Box Score (Game 1)
Box Score (Game 2)
LAWTON, Okla. – Chase Larsson became the Lone Star Conference’s most powerful home run hitter and Kenny Held set a new record for the most triples in a season as the Cameron Aggies (30-13, 22-10 LSC) dominated the Angelo State Rams (24-23, 18-17 LSC) in a twinbill on Friday at McCord Field.
In the first game of the day, Larsson belted his national best 26th homer of the season to tie Keith Towne’s 2009 record, but he followed up with No. 27 in his next at bat in the fifth inning to break the record.
Held also entered the day with eight triples on the season and ripped a shot off the right field wall for his ninth of the season.
The Aggies won game one 18-0 as Ricky Cramer, the conference leader in ERA, pitched his six complete game and fourth shutout for the victory.
Cramer (7-3) struck out ten batters, his second highest total this season, while allowing just three hits and walking one.
In the nightcap, the Aggies got 19 runs in 18 hits to earn the 19-8 run-rule victory.
Corey Davidson (5-3) earned the victory on 3.2 innings of work while scattering six hits and striking out two. He allowed five runs (three earned) after coming on in relief of the starter James Rhodes.
In the opener, the game ran scoreless through 1.5 innings but the Aggies belted out six runs in the second and eight in the third to go up 14-0.
Nate Valdez knocked out his first home run of the day, his fifth of the season at the time, for two of the runs in the second.
Larsson got his record tying homer in the third inning, a three-run shot to center field, as part of the eight run explosion.
Joe Halley also got in on the long ball action on a windy, warm day at McCord field, a single shot to left field.
The Aggies added two more runs in both the fourth and the fifth innings including Larsson’s record breaking homer, a two-run roundtripper to right center.
Each CU starter had at least one hit and all but one had a RBI as the Aggies got their largest margin of victory this season.
In the second game, the Rams got on the board first with a two-run homer from Garrett Harris in the first frame but the Aggies responded immediately with a two-run shot of their own off the bat of Held for his 20th of the season and second nationally behind Larsson.
CU exploded for six runs again in the second highlighted by Larsson’s 28th homer of the season, a grand slam line drive to right center, to jump out to an 8-2 lead.
The home team added two more runs in the third to make it a 10-3 ball game before exploding for eight runs in the fourth to go up 18-3.
Valdez and P.J. Ortega had back-to-back homers as part of the eight-run fourth.
The Rams battled back, adding two runs in the fifth and three in the seventh but fell short to surviving the run-rule situation of ten runs after seven innings played.
The victory extends the Aggies winning streak to seven games as they now sit in fourth place in the LSC with one game remaining. That game will take place tomorrow as the first game of the scheduled twinbill with the Rams beginning at 1 p.m. at McCord Field.
