LAWTON – Head Coach
Rodney DeLong picked up his 100th win at Cameron with a pivotal doubleheader sweep over #20 Texas Woman's to move into second place in the Lone Star Conference with 12 games remaining. The Aggies won both games to a score of 4-2 and took the four game series over the Pioneers.
DeLong is the third CU coach to hit the 100 win milestone number and is the program's third winningest coach. Additionally, the series win over TWU is the first since 1998.
"I've been blessed to coach a lot great players," said head coach
Rodney DeLong. "This was a big series win for us this weekend and proud of the effort we had."
The Aggies climbed up to 28-13 overall and 13-7 in league play matching TWU's LSC record; Texas Woman's is 24-14 overall.
In the first game, the Aggies trailed by one until the fourth inning where
Jordan Kisselburg hit her first career grand slam with one out put them up 4-1. TWU picked up a run off of an error in the fifth to close the gap to two and put the tying run at the plate after a leadoff single in the seventh. However, they would pop up and strike out back-to-back ending the game.
The Aggies had five hits in the game with Kisselburg having four RBI.
Emily Wasinger (15-4) picked up the complete game win with three strikeouts.
Cameron struck first in the nightcap picking up a run in the second inning off a
Chelsea DeLong sac bunt squeeze with
Sonora Zukerman coming in from third to score. In the third,
Breezy McComas homered to right field with two outs with
Abbey Warren and
Nikki Horton on-base to put CU up four runs.
Texas Woman's grabbed a run off a sacrifice out in the fifth but posed a major threat in the seventh with three straight singles to load the bases to open the inning. TWU moved the runners over a bag off a sac fly and scored a run to make it a 4-2 ballgame. With the go-ahead run at the plate TWU grounded out and flied out to end the game.
The Aggies had six hits overall with Zukerman having two; McComas had three RBI off of her tenth homer of the season. Zukerman (7-4) also had the win with five innings tossed,
Alyssa Osterdock pitched a clean sixth inning, and Wasinger came in for the seventh to get her third save of the season.
Cameron will return to the field on Thursday to host St. Edward's in a single non-conference meeting before continuing LSC play at Tarleton State next weekend.