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News > March 6
CAMERON
AND TWU HELD WITHOUT A
DECISION AFTER
SEVEN INNINGS OF PLAY
LAWTON,
OK—Texas
Woman's University (12-9-1) came from a five-run deficit
to tie their softball game with Cameron
(4-7-1) 8-8 after seven innings of play, but the
game was called because of darkness. This is the second tie
that the Pioneers have recorded since they reinstated softball
in 1997. TWU and Texas Tech played to a 1-1 tie
on Feb. 9, 1997. Jami Ingram (Richmond, BC/Blinn College) and Sarah
White (Lewisville, TX/Lewisville HS) both recorded
homeruns in the game.
“This was a unique game because both teams fought hard
and hit well at times, but we ended in a tie. We had to refocus
our team after four innings and make some defensive changes
because the kids were not playing well. I told the team to
play this game one-half inning at a time, and that seemed to
relax them,” head coach Dianne Baker said. “The
team started playing better in the late innings and were able
to
come back and tie the game because they started doing the things
that a team needs to do to win ball games. Jami and
Sarah hit very well for us tonight and Amanda Chambless
pitched a great game.”
Ingram
stepped up to the plate in the top of the second inning and
broke the scoreless tie with her fifth homerun of
the season. Cameron took the lead in the bottom half of the
inning when Karen Hatch doubled down the left field line, scoring
two runs. Two batters later, Cheryl Wyrick hit the Aggies second
double of the inning, scoring Hatch and making the score 1-3.
Cameron added another run in the third, then exploded
for four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to take an
8-3 lead.
White
started the comeback in the top of the fifth inning for TWU
when she hit her first collegiate homerun over the
left field fence. Jennifer Collins (Forney, TX/ Grayson
C.C.) made the score 5-8 when she hit a sacrifice fly to
center field, allowing Sascha Taylor (Mansfield, TX/Stephen
F. Austin) to cross the plate. In the next at-bat, Jami
Ingram doubled in Nikki Boudreaux (Orange, Tex./Navarro
College) for her second RBI of the game. Rachel Townsend
(Jacksonville, AR/ Jacksonville H.S.) ended the Pioneers
scoring when she knocked in Ingram from second base with a
RBI-single. Both teams went scoreless in the sixth inning,
but TWU tied the game up in the top of the seventh when Ingram
hit a RBI-single to score Courtney Phillips (Plano, TX/St.
Edward's Univ.) from second base. Starting pitcher Amanda
Chambless (Collinsville, TX/Collinsville H.S.) retired
the final three Cameron batters to preserve the 8-8 tie.
Ingram
was a triple away from hitting for the cycle as she finished
three for three from the plate with a single,
a double, a homerun and three RBI. Teresa Flores (Corpus
Christi, TX/Miller H.S.) went one for four with an RBI
while White finished the game going two for three with
a homerun and an RBI. Chambless pitched seven innings
and allowed eight runs on eight hits while striking out one
batter in the no-decision.
Up
next, TWU host three straight double headers next week at
Pioneer Field. On Tuesday, March 11, the Pioneers will face
Texas Wesleyan at 4:30 p.m., then play Newman University
on Wednesday, March 12 at 5:00 p.m. After a day off, TWU will
host St. Edward's University on Friday, March 14 with a start
time of 1 p.m. The Pioneers' home double header with Cameron,
which was postponed because of rain on Feb. 26, will be replayed
on Wednesday, April 2 at 5 p.m. with only one game.
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