STEPHENVILLE – Tarleton got the day started with a win over No. 21 Cameron in the first game Saturday to secure a series win before ultimately splitting the doubleheader with No. 21 Cameron.
 
"I'm glad we were able to get the series, but to not finish off the sweep was disappointing," said head coach Mark Cumpian. "We had our chances but we didn't take advantage of them and we let them off the hook. We'll come back at it next week and keep working."
   
Karli Herron went yard twice to back Jordan Withrow's 10^th pitching victory of the year as Tarleton won the series with a 6-4 victory against No. 21 Cameron to begin Saturday's twin bill.
 
The game started with a scoreless first inning before Herron got Tarleton on the board with a solo blast in the bottom of the second.
 
The scoring came in bunches over the next three innings.
 
Cameron tied it with a run in the third before Megan Durante ripped a single up the middle to bring home Georgia Capell for a 2-1 lead after three. Cameron retook the lead with two in the fourth but Herron and the TexAnns had an answer for that too as the junior teed off for a two-run blast to put the TexAnns up 4-3 after four.
 
Cameron had one more answer with a solo home run in the fifth, but Tarleton had the final say when pinch-hitters Destiny Crumpley and Amanda Conner cashed in with an RBI each. Crumpley ripped an RBI single over the head of the right fielder before Conner brought in an insurance run with a sacrifice fly to put the TexAnns on top 6-4.
 
Cameron threatened with a leadoff single in the sixth, but Nyka Wood and Elizabeth Svienty teamed up to throw snuff out that base runner at second. The Aggies led off the seventh with a baserunner too, but Withrow followed up the leadoff walk by striking out the side to finish the game.
 
Withrow improved to 10-4 on the season with her 10^th complete game of the season. The sophomore hurler struck out seven while allowing four runs – only one earned – on five hits and four walks.
 
Herron led the way offensively, going 2-2 with two runs scored and three RBI, while Capell and Megan Durante also boasted two-hit performances. Nyka Wood, Tanna Huie, Marisa Flores, and Crumpley had one hit each to round out the 10-hit attack.
   
The game was a pitcher's duel at 2-1 through six innings but Cameron took advantage of some Tarleton miscues in the seventh inning and scored six unanswered runs to take the series finale 8-1.
 
Cameron scored one in the first and one in the fourth while Tarleton managed only one run in the second inning – despite having bases loaded with no outs – on an RBI single from Elizabeth Svienty to push a run across. The 2-1 score held up until Cameron plated its six in the seventh.
 
Tarleton had its chances, however, as the TexAnns stranded nine baserunners for the game including the bases loaded in the second and the sixth.
 
Haley Freyman took the loss in six innings of work, over which she allowed five runs – three earned – on seven hits and no walks while striking out six.
 
Tarleton had four hits for the game, one each from Durante, Huie, Herron, and Svienty.
 
The TexAnns will head to Tahlequah on Tuesday for a 1 p.m. doubleheader before making a league journey to Kingsville next weekend.