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19 - Cara Pitman (137)
Juan DeLeon
9
Winner Houston Christian HCU 15-29, 8-16 SLC
4
Lamar LU 27-22, 14-10 SLC
Winner
Houston Christian HCU
15-29, 8-16 SLC
9
Final
4
Lamar LU
27-22, 14-10 SLC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Houston Christian HCU 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 5 9 14 2
Lamar LU 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 3

W: Pitman, Cara (8-9) L: R. Smith (9-7)

Game Recap: Softball |

SB: HCU rallies for extra-inning win in rubber game to take series from Lamar

Three-hit games from Savage and Bailey highlight nine unanswered runs that back gutsy effort in circle from Pitman



BEAUMONT, Texas --- In the words of the immortal Randy Savage …
 
"Oooooooooooh yeaaaaaaaaah."
 
After rallying to send the game to extra innings, Houston Christian University exploded for five runs in the top of the ninth to capture their second straight come-from-behind victory with a 9-4 win over Lamar University on Good Friday at the LU Softball Complex. Haylie Savage tied the game in the seventh with an RBI single, then put the Huskies ahead with a two-run homer in the ninth to help back a gutsy 137-pitch complete-game effort from Cara Pitman that gave HCU the rubber game victory.
 
Lamar jumped out early, putting a single run on the board in the second inning on a sacrifice fly from Kalie Amos. The hosts had two more cross after two outs in the third, one on an error and the second on an RBI single to center from Ava Blakely.
 
Jayne Sepulveda would tack on a fourth run in the fourth, beating out an infield single that scored Makenzie Wright from third.
 
The Huskies would climb back into the game with a three-spot in the sixth. Three straight one-out singles by Karlie Barba, Heidi Maytum and Maddy Bailey produced the first tally, and Hanna York followed with a sacrifice fly to cut the deficit in half, 4-2. Ella Herrewig then laced a single to center to score Bailey and get HCU to within one, 4-3.
 

In the seventh, HCU tied it up. Jaycee Foor led the inning off by working a full-count free pass, and was then sacrificed to second by Jocelyn Briseno. Haylie Savage then brought Foor around with a base knock to right center to make it 4-4.
 

The Cardinals threatened in the eighth, getting a leadoff single by Ava Blakely, who then moved to second on a sacrifice. One out later, Kalie Amos lofted a ball to center field that was Maddy Bailey made a game-saving diving grab that sent things on into the ninth.
 

With one out in the ninth, Briseno laced a single to center to bring up Savage, who then smashed a two-run homer to centerfield, her fourth of the season that gave HCU a 6-4 lead.
 

Heidi Maytum then followed with a single to left, and one out later, Maddy Bailey cranked a double to right field to push across Maytum with a 7-4 HCU lead.
 
HCU wasn't quite done, as Hanna York then ran into one, yanking her first career dinger over the left field wall to give the Huskies a 9-4 lead and cap off nine unanswered runs for the visitors over the final four frames to claim the win.

 


The comeback made a winner of Cara Pitman (8-9) after she went the full nine, tossing 137 pitches while scattering eight hits and two earned runs with a career-best five strikeouts. After Lamar took the 4-0 lead in the fourth, Pitman allowed just three hits the rest of the way while awaiting the bats to awake.
 
Haylie Savage went 3-5 with the homer and three RBI for her fourth three-hit game of the season and 11th of her career. The homer was her 22nd, putting her into seventh place all-time by herself.
 
Maddy Bailey posted her first three-hit game of the season and third of her career, going 3-5 as well with a double, two runs and two RBI. She also had two of the biggest defensive plays in the game, first with the diving grab to end the eighth and then in the ninth by throwing out Gracee Hess at third trying to stretch a leadoff double.



Heidi Maytum, Ella Herrewig and Jocelyn Briseno each had two hits, while York hit her first career homer and drove in three runs on the day to give her 20 on the season, the most for a freshman since 2018.
 
Ava Blakely and Makenzie Wright each had two hits for the Cardinals (27-22, 14-10 SLC). Lamar senior starter Sabrina Jolin was strong, going 5.1 innings and allowing just one earned run. Reagan Smith (9-7) was saddled with the loss, giving up four runs on five hits in 2.2 innings.
 
The Huskies have won two in a row and are now 15-29 overall and 8-16 in the Southland. HCU returns to action on Tuesday across town against University of Houston before finishing up the regular season with a three-game conference series against East Texas A&M University next Friday and Saturday at Husky Field.
 
 
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