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WICHITA FALLS, Texas – The Angelo State softball team took game one of its Lone Star Conference series with No. 19 Midwestern State, 8-2, on Friday night at Mustangs Park.
 
The Rambelles used a big third inning and rode the arm of Mary Kate McKay to move to 21-8 and 6-1 in the Lone Star Conference.
 
“Mary Kate McKay and her defense had a great night against a hot-hitting team,” head coach Travis Scott said after the win. “In the seven-run third inning, the entire line-up chipped in and it was a great team win tonight.”
 
The junior held Midwestern State (20-8, 4-3), the nation's No. 1 team in both batting average and slugging percentage, to only four hits and two runs. McKay forced 11 ground outs and only one of the runs was earned.
                                                                
ASU was held scoreless through the first two innings by Laci Belovsky of MSU. Belovsky would strike out two and scatter two singles to Morgan Spearman and Kacie Easley to start the third before the Rambelles dialed in at the plate.
 
The entire lineup would see the plate at least once in the third with ASU scoring seven runs on six hits after the second out of the inning. Rachel Moore, Darian Dunn, Carly Peters and Ambra Hill would all single and score. Lanie Robinson reached by getting plunked and she would cross the plate. Spearman would get her second hit of the inning that scored Hill to make it 7-0 after three innings.
 
Midwestern State got to McKay in the fourth scoring two runs on two hits and an error in the inning to cut it to 7-2.
 
The Rambelles would tack on another run in the top of the seventh inning after back-to-back doubles by Robinson and Brittney Davis to give ASU an 8-2 advantage.
 
McKay would sit down the Mustangs in order in the seventh to secure the victory.
 
The two teams will play a doubleheader tomorrow with first pitch scheduled for 12 p.m.