LAWTON – Aggies dominate game one, fall shot in game two comeback to split Saturday's doubleheader against St. Edward's, winning 10-1 and losing 6-3.
Less than 24 hours after hosting No. 23 St. Mary's for a pair of Lone Star Conference battles that resulted in a split, Cameron welcomed the Hilltoppers to McMahon Field for two more games to close out the weekend.
In game one, SEU struck first, scoring a run in the opening frame. Cameron answered by scoring single runs in the first three innings.
Khmari Edwards provided the first on a solo homer while
Ashlynn Bruce reached on a fielder's choice with the bases loaded in the second that brought home another run. The run in the third scored on a bases loaded walk drawn by freshman
Kaiden Boren.
The Aggies then exploded for a 7-run frame in the fourth, getting three on a Boren 3-run blast, her fifth of the season.
Starter
Breley Webb needed just two of those runs in support as she struck out a season-high 10 batters while giving up just the one run on four hits and two walks for her sixth win of the season.
Webb also led CU with three hits while Edwards, Boren, and
Maci McMurtrey each had two hits for Cameron, who totaled nine hits in the winning effort.
Edwards and
Kylie French teamed up to give Aggies a 1-0 lead in the first inning of game two, as French drove in her fellow junior on a sacrifice fly.
St. Edward's answered by scoring single runs in the second and third and then three more in the fifth to take a 5-1 lead.
Haley Castle got one of those runs back on a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth, her sixth of the season, but the Hilltoppers answered with a run in the top of the sixth to extend their lead back out to four.
Cameron tried to mount a comeback in the bottom of the seventh, as
Josie Swafford led off the frame with a hit and then
Kelsye Loughman was hit and Castle walked to load the bases with one out. After a strikeout for the second out, Edwards beat out an infield single to cut the SEU lead in half, but the visiting starter McKenna Leamon got a strike-three call on the inside corner for the third out to end the game.
The Aggies managed just six hits against Leamon while striking out nine times. Edwards and Castle each had two hits in the game.
In the circle, Swafford struck out six SEU batters with two of the five runs she gave up being earned.
Jocelyn Bright struck out four in the final 2.2 innings of the game.
Cameron now sits at 17-13 overall this season and 5-7 in conference games. Their home stretch continues next week when the host Texas Woman's on Friday, March 25, and then Texas Woman's on Sunday, March 27.
