WICHITA FALLS, Texas – A late inning comeback fell short as Cameron dropped their fourth Lone Star Conference game in a row, 6-5, at Midwestern State on Tuesday night.

The Aggies (13-26, 6-13 LSC) got a pair of hits and two RBI from Tara Martini, while freshman Sonora Zukerman blasted her tenth homer of the season in the loss.

Midwestern collected 13 hits as a team, Kelley Schaefer gave the Mustangs two hits and three RBI.

Samantha Betts (9-12) went 4.1 innings, giving up three runs, and 10 hits.  Betts would strike out three Mustang hitters and walk two.

The Aggies trailed out of the gates with the Mustangs getting a pair of runs in the bottom of the first. 

Cameron tacked on their first run of the game in the top of the third playing small ball.  Claren Hurlbut got a bunt single to start the inning; Spencer Ferrell would then drop down a sacrifice bunt to move Hurlbut to second.  Later in the inning, Tara Martini doubled off of a 1-2 count to left field and brought Hurlbut home to make it a 3-1 game.

The Mustangs responded back in the bottom frame with two singles and a walk to start the inning.  However, Cameron would limit the damage allowing only one run to cross home.  MSU would extend their lead through to 4-1 after three innings.

In the top of the fourth, Cameron missed an opportunity for a big inning after Micah Foutch hit an RBI single to put runners at second and third with one out.  The Aggies would strand the runners and trail MSU 4-2.

Both teams would put up a run, before MSU added a pair in the bottom of the sixth.  Midwestern would start the inning with a lead off homer and double before Kelsy Hebert would relieve Betts out of the bullpen. The runner at second would later score to give MSU a 6-3 lead after six innings.

In the top half of the seventh, Misty Dooley reached on a throwing error and ended up at second with one out.  Tara Martini would nail down her second double of the game to score Dooley.  Leslie Martini followed up with a first pitch single to center field to bring Tara home.  With the tying run on the Aggies would pop up and strike out to end the game with a 6-5 loss.

Hebert would go 1.2 innings out of the bullpen and gave up three runs while walking three Mustang batters.

Cameron will travel to Canyon, Texas for a three game series at West Texas A&M starting on Friday, April 19.