DENTON -- Missed opportunities at the plate and uneven pitching led the Aggies to 10-5 and 8-5 losses at Texas Woman's on Thursday night.

After winning a program best 17 games in a row Cameron has dropped seven of their last nine and has slipped to 26-9 and 8-6 in Lone Star Conference play.  

Texas Woman's knocked around CU pitching for 22 hits while the Aggies would strand 21 runners on base in the doubleheader.   Prior to the Thursday's games, Cameron was perfect in 13 games when scoring first, on Thursday they fell both times after putting up an early advantage.

After two scoreless innings the Aggies pushed across the first run off a Lauren Renneker hit-by-pitch with the based loaded with one out but would leave without any further damage after ending the frame with a strikeout and a popup.   The bottom half of the inning TWU batted around the order and tallied seven hits and six runs to take the lead, they would add one more in the fourth off a ground out to push their lead to 7-1 on CU. 

Cameron chipped away at the TWU lead and Renneker hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth and Breezy McComas added two more in the sixth off a double, they would also get the tying run at the plate but a strikeout ended the frame with a 7-4 Pioneer advantage.

Despite Cameron closing in, Texas Woman's used nine batters in the bottom of the sixth to get three insurance runs to push their lead back out to five. 

The Aggies added one more in the seventh off a Tara Martini double but CU's scoring would end there.

In game one, CU went 2-13 at the plate with runners in scoring position and left 12 on base.

Kelsey Watson (13-3) went 5 1/3 innings and gave up 10 runs off of 12 hits in the loss.

In the night cap, Cameron struck first with four runs off a Martini solo homer, a Chelsea DeLong two run blast, and a Paige Daino ground out RBI.  However, the Pioneers cut the lead in half in the bottom half of the inning and tied the game with a homer in the second.

In the third, CU retook the lead off an error to score a run but that advantage was erased with a three run homer in the home frame to give TWU a 7-5 lead; they would add one more in the fourth off a two-out double.

Cameron would manage to load the bases in the sixth off a single and two walks with two outs but the inning would end with a popup.  In the seventh they would go down in order with three strikeouts.

Sonora Zukerman (8-4) went three innings with seven runs given up, Katelyn Craker finished the contest with three innings and one run scored.

With the wins against the Aggies, TWU will move to 15-17-1 overall and 7-5-1 in league play.

Both teams will return to the field on Friday to wrap up the series with a doubleheader starting a 1 p.m.