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19 - Cara Pitman (ETAMU)
Julia Vega - ETAMU Athletics
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Winner Houston Christian HCU 8-34, 5-17 SLC
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East Texas AM ET 6-41, 1-21 SLC
Winner
Houston Christian HCU
8-34, 5-17 SLC
1
Final
0
East Texas AM ET
6-41, 1-21 SLC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Houston Christian HCU 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 1
East Texas AM ET 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1

W: Pitman, Cara (3-13) L: Olsen, Emma (0-6)

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Winner Houston Christian HCU 9-34, 6-17 SLC
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East Texas AM ET 6-42, 1-22 SLC
Winner
Houston Christian HCU
9-34, 6-17 SLC
5
Final
3
East Texas AM ET
6-42, 1-22 SLC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Houston Christian HCU 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 5 11 1
East Texas AM ET 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 3 1

W: Hammack, Leah (3-9) L: Masters, Victoria (0-7)

Game Recap: Softball |

SB: Huskies tame Lions, take both ends of twin-bill in Commerce

HCU claims first series of season, goes for sweep on Saturday at noon



COMMERCE, Texas --- Houston Christian University swept a doubleheader from East Texas A&M University at John Cain Family Softball Complex on Friday evening. Cara Pitman won a pitcher's duel in the opener 1-0 before the Huskies rallied for two runs in the seventh and make a winner of Leah Hammack with a 5-3 victory in the nightcap. The pair of victories insure the first series win of the season for the Huskies, who have taken three of their last four.
 
HCU goes to 9-34 overall and 6-17 in the Southland on the campaign. The Huskies and Lions (6-42 / 1-22 SLC) will finish off the series with a matinee beginning at noon on Saturday. HCU remains one game behind Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for the eighth and final postseason spot, as the Islanders took a pair from Northwestern State on Friday down the coast.
 
GAME 1
 
The two teams put up three straight scoreless frames to open the series before HCU broke through in the fourth. With two outs, the Huskies got three consecutive singles from Heidi Maytum, Karlie Barba and Chloe Foster, the final of which pushed across what would turn out to be the lone run of the contest.
 
 
Pitman was in total control throughout. She allowed only two Lions to touch second base in the game and got out of the sixth on just four pitches. After hurling a career-high 134 pitches in a win over McNeese on Wednesday, Pitman completed HCU's first shutout of the season with just 77 pitches, scattering five hits with one strikeout for her second straight win and third on the season.
 
Karlie Barba and Jade Moreno both went 2-3 while Chloe Foster was 1-3 with an RBI.
 
Emma Olsen was sharp in defeat, going the distance herself on a six-hitter while allowing the one run. Isabella Arzola and Tatum Wright each went 2-3 for the Lions.
 
GAME 2
 
In the nightcap, the Huskies struck early. Raenna Liscano led off with a single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and then to third on a wild pitch. None of the extra would end up mattering, as she would come to the plate on a blast to center by Maddy Bailey, whose second homer of the season gave HCU a 2-0 lead.
 
 
In the third, HCU tacked on another run as Jade Moreno's launched a solo homer high into the Commerce sky, giving the Huskies a 3-0 lead.
 
 
ETAMU finally got on the board with a single run in the bottom of the third on a sacrifice fly by Gracie Alejo that scored Layni Kimura, cutting the HCU lead to 3-1. In the sixth, KK Cosek reached on an error and one out later, Tatum Wright blasted her 14th homer of the season to knot things at three.
 
The deadlock didn't last long however. Jade Moreno reached on an error with two outs in the seventh, and Maddy Bailey broke the tie with a double to the wall in left center, scoring pitcher and pinch-runner Leah Hammack with the go-ahead run.
 
 
After a walk to Heidi Maytum, Karlie Barba added some insurance when she poked a single the opposite way to score Bailey and give HCU a two-run cushion, 5-3.
 
 
Hammack then set down the Lions in order in the seventh to preserve the victory and insure HCU's first conference series win of the season. She allowed just three hits on the evening and struck out three to earn her third win of the campaign.
 
Bailey recorded her second three-hit outing of the campaign and fifth of her career, going 3-4 with the homer, three RBI and two runs scored. It was her team-best ninth multi-hit game of the season. Barba was 2-4 with an RBI and Jade Moreno was 1-3 with her team-best fifth homer of the season.
 
Tatum Wright went 1-3 with two RBI for the Lions, while Victoria Masters took the loss, giving up 11 hits and five runs while walking three in seven innings.
 
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