Wichita Falls, Texas – The Angelo State softball team started their longest road trip of the season with a pair of victories over Midwestern State, winning game one 11-5 before taking game two 4-2. In both contests, the Rambelles started slowly but eventually righted the ship.
The Mustangs hit a solo home run in the bottom of the opening inning of game one to take an early lead, one they would hold until the third inning.
Paxton Scheurer singled with one out in the third to set up
Ashlynn Box, who homered for the eighth time this season to give the Rambelles the lead; the Mustangs would respond in the bottom half of the inning with two runs of their own to retake the lead.
The Rambelles would then score in every inning for the rest of the game. The fourth inning saw four runs score via a bases-loaded walk, a fielder's choice, a sacrifice fly, and a
Lindsey Evans RBI single.
Keilei Garcia led off the fifth inning with a single, with her pinch runner
Ashton McMillan scoring on a
Maleya Burns two-run home run, her second of the season.
Scheurer led off the next with a home run down the left-field line; Evans would record her second RBI single of the game later in the inning to make it 10-3.
The Mustangs tallied an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth; Burns would end the Rambelles' scoring in the top of the seventh with a lead-off solo home run before the Mustangs would pull a run back in the final frame.
The Rambelles' right fielder recorded her first multi-homer game and is the fourth game in which she has recorded three hits in a single game. After starting the season 2-for-31 (.065) at the plate, the Washington native has been 7-for-15 (.467) since last weekend's UT Tyler series.
Genesis Armendariz started in the circle but only lasted three innings, allowing three hits, three runs, and two strikeouts before making way for
Torrey Hogan. Hogan would only allow a hit and a walk in two innings of relief to pick up her 10
th win of the season.
Sierra Schottler threw the final two innings, allowing two hits and an earned run.
Mustangs' game two starter in the circle, Kennedy Cameron, proved to be a challenging puzzle to solve for the Rambelles at the plate as she held the Rambelles to only a single hit in her first six innings of work, the lone hit being a
Madison Fernandez single to lead off the second inning.
The Mustangs held a 1-0 lead courtesy of a solo home run in the third inning entering the final frame.
Burns led off the seventh inning with a single before
Bailey Martinez reached on an error by Cameron.
Ashlyn Lerma walked to load the bases for Schuerer, who cleared them off for her 19
th home run and her first grand slam.
The third baseman has driven in 59 runs this season, and her 19 home runs puts her in a tie for the second-most home runs in a season in program history.
The Mustangs would single in a run to put the final score at 4-2.
Hogan would collect her second win in as many games, throwing a complete game in which she scattered nine hits and two runs while striking out six.
The Rambelles are now 27-7 overall on the season and 12-6 in conference play. On Sunday, they are in action against Texas Woman's, who are coming off a pair of losses to Lubbock Christian.