LAWTON – The Cameron baseball team beat out the rain but they would fall to Tarleton State 3-1 on Saturday afternoon.
 
Cameron's loss is their tenth in a row in league play and will send the Aggies to 15-24 overall and 8-19 in the Lone Star Conference.
 
Dirk Masters started the contest and went seven innings on the mound but the Aggies would be limited to four hits overall.
 
After a scoreless first, the Texans opened the second inning with a leadoff triple, and TSU's next hitter would ground out to get runner home to give them the early one run advantage.
 
Both starters would be locked in and it would take until the bottom of the sixth until Jonathan Reyes opened the inning with a single.  The Aggies manufactured a run with Tyler McKinzie dropping down a bunt to move Reyes up a bag; Brandon Wright in the next at-bat would single up the middle to tie the game.
 
However the tie wouldn't hold for long and a leadoff double turned into a pair of go-ahead runs in the seventh to give TSU a 3-1 advantage.  In the bottom half of the inning, CU managed to load the bases off two walks and a hit-by-pitch, but they would strand those runners with two strikeouts ending the threat.
 
Cameron would go in order in the eighth and ninth to fall just before the rains came.
 
Masters tossed 124 pitches and punched out eight TSU hitters, with six hits and three earned runs given up.
 
With the win against the Aggies, Tarleton State will go to 17-17 overall and 11-13 in conference play.

Both teams will turn around and play doubleheader on Sunday to conclude the series at 1 p.m.