Mack (7-1) limited the Rebels’ comeback by forcing a groundout to end the game.Mack pitched a complete game, allowing six hits and two runs with four strikeouts.”We’ve got to really work on not allowing leadoff walks,” Girouard said. “But [Mack] had a lot of control tonight, and I liked what I saw from her.”—-Contact David Helman at [email protected]