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19 - Cara Pitman (TAMUCC)
Juan DeLeon
6
Winner Houston Christian HCU 7-33
4
McNeese MCN 27-18
Winner
Houston Christian HCU
7-33
6
Final
4
McNeese MCN
27-18
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Houston Christian HCU 0 3 0 1 1 0 1 6 11 0
McNeese MCN 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 4 7 0

W: Pitman, Cara (2-13) L: Chapman, Kynlei (5-6)

2
Houston Christian HCU 7-34
10
Winner McNeese MCN 28-18
Houston Christian HCU
7-34
2
Final
10
McNeese MCN
28-18
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Houston Christian HCU 2 0 0 0 0 2 5 1
McNeese MCN 1 0 5 3 1 10 12 2

W: Taylor, Brookelyn (10-6) L: Prasifka, Addy (1-10)

Game Recap: Softball |

SB: HCU splits Wednesday twin-bill with McNeese

Huskies head to Commerce for second half of the week's rugged six-game road stretch



LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana --- Houston Christian University split a doubleheader with McNeese State University on Wednesday at Joe Miller Field at Cowgirl Diamond. The Huskies held off the Pokes for a 6-4 victory in the opener behind a gutsy effort in the circle from Cara Pitman before dropping the back-end of the pair 10-2.
 
HCU goes to 7-34 overall and 4-17 in the Southland on the campaign. The Huskies will hit the second half of this week's rugged six-game road stretch when they travel to Commerce to face East Texas A&M University in a three-game series. HCU and ETAMU will play a doubleheader on Friday followed by the finale at noon on Saturday.
 
All three games can be streamed on ESPN+.
 
GAME 1
 
HCU jumped out in front in the opener, pushing three runs across the plate in the second inning. Maddy Bailey opened the frame with a single, then moved to third on a single by Heidi Maytum. A wild pitch on ball four allowed Bailey to score and put Karlie Barba at first. Maytum and Barba would advance another base on a passed ball before an opposite field single by Chloe Foster brought home Maytum. Barba then crossed the dish on another wild pitch, giving HCU a 3-0 lead.
 
 
McNeese got one back in the bottom of the frame on an RBI groundout by Rylee Cloud to score Meiko Dominguez, who had doubled to begin the inning. HCU would reclaim the three-run lead in the top of the fourth as Madison Dominguez singled up the middle to score Karlie Barba from third.
 
 
McNeese scratched across another single run in the fifth as Corine Poncho singled home Cloud, who had doubled with one out. HCU answered again, as Chloe Foster ambushed the first pitch she saw for an RBI single with two outs in the top of the seventh, pushing HCU's lead back to four.
 
The Cowgirls tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh, pushing two runs home on RBI doubles from Poncho and Malayna Daigle, but that was all the hosts could muster as HCU held on.
 
Chloe Foster had her second three-hit game of the season to lead HCU, going 3-4 with two RBI, while Maddy Bailey and Madison Dominguez also had two-hit outings to aid an 11-hit attack to back a gutsy outing from Cara Pitman. The sophomore right-hander went the distance on 134 pitches, allowing seven hits and four runs with two walks and a punch-out for her second victory of the season.
 
Kynlei Chapman (5-6), the first of four pitchers used for McNeese, was tagged with the loss, going 1.1 innings and allowing three runs. Poncho went 2-3 with two RBI and Cloud added a 1-3 day with two runs scored.
 
GAME 2
 
HCU jumped on the board first, scoring twice in the first frame. Raenna Liscano and Jocelyn Briseno each reached on an error with both moving up a base on a wild pitch. Jade Moreno made the miscues pay the price, launching a two-run single to right center to give the Huskies a 2-0 lead.
 
That would be it for HCU however, as McNeese (28-18 | 12-9 SLC) scored 10 unanswered to salvage the doubleheader split and take the series. Corine Poncho had a two-run homer to left center to cap off a five-run third inning that gave the Cowgirls a 6-2 advantage, and her homer in the fifth finished off the run-rule victory.
 
Moreno was 1-2 with the two RBI, but the Huskies managed just five hits in the second game. Addy Prasifka took the loss, giving up six runs, two earned in 2.2 innings of work.
 
Poncho went 2-3 with the two homers and three RBI, one of four players with two hits in the game. Brookelyn Taylor went five innings with seven K's to pick up her 10th victory of the season.
 
 
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