LAWTON, Okla. – The Aggie baseball team completed their series win over Southwestern Oklahoma State on Saturday as they won game one 10-8 and then finished game two in seven innings, 13-3. They are now 7-1, while SWOSU is now 4-3.
SWOSU started the scoring in game one, scoring six runs to take the early lead. Cameron cut into the deficit in the bottom half of the inning as
Bronson Pulgados lined a homer of the left field wall to plate himself and
Jorden Fields, who singled earlier in the inning.
The Bulldogs got another run in the top of the third to go up 7-1. The Aggies responded once again, this time on a grand slam in the bottom of the fourth from
Victor DeJesus to shrink the SWOSU lead to just one run.
After Southwestern scored another run in the top of the fifth inning via a solo homer, Pulgados came up in the bottom of the inning and hit his second homer and CU's second grand slam of the game to take the lead 10-8.
That's where the score would remain as
Gaige Vines threw a masterful 4.1 innings, giving up just one run on two hits and striking out five to get the win.
Cody Knight opened up the scoring in game two, driving in DeJesus in the bottom of the first. SWOSU came back in the second and put two on the board via and RBI triple and RBI single. CU answered in the bottom of the inning as
Cole Williams scored on a
Leno Ramirez RBI single to tie the ballgame at one run apiece.
After scoreless third and fourth innings, CU broke the tie with a six run inning in the bottom of the fifth.
Micah Kaaukai drove in DeJesus for the first run of the inning, and then after stealing second, scored on a
Cody Bower single in the next at bat to make it 4-2. Pulgados then came up two batters later and drove in a pair of runs on a double to put the Ags up by four. After a Ramirez walk,
Tom McGarry added two more to the scoreboard with an RBI double of his own to put Cameron up 8-2.
Each team added a run in their respective halves of the sixth, with CU's coming on a Williams RBI single that scored Kaaukai, which made it 9-3.
Cameron struck for three more runs in the seventh to put the 10 run-rule and end the game 13-3. DeJesus started it by driving in Ramirez on a single. Two batters later Bower drove in two runs on a double to left.
Anthony Acevedo finished off the game with an RBI double off his own to score Bower and end the day.
Andrew Garza got the win, after pitching the final five innings. He gave up just one hit, no earned runs, and struck out four to move to 2-0 on the season.
Pulgados and DeJesus led the Aggies at the plate during the doubleheader, as Pulgados went 4-7 with eight RBI and four runs scored while DeJesus was 6-8 with four runs scored and five RBI.
Cameron will be back at McCord Field next weekend, Feb. 17-18 as the host William Jewell for a three game series.
