LAWTON – After splitting the first two games of the four game series against Tarleton State on Friday, the Aggie softball team followed that up with a split of games three and four against the TexAnns on Saturday. Cameron, who is now 29-12 overall and 11-9 in the Lone Star Conference, won game one 6-1, but dropped the second game 6-5.

Cameron got the scoring going early in game one, striking for five runs in the first. CU got back to back hits to lead off the game from Macy McKay and Breezy McComas. McKay then came around to score on as Tara Martini hit a grounder to the TSU shortstop, who tried to throw out McKay at home but overthrew the catcher. Two more runs came across the plate in the next at bat as Lauren Renneker drove in two runs on a double off the right field fence.

After a TSU pitching change, Renneker came around to score on a Paige Daino single to left that was booted by the TexAnns left fielder, allowing the run to score and Daino to reach second with nobody out. Two batters later, Carly Allerheiligen reached on a single to right and Sonora Zukerman followed that up with an RBI single of her own to give the Ags the early 5-0 lead.

Tarleton State threatened in the top half of the third by loading the bases with two outs, but Kelsey Watson got the clean-up hitter to pop out to the shortstop to end the TexAnns rally.

Both teams went scoreless in the second and third innings before Cameron added another run to the scoreboard on a pair of two out hits. McKay singled to left, advanced on a wild pitch, and then was brought home on a hit by McComas to give CU the 6-0 lead after four.

The TexAnns got their first run of the ball game on a solo homer in the top of the sixth inning and put runners on first and second with two outs but Watson got her fifth strikeout of the game to sit down the TSU pinch hitter for the third out. Watson would go on to get a three up three down seventh inning to secure the game one win, 6-1.

Watson (15-4) went all seven innings of the first game and gave up just one run on four hits and had six strikeouts.

Both McKay and McComas had two hits in game one, with McKay scoring a pair of runs and Renneker driving in two runs on her one hit.

In game two, it was Tarleton State who would put the first runs of the game on the board. They loaded the bases with just one out and got a two RBI pinch hit double and scored another run as the runner on third base stole home, making it 3-0 in favor of the TexAnns.  

A two run homer for TSU would extend their lead to 5-0 in the top of the third. Cameron came right back in the bottom of the inning and matched TSU's homer with a two run two out bomb from Renneker, her 14th of the season, to cut the lead to 5-2 through three innings.  

The TexAnns answered with another run in the top of the fourth to extend their lead back to four, but Cameron cut it back down to three in the bottom of the fifth on Martini's 16th homer of the season.

The Aggies would not stop there, as Jessie Ingrum pinch hit and doubled a ball to left center to score Allerheiligen to make it a 6-4 ball game with no outs in the bottom of the sixth inning. An out and a hit later, Martini hit a fly ball to the centerfielder, who missed played it and allowed another run to score as CU cut the TSU lead down to one after six innings.

The Aggies got a base runner on in the seventh, but two straight pop ups to the TSU shortstop would lead to the 6-5 loss.

Katelyn Craker (6-3) started the game and went two and a third innings with five runs given up on six hits with three strikeouts in the loss. Watson came in a third of a way through the third inning and finished out the game, going four and a two thirds innings and giving up just one run on four hits with two strikeouts.

McKay had two more hits in game two and Renneker had a pair of RBI in the loss.

Tarleton State is now 22-18 on the season with a 9-9 LSC mark.

The Aggies will be back at McMahon Field on Tuesday, April 14 for a double-header against Oklahoma Panhandle State.