Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ODESSA – After an eight-run thrashing in game one, a three-run game-winning home run from birthday girl, Amber Clifford, and a near-perfect game from Brenna Hennan sealed the deal on a doubleheader sweep over Texas-Permian Basin Tuesday.
 
"Hailey Wooten did a great job behind the plate today," said Tarleton head coach Julie Mata. "Randi and Brenna pitched great and Amber had a game-winning home run on her birthday. It was a good day for us."
   
Randi Fentress dealt from the pitching circle in Tuesday's first game while the TexAnn offense provided a healthy advantage en route to a 9-1 victory over the Falcons.
 
Neither team was able to crack the scoreboard in the first two innings but Tarleton finally broke through in the third when Taylor Wells drove home a pair of runs on a 2-RBI single up the middle with the bases juiced to plate Kelsey Horton and Mikayla Stogsdill for a 2-0 lead.
 
After a scoreless fourth, Tarleton poured it on with a three-run top of the fifth.
 
The top two hitters of the TexAnn lineup opened the inning with a second and third, no-out situation after a single and stolen base from Melody Mayse and Stogsdill. Wells drove in Mayse with a single to left for her third RBI of the day.
 
The next two runs of the inning came across on an error with two outs, making it a 5-0 Tarleton advantage.
 
The Falcons broke through with a two-out, RBI single to center field in the fifth to make it 5-1, which lasted through the sixth inning before the TexAnns pulled away with a four-spot in the top of the seventh.
 
Kelsey Latta plated one run on a two-out RBI single up the middle to bring home Rachel Brownlow before freshman Hailey Wooten, in her first game of her Tarleton career, unloaded the bases with a 3-RBI single for the final runs of the game.
 
Fentress sat down the Falcons in order in the bottom of the seventh, with two strikeouts, to seal the deal in game one. The senior hurler evened her record at 9-9 with her 14^th complete game of the season. She pitched all seven innings allowing one run on three hits with seven strikeouts.
 
Stogsdill, Wells and Latta each had two hits while Mayse, Clifford and Wooten had the rest of Tarleton's nine hits in the game.
   
In the nightcap, Amber Clifford highlighted her birthday with her first home run of the season to win the game in support of the near perfecto from Tarleton starter Brenna Hennan en route to the doubleheader sweep.
 
Neither team had more than one runner left on base over the first five innings of the game in an old-fashioned pitcher's duel between Hennan and UTPB's Holly Herrington. A Mayse bunt single to lead off the game was the only offense for either team in the first five innings.
 
Tarleton got on the board in the sixth when Stogsdill and Katelyn Conlee extended an inning with two outs on back-to-back singles to left field, setting up Clifford's three-run bomb to left center for a 3-0 Tarleton lead.
 
Meanwhile, Hennan was perfect through the first six innings before a double to lead off the seventh ended the bid. The junior from Burkburnett rebounded with two groundouts and a foul out to secure the complete game shutout.
 
For Hennan, this is her eighth complete game of the season and a team-leading third shutout. She also had three strikeouts while the TexAnn defense played error-free softball behind Hennan.
 
All four hits from the TexAnn offense came from the top of the order as hitters No. 1-4 supplied one hit each from Mayse, Stogsdill, Conlee and Clifford.
 
Tarleton will look to bring the momentum home this weekend when they host Cameron Friday and Saturday for back-to-back doubleheaders beginning at 3 p.m. Friday and 12 p.m. Saturday.