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The last home series of the season for the Lady Buffs was a weekend full of important events for the team on April 20-21. The “Strike Out Cancer” weekend sponsored by Texas Oncology was also senior weekend and a battle for the second spot in the Lone Star Conference standings.

Texas Woman’s University started the scoring in-game one on Friday night. WTAMU wouldn’t let the Pioneers take a breath, scoring two runs in the second for a 3-1 lead. The next few innings was a battle of wills as TWU picked up four runs to take a 5-3 lead before WT tied up the game. The Lady Buffs ended the scoring in the fourth inning, taking an 8-5 lead that would hold for the rest of the seven-inning game.

TWU started the second Friday night game scoring in the first inning. The teams battled back and forth throughout the game to get the lead. It looked like WT would pick up the win in the fifth inning when they took a 5-4 lead due to an incorrect scorecard and added another run in the six inning. However, the Pioneers came back and score five runs in the seventh to win the game 9-6.  Senior Marci Womack was recorded as the pitcher for both of Friday night’s games, taking her record to 19-9. Continue reading →

The No. 25 Lady Buffs won their eighth straight game in impressive fashion on April 17 at Lady Buff Yard. The softball team took on the Eastern New Mexico Zias for the third time in a week and played their third game in 72 hours.

The team started off the scoring with the first player to the plate when Alyssa Lemos sent one over the wall in left center field for a solo homerun. Meghan Brown and Renee Erwin added to that total, bringing in two runners each to leave the first inning up 5-0.

The third inning really saw the Lady Buffs shine as they scored 15 runs on 18 batters. The team showed that they worked well under pressure, scoring 13 of the runs with two outs on the board. The women left the inning with a 20-0 lead. Continue reading →

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The No. 25 Lady Buffs had a weekend to remember during three days full of games at home and away.

The softball team started their weekend Friday night in Lawton, Okla., at Cameron University. The team started off with a home run to bring home two runners in the first inning before the game suffered a short rain delay going into the second. The Aggies cut the lead in half at the bottom of the second but the Lady Buffs used three more home runs with multiple runs in multiple innings to take the game with a score of 10-3.

Saturday’s doubleheader brought in the first of the Lady Buffs’ two records for the weekend. Kim LeComte brought in Meghan Slattery in the second inning to become the LSC career leader in RBIs. The game was a wild and entertaining seven-inning affair with both teams going back and forth in scoring. Continue reading →

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In an important series for the No. 24 Lady Buffs, they took on Incarnate Word for a three-game series at home last weekend.

WTAMU dominated the Cardinals in the first game. The Lady Buffs recorded their first run in the bottom of the third off an Allie Cranfill blast. The team wouldn’t look back, getting two more runs in the fifth and making the highlights with five runs to end the game in the sixth inning. The team ended with a shutout against IWU 8-0 with Marci Womack picking up the win with just three hits.

The second game would again be the Cranfill show as she recorded her ninth home run of the season to bring Lacy Seidl and Alyssa Lemos home in the second for a 3-0 lead. The Lady Buffs got a five-run lead before the Cardinals got their first run to take the score to 5-1 in the top of the fourth. However, the Lady Buffs used the seven innings to take the game 7-4. Womack would get her 13th win of the season, only giving up seven hits and two walks.

Saturday afternoon the Lady Buff Yard saw the team attempt a shut out of Incarnate Word, but the game didn’t go as planned. The Cardinals started the scoring in the third and scored in the next two innings to take the lead to 3-0. The sixth inning had no scoring, but IWU put three more runs on the board in the top of the seventh.

The Lady Buffs made a tremendous comeback at the bottom of the seventh when Renee Erwin plated Whitney Midkiff for their first run of the game. Two batters later, Lacey Seidl sent one to center field to score two more runs. However, the Lady Buffs fell short in the last game of the series, ending with a score of 6-3. Amber Spencer picked up the loss in the circle, allowing 11 hits.

“This was a very important weekend,” Outfielder Lacey Seidl said. “We had the same record coming in [as IWU] and I think we played very well. Marci pitched both games very well but then again, we strung hits together and we played as a team.”

The series took the softball team’s record to 25-15 overall and 9-9 in the Lone Star Conference. They return to the field on April 10 against Eastern New Mexico in Portales, N.M. at 3 p.m.

“These last few weekends are going to be crucial, especially this coming up week,” Seidl said. “We’re on the road and as our record shows, we’ve been struggling on the road so it’s important we come out and play like we can play. We can’t just go off and slack it, especially with Eastern. We have to win no matter what.”