LAWTON, Okla. – The Cameron softball team closed out their home season with a doubleheader sweep of UT Permian Basin on a day where the team honored their three seniors:
Alyssa Osterdock,
Abbey Warren, and
Rylee Willmon.
The Aggies found themselves in a pitcher's duel in the first game on Friday. However, it did not look like that after the first two innings.
Cameron scored a run in both the first and second frames to take an early 2-0 lead.
Brenna Busby got things started with a solo homer to lead off the CU half of the first. In the second,
Kylie French and Osterdock both singled to put two runners on with one out. After
Kaylyn Smith moved both runners over on a sacrifice bunt, French came in to score when B. Busby reached on an error by the UTPB first baseman.
Those two runs ended up being enough for CU's starter, Willmon. The senior went all seven innings, giving up just one run in the fifth inning on three straight singles. She gave up just six hits, walked one, struck out four, and stranded eight UTPB runners on base in her ninth win of the year.
French and Osterdock both had two hits in the game, while the four CU hitters at the top of the order accounted for the other four hits.
In game two of the day, the Cameron offense exploded for 10 runs on 10 hits to earn the run-rule victory for their 32nd win of the season.
Callie Busby kicked things off with an RBI double in the first inning.
Cameron exploded for seven runs in the bottom of the second to take an early 8-0 lead. The first four runs came on a grand slam off the bat of B. Busby, her second home run of the day and 41st of her career. After a
Khmari Edwards double,
Breley Webb and C. busby went back to back to bring three more homer for the Black and Gold.
The Falcons got one back in the top of the third, but CU quickly answered in the bottom of the frame as B. Busby drove in her fifth run of the game via a double to right center.
UTPB again scored a single run in the top of the fourth, but an inning and a half later, Edwards singled with the bases loaded to end the game 10-2.
Bethany Hines pitched a strong 4.2 innings for the Aggies, giving up just two runs on four hits, while striking out four in her 13th win of the year;
Turner Whorton recorded the final out in the fifth.
B. Busby went 2-3 with a run scored and five RBI to lead CU at the plate, while Webb and C. Busby both recorded two hits and two RBI; Edwards also had two hits.
Cameron is now 32-12 on the season and 19-8 in Lone Star Conference play. They are currently in fourth place in the league standings with just one more series to play. That series will be next Friday and Saturday, April 26-27, against Texas A&M-Commerce, who is currently tied for first in the LSC.
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