Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 STEPHENVILLE – Tarleton State hosted Texas A&M-Kingsville in its first home Lone Star Conference series of the season Friday night and took care of business with a doubleheader sweep of the Javelinas.
   
Randi Fentress kept the Javelinas in check from the pitching circle while a three-run fifth inning propelled the TexAnns to a 4-2 win over Kingsville in the first game.
 
The Javelinas scored first in the top of the fourth when an RBI single plated a runner from third, who led off the inning with a triple, to put Kingsville up 1-0.
 
Tarleton responded in the ensuing half inning when Arianna Rodriguez reached on an error and eventually moved to third after a sacrifice bunt and a stolen base. The senior shortstop came in to score off a sacrifice fly from Bailee Mauldin.
 
The TexAnns took control of the game with a three-run, two-out rally in the fifth inning – starting with Melody Mayse's first career home run to right center field.
 
After a walk and a single by Rachel Brownlow and Rodriguez, Amber Clifford drove in Brownlow with an RBI single up the middle to put Tarleton up 3-1. The TexAnns got their final run of the game on a Javelina error.
 
Texas A&M-Kingsville added one more run on a solo home run in the top of the seventh but was unable to get any more off Fentress.
 
The junior hurler earned her eighth win of the season by throwing a complete game allowing two runs on four hits and no walks with 10 strikeouts.
 
Tarleton mustered four hits on singles by Rodriguez, Clifford and Hannah Hancock and the home run by Mayse.
   
Brenna Hennan continued her mastery of the pitching circle at TSU Softball Complex by leading Tarleton to a 3-1 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville in the doubleheader nightcap Friday.
 
With the win, Hennan improved to 4-0 at home this season with four complete games, two shutouts, a 0.27 ERA and 36 strikeouts.
 
Tarleton struck first with two runs in the bottom of the second on back-to-back RBI singles from Shelby Tinklepaugh and Mayse to put the TexAnns up 2-0.
 
After Kingsville scored one in the top of the fifth on a sacrifice fly, Tarleton answered right back in the bottom of the fifth with a sacrifice fly of its own to keep the game at a two-run deficit.
 
Hennan kept Kingsville off the board the rest of the way en route to the win. She allowed one run on eight hits while striking out 11.
 
Tarleton compiled eight total hits with Mayse (3-4) recording a multi-hit game. Brownlow, Courtney Vroman, Mauldin, McKaylee Pittman and Tinklepaugh had the other hits for Tarleton.
 
The TexAnns will wrap up this three-game set with a 12 p.m. game against the Javelinas Saturday.