Aggies get series sweep over Baker

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LAWTON, Okla. (Feb. 12) - Corey Stang's three-run homer in the bottom of the first helped neutralize a sluggish start for the Cameron baseball team Saturday at McCord Field.

Stang's blast over the left field wall erased a 3-0 Aggie deficit and helped propel Coach Todd Holland's squad to its third straight win to start the season with a 7-3 victory over Baker University. Saturday's scheduled second game of the doubleheader was suspended in the middle of the second inning, due to rain, and will not be rescheduled.

Cameron will look to continue its season-opening winning streak next weekend, travelling to Abilene Christian for a four-game set beginning Friday.

After spotting Baker brief leads in each of the first two games of the series, Cameron again gave the Wildcats the early advantage Saturday. The Aggies committed errors on the first two plays of the game and Baker added three hits, including a two-RBI single by Marc Burchard, to take a 3-0 lead.

But Cameron answered right back in the bottom half of the inning. After back-to-back singles by Cody Brooks and Derrick Mihecoby, Stang launched Nathan Schweitzer's offering to knot the score at 3-3. The Aggies added what proved to be the game-winning run in the bottom of the second, using an RBI single by Brooks to take a 4-3 lead.

Matt Castillo added an RBI single in the fourth and Mihecoby led off the bottom of the fifth with a solo homer to left to make it 6-3. Stang followed with a single and advanced to third on a throwing error and wild pitch before scoring Cameron's final run on a sacrifice fly by Clint Powell.

Eric Pilon (1-0) recovered from the shaky start to get the mound victory for the Aggies. After the first inning, Pilon scattered just two other hits and allowed no earned runs in four innings of work. Brad Passmore came on in the fifth, earning the Aggies' third save in as many chances by working three innings of one-hit ball.

Cameron trailed 2-1 early in the second game of Saturday's double-header. But steady rainfall, which began before the start of the second contest, finally made conditions unplayable midway through the second inning.