To view a slideshow of the Alumni game, click here.The LSU softball team held off a seventh-inning surge by LSU softball alumnae to win Saturday’s scrimmage, 7-6.The alumnae managed to score three runs in the bottom of the seventh before highly touted freshman pitcher Rachele Fico struck out former All-American Jodi Otten to secure the win.Former Tiger Stephanie Hill scored the alumnae’s first run in the inning on a bases-loaded walk. A two-run single by current assistant coach Kristen Hobbs, who played at LSU from 2004-2007, made the score 7-6.But then Fico struck out Otten to end the game.”This program is a very proud program,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard. “The last time we did an alumnae game, we lost.”The scrimmage was the first time Tiger fans were able to see Fico perform in Tiger Park. The two-time Gatorade Softball Player of Year for the state of Connecticut pitched a national high school-record 26 perfect games.Kristin Schmidt, the 2004 Women’s College World Series Most Valuable Player, held LSU scoreless from the circle for two innings before the Tiger bats came alive.”Schmidt gives you fits,” Girouard said. “I went in the dugout and told the pitchers, it’s all about location. You don’t have to throw the ball a million miles an hour.'”LSU jumped out to a 7-0 lead before former Tiger Dee Dee Henderson scored on current assistant coach Kristen Hobbs’ squeeze bunt in the fifth inning.The teams treated the fans to a 10-player home run derby after the sixth inning. Junior third baseman Jessica Mouse led all hitters in the competition with three homers.Girouard said she’s glad the alumnae got to play in the team’s new Tiger Park.”You have to always honor history and never forget it,” Girouard said. “Shame on us if we would forget to honor and try to welcome back our sisters who wore the purple and gold. These are the women who made all of this possible for us.”LSU will continue its fall season when the Tigers host four Louisiana teams, starting with a doubleheader Saturday against Louisiana College and Louisiana-Monroe. LSU will host another doubleheader Sunday at Tiger Park against LSU-Eunice and Southeastern Louisiana.—-Contact Jarred LeBlanc at [email protected]