LAWTON – On Senior Day, the Aggie softball team entertained the crowd at McMahon Field with an offensive clinic in game one and a walk-off win in game two of a doubleheader sweep of UT Permian Basin.
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Sunday afternoon the Cameron softball team recognized their four departing seniors
Haley Castle,
Madyson Marvulli,
Breley Webb, and student manager
Skylar McCord. They then proceeded to score 17 runs in game one against the Falcons and then got a seventh inning rally capped by a Webb walk-off hit to go 4-0 on the weekend.Â
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Despite the massive performance at the plate by the Aggies in game one, it was the Falcons who scored first, getting two runs across on two hits and two errors in the opening frame.Â
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The Aggies scored a run on an error in the bottom of the first and put up their first of two 3-run frames in the second. All three runs came on the long ball as
Kaiden Boren, who had two grand slams in Friday's game one, hit her third homer of the weekend, a 2-run shot, and then
Haley Castle followed with a solo homer.Â
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After UTPB got one of those runs back in the top of the third, Boren came through again by driving in three runs on a ball over the right field fence, making it 7-3 in favor of the home team.Â
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Cameron then had one of their biggest innings in recent history in the fourth, scoring 10 runs on 10 hits in the frame. It all started when Boren unloaded the bases on a triple, giving her eight RBI for the game, her second 8-RBI performance of the weekend.Â
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Now leading 10-3,
Madyson Marvulli delivered on her senior ay with a RBI single, which was followed by run scoring single by
Maci McMurtrey.
Khmari Edwards then brought two more runs across the plate on a double, making it seven straight Aggies to reach base.
Kayla Adams went to the bench with two outs and
Grace Myers came through with a RBI double to score Edwards.
Breley Webb capped off the frame with a 2-run homer to straight away center.Â
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Webb also got her 11th win of the season and 30th of her career in the circle on Sunday. Two of the runs scored were earned as the Falcons got seven hits but did not draw a walk against the fourth-year southpaw.Â
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In game two, the Aggies were the first to score, getting a run on a UTPB error in the first, but the road team answered with single runs in the second, third, and fifth innings to take a 3-1 lead.Â
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After being held scoreless for four innings, the Cameron seniors took matters into their own hands to mount a comeback. In the sixth, Webb walked to leadoff the frame and then Castle drove in pinch-runner
Alyssa Deanda to pull CU within one.Â
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Cameron started the seventh with another leadoff walk, this time by McMurtrey. After stealing second, McMurtrey came in to score on an Edwards RBI double that tied the game at three. Two batters later, Webb came up big again with a single up the middle to drive in Edwards and win the game 4-3.Â
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Unlike the first game where the Aggies recorded 17 hits, the CU bats were held to just six hits in game two, but they all came at the right time against UTPB starter Danielle Trahan. Boren added to her impressive weekend with her seventh hit and sixth for extra-bases over the 4-game span.Â
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Josie Swafford struck out 10 Falcon hitters in the start, but it was
Jocelyn Bright who recorded the final out in the seventh and earned her seventh win of the season.Â
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Cameron's senior trio of Webb, Castle, and Marvulli combined for eight hits, six RBI, and six runs scored during the Senior Day doubleheader.Â
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Now 25-17 overall and 13-11 in Lone Star Conference play, the Aggies will have next weekend off before facing their toughest stretch of the season by visiting No. 13 Texas A&M-Commerce on April 22 and No. 1 UT Tyler on April 24 before returning home to host No. 19 Oklahoma Christian to close out the regular season.Â
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