LAWTON – Late miscues and free passes cost the Aggies as they lost their second non-conference game against Southwestern Oklahoma State on Tuesday, 12-5. 
 
Cameron baseball began the 2022 season with just two non-Lone Star Conference contests on the schedule, both against the Bulldogs. The two met up in Weatherford on March 1 with SWOSU coming away with a 16-6 win. Tuesday, The Dawgs spoiled CU's half of the home-and-home slate by scoring six runs in the final two innings. 
 
Head coach Kyle Williams gave the ball to freshman Matthew Scott to make the start on the mound. The first-year player struck out two batters and was helped out by Nik Sanchez catching a runner stealing second to end the first. 
 
In the second, walks and a CU error cost Scott a trio of 2-out runs and then SWOSU came back and scored two more in the third with both runs that scored reaching on walks to lead off the frame. 
 
Cameron battled back in the fifth with back-to-back singles by Ryan Carter and Tylar Scott. After a strikeout, Sanchez, who threw out another runner to end the top of the frame, clobbered a 3-run homer to left, his first of the season, to get his team to within two runs. 
 
Both teams scored single runs in the sixth on solo homers. The Bulldogs' came off the bat of Enzo Bonventre and CU's came via Jordan Harrison-Dudley, his team-leading eighth of the season, to lead off the bottom of the inning. 
 
SWOSU put two more runs up in the top of the eighth with two runners reaching on free passes (one walk and a hit by pitch) and one of the runs scoring on a wild pitch. 
 
The Aggies answered with another single run in the bottom of the frame with Ryan Allen smacking a 2-out double to right center that brought home Zac DeLong, making it 8-5. 
 
Southwestern put the dagger in the home team in the ninth when they scored four runs on four hits before CU went 3-up, 3-down in the bottom of the final frame to end the game 12-5. 
 
Cameron's eight hits were spread across eight different bats with Sanchez, Harrison-Dudley, and Allen collecting the team's RBIs. The lineup combined to strike out seven times and stranded six on base. 
 
Williams used seven arms to get through the 9-inning contest. M. Scott struck out three batters in his two innings, while both Evan Nichols and Carter Bourg struck out a pair in their 2-inning outings. 
 
Cameron is now 10-18 on the season and will get back to league play this weekend when they host Oklahoma Christian for a 4-game series. Game one of the set is scheduled for Friday, April 1, at 2 p.m. at McCord Field.