Lady Aggies fall in St. Mary's invite

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Feb. 4) - The Cameron softball team showed improvement each game, but still came away from the St. Mary's College Classic searching for its first win of the season.

Coach Brent Shaw's Lady Aggies posted just a .239 batting average for the weekend and dropped to 0-5 on Saturday, falling to Texas Woman's and St. Edward's.

Bethany Stefinsky led the Lady Aggies at the plate, collecting seven hits for a .467 batting average, while Shelby Davis posted a team-high five RBI. Stephanie Bour added the team's only triple and homerun of the weekend and finished with four RBI.

Cameron held a 3-1 lead over Texas Woman's through two innings before the Pioneers racked up five runs on six hits in the top of the third. The Lady Aggies chipped away, scoring once in the third on a Jen Morse RBI single and again in the fourth on an RBI single by Stefinsky. But TWU tacked on five more runs over the next two innings and held the Lady Aggies to just one hit over the final three frames to secure an 11-5 win.

Against St. Edward's, Cameron again held the lead but couldn't hold on. The Hilltoppers jumped on Lady Aggie starter Jessica Hutton to grab a 3-2 lead in the first and led 4-2 before Cameron took the lead with a four-run sixth. Bour followed Megan Young's two-run triple with the team's first home run of the season to grab a 6-4 advantage.

St. Edward's cut the lead to one with a run in the sixth, but still trailed 6-5 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh. That's when the Hilltoppers dealt their final blow, however, getting a walk-off three-run homer from Rebecca Ray to steal an 8-6 win.

The heartbreaking loss ended a weekend full of struggle for the Lady Aggies, who lost three games on Friday by a combined five runs. Cameron dropped a season-opening 4-6 decision to Delta State and lost 3-1 to Southern Arkansas and 4-3 to St. Mary's later in the day.

"The good thing that came out of this weekend is that we improved every game," Shaw said. "We played some very good teams here and that's going to make us better later in the season. Right now we just have to continue to work hard and correct the little things that prevented us from winning this weekend."

Cameron will look to rebound on Tuesday, travelling to Abilene, Texas, to take on Abilene Christian in a doubleheader scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.