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Aggies win rubber match with Savage Storm

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LAWTON, Okla. (April 23) - After a Jeckyl-and-Hyde performance Saturday against Southeastern Oklahoma State, the Cameron baseball team rebounded to win the rubber match of its three-game series with the Savage Storm on Sunday.

Matt Machinski led a 13-hit offensive attack and Ryan Bengert picked up his fifth save of the year, as the Aggies won the nine-inning affair, 9-7. The win improved Coach Todd Holland's squad to 30-19 overall, marking Cameron's first 30-win season in baseball since 1992. It also moved the Aggies back into a tie atop the Lone Star Conference North Division standings, as Central Oklahoma dropped a 9-8 decision to Southwestern Oklahoma on Sunday.

A senior from Oklahoma City, Machinski went 3-for-4 at the plate with two doubles and three RBI. Three other Aggies recorded two hits in the game.

Four Cameron pitchers combined to hold the Savage Storm at bay. Reliever Ryan Whiteley moved to 2-0 on the year with the win, striking out one and allowing three runs on seven hits in five innings of work. Bengert entered in the top of the ninth and retired all three batters he faced to earn the save.

Southeastern jumped out to a 3-0 lead on David Newell's two-run single in the second, but the Aggies answered with four runs in the bottom half of the inning to take the lead. Machinski doubled in a pair of runs before scoring on Waylon Pettet's single. Pettet then scored on Blake Hughes' two-out double to right-center to put the Aggies up 4-3.

The Savage Storm scored runs in each of the next three innings to go back on top 6-4, but the Aggies again put together a big inning to regain the lead. After the first two Cameron hitters in the bottom of the fifth were retired, the Aggies launched a two-out barrage. Josh Mathiesen plated a run with a single through the left side and scored on Machinski's second double of the game. Trey Chambers then produced what turned out to be the game-winning hit, dropping a single into center field to score two and put the Aggies up 8-6.

Southeastern got within one on Daniel Hoegh's solo homer in the sixth, giving the Savage Storm runs in each of the first six innings. But Whiteley settled in and Ryan Totte worked a scoreless eighth inning before yielding to Bengert.

Mathiesen gave the Aggies an insurance run in the seventh, with a no-doubt homer over the wall in left field.

Sunday's win came on the heels of Cameron's doubleheader split with Southeastern on Saturday. The Aggies belted 21 hits and racked up 21 runs in a 21-3 pounding of the Savage Storm in the first game of the series, but managed just three hits in a 6-2 extra-inning loss in the nightcap.

Cameron will hit the road Wednesday to face Southwestern Oklahoma before returning home to host Central Oklahoma in a regular-season finale to decide the LSC North title. The Aggies will take on the Bronchos in a Saturday doubleheader scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., followed by a single nine-inning contest Sunday at 1.