STEPHENVILLE – Tarleton won two games in the two-most opposite ways possible Sunday afternoon – a 2-1 pitcher's duel in the first game and a 14-5 rout on a season-high 17 base hits in game two – to claim the series victory over No. 22 Cameron in Stephenville.
 
"I'm so proud of the fight we played with today," said head coach Julie Mata. "Haley pitched great and we really barreled up the ball when we needed to the most."
  
Haley Freyman continued her phenomenal sophomore season by pitching Tarleton to its second win of the series over No. 22 Cameron Sunday afternoon.
 
Freyman, who tossed her 26^th complete game of the season and the 39^th of her Tarleton career, earned her 42^nd career victory – moving her into a tie for fifth place in TexAnn Softball history with Randi Fentress – after throwing seven innings of one-run softball against the Aggies. Over her seven innings of work, Freyman allowed just five hits and two walks while striking out four.
 
Tarleton and Cameron traded goose eggs over the first two frames before the TexAnns cracked the run column in the bottom of the third when Freyman's battery mate – catcher Nyka Wood – cashed in with a bases-loaded double to the right-gap to bring home Melody Mayse and Lauren Powers for a 2-0 Tarleton lead.
 
That lead is all Freyman would need as the sophomore was in complete control the rest of the way, outside of an RBI double in the fifth that plated the Aggies' only run of the game.
 
With Tarleton leading 2-1 in the top of the seventh, the Aggies threatened with a leadoff walk, an error and a single that ultimately gave Cameron runners on the corners with just one away. Avery Mullendore came to the rescue by firing a strike to the plate from second base to throw out the potentially tying run at home to keep Tarleton on top 2-1. Freyman then got a line drive right into the glove of Savannah Stech at third base to secure the win for Tarleton.
 
Tarleton had six hits in the game, led by two-hit efforts from Mayse and Wood while Alyssa Ringhausen and Stech each had one single.
 
Also, with two steals in the game, Melody Mayse moved into first place on the school's all-time stolen base list – passing Amanda Smith.
  
In the series finale, the TexAnn bats provided Freyman with plenty of run support in the largest hit output of the season to blast the No. 22 Aggies 14-5 and earn the series win in Stephenville.
 
After Freyman sat down the Aggies in the first inning, the offense jumped all over Cameron starter Sonora Zukerman, who pitched Cameron's only win of the series Friday night. The TexAnns exacted their revenge on the senior right-hander by putting up a seven spot – all with two outs – in the bottom of the first to chase her after just two-thirds of an inning.
 
Lauren Powers got a bunt single for the first Tarleton hit of the game in between a groundout and a fly ball out but then the TexAnn offense turned up the heat. Katelyn Conlee ripped an RBI double, Alyssa Ringhausen singled into left, Savannah Stech walked, and then Avery Mullendore cleared the bases with an RBI triple to right center. Mullendore then scored on a passed ball.
 
Rebeka Allen kept the inning alive by getting hit with a pitch before Delaney Wayland plated her with an RBI double. Wayland scored on an RBI double from Melody Mayse to cap off the two-out offensive surge at 7-0.
 
Tarleton went on to add two in the second on a Nyka Wood leadoff home run and an illegal pitch with Conlee on third. The TexAnns continued to pour it on with three more in the third on RBIs from Conlee, Ringhausen, and Mullendore. Mullendore drove in a team-high four RBIs in the game on a 2-for-4 day at the dish.
 
Cameron scored three in the fourth and two in the fifth while the TexAnns added two more of their own in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI triple from Mayse and an RBI groundout by Powers for the final Tarleton run of the afternoon.
 
Meanwhile, Freyman notched her 20^th win of the season with a complete game performance – over which she allowed five runs, only four earned, on nine hits and no walks while striking out six.
 
Tarleton will look to keep the momentum going next weekend with a trip to Texas A&M-Kingsville in the final road series of the regular season. First pitch is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Friday.