MAGNOLIA, Ark. -- Cameron closed out their busy weekend on Sunday with a two losses, falling 9-8 in eight innings to Delta State, and 10-2 to Southern Arkansas. In six games in the past three days, Cameron split the contests and will return home with a 5-3 overall record.
The two losses on Sunday is the first time that CU has lost back-to-back games since dropping four in a row from March 31 to April 3, 2015.
In game one against Delta State, the Aggies let an unearned run cross home plate in the first inning. Cameron tied the game in the second off of a
Chelsea DeLong single and took a two run lead off of a
Jessie Ingrum homer to left field to take a 3-1 lead.
Abbey Warren added to CU's lead in the third with a solo homer to left center and DeLong hit a ground out RBI to put the Ags up four runs.
However, Delta State (7-3) continued to chop at CU's lead and a two out triple in the fourth made it a two run game, then in the fifth again with two outs a two RBI single tied the game at five each.
During the sixth inning, the Lady Statesmen worked over the Aggies with two outs for the third time and go two go-ahead runs off a single to left center.
With their backs against the wall now, the Aggies worked some magic in the seventh putting two on with one out.
Annie Combs kept CU alive with a double to score
Sonora Zukerman and
Paige Ramey to tie the game.
A scoreless bottom of the seventh pushed the Ags to their second extra inning game in a row. The Aggies would manage to put two on in the eighth with one out for
Nikki Horton who doubled in the go-ahead run but missed an opportune chance for insurance runs with runners on second and third with one out; CU batters would foul out and ground out to strand those runners on base.
Now with a chance to win the game, Delta State wasn't ready to quit and put runners on second and third with two outs. The Aggies intentionally walked to put a force out at each base but the strategy backfired and a double to right center would score the game winner for DSU.
Combs, DeLong, and Ingrum all had two RBI for the Aggies; Zukerman started the game and tossed the first three innings and gave up an unearned run.
Alyssa Osterdock pitched the fourth and fifth and gave up five runs (three earned),
Emily Wasinger (1-1) recorded the final 2 2/3 innings with three earned runs charged in the loss.
In game two, the Aggies opened with a lead off of a wild pitch however things quickly turned south. Southern Arkansas (6-0) picked up two run homers in the bottoms of the first and third innings before CU picked up a run in the fourth off of a SAU error to make the score 4-2. The Lady Muleriders went yard twice in the fifth and the sixth four more runs will cross home plate to run-rule the Aggies 10-2.
The Aggies would strike out 12 times which is the most since March 17, 2015 at Oklahoma Christian and the first time since March 28, 2015 against West Texas A&M in Lawton that Cameron has been run-ruled.
Osterdock (2-2) was charged with the loss going 5 2/3 innings with 12 hits, and 10 earned runs given up.
Cameron will return to the field on Feb. 12-14 with five games in Canyon, Texas.
