West Texas A&M claimed its third straight Lone Star Conference softball title last week. The Lady Buffs became only the third team in LSC history to win three consecutive titles. WT has earned the right to host the single-elimination championship April 29-30. Brittany Cruz of West Texas A&M was named hitter of the week after hitting .857 with six hits in seven at-bats, including three home runs and 12 RBIs against Eastern New Mexico. Haley Freyman of Tarleton State was named pitcher of the week after throwing three complete game wins against #22 Cameron with 17 strikeouts and just two walks. The weekly release also provides individual stats and accomplishments, league standings,

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LSC SOFTBALL
West Texas A&M claimed its third straight Lone Star Conference title last week. The Lady Buffs became the
third team in LSC history to win three straight titles along with Southeastern Oklahoma (1999-01) and Angelo
State (2008-10). WT has earned the right to host the single-elimination championship April 29-30.
LSC teams are playing a single round-robin schedule with a four games against each league opponent. The
four-game series shall consist of a doubleheader Friday and a doubleheader Saturday.
The overall LSC Champion will be the team(s) with the best winning percentage in regular-season conference
games, while the winner of the postseason championship will be recognized as LSC Tournament Champion and
receive the league’s automatic qualification into NCAA postseason. The single-elimination championship will
be played April 29-30, at the No. 1 seed.
LSC softball teams are 240-172 overall this season. In the NCAA South Central Region, the group is
currently 56-33 combined versus Heartland Conference teams and 30-13 against the Rocky Mountain Athletic
Conference.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
HITTER
Brittany Cruz, West Texas A&M University, FR, Outfielder, New Braunfels, Texas, New Braunfels HS
Cruz had a monster weekend for the LSC Champion Lady Buffs as the freshman outfielder hit a staggering .857
with six hits in seven at-bats with a double, triple and three home runs to drive in 12 RBI. The New Braunfels,
Texas native registered 18 total bases on the weekend with three walks and no strikeouts for an on-base clip of
.818 and an amazing slugging percentage of 2.571. Cruz started Senior Weekend with a bang on Friday night as
she launched a go-ahead grand slam deep to left center and never looked back with at least two RBI in all four
games against Eastern New Mexico this past weekend with a home run in three of the four contests.
PITCHER
Haley Freyman, Tarleton State University, SO, RHP, N. Richland Hills, Texas, Richland HS
Freyman continued to dominate the Lone Star Conference from the pitching circle as the sophomore right-
hander made three starts against No. 22 Cameron and delivered a complete-game win in all three games for
a 3-0 record on the weekend, which gave her 20 victories for the second straight season. Freyman threw 19.0
total innings in her three wins over Cameron and struck out 17 batters while walking just two – which is an
8.50:1 strikeout to walk ratio.
OTHER TOP PERFORMERS
Lanie Robinson, Angelo State University, led ASU with a .667 batting average in a doubleheader sweep of
Texas A&M International. The senior scored three runs in the two games and provided the game winning RBI in
game two with a sacrifice fly. She recorded one double and four hits at the plate in Laredo.
Rachael Longoria, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, batted .524 at the dish this week, tallying 2 home runs
and eight RBI. Longoria had a slugging percentage of .905 and recorded her first career grand slam against Texas
Woman’s University.
Morgan Green, Eastern New Mexico University, batted .500 and drove in a team-high four runs against
second-ranked West Texas A&M. She hit safely in three of the four games, with a pair of multiple-hit games.
Her first inning home run on Friday staked ENMU to its first lead over WT since 2013. Green also played perfect
defense at third base with 14 opportunities.
Melody Mayse, Tarleton State University, stepped up in a big way for the TexAnns as the senior led Tarleton
in total bases (12), RBIs (4), hits (6), and runs scored (4) in a four-game series win over No. 22 Cameron in
Stephenville. Mayse hit .462 in 13 at bats with a .923 slugging percentage. Mayse had the big blast of Tarleton’s
five-run sixth inning to lead Tarleton to a 6-1 win in the series opener. For the weekend, four of Mayse’s six hits
went for extra bases as the senior outfielder from Grandview had two doubles and two triples. She also had
back-to-back multi-hit games in the series finale doubleheader to give her a team-leading 18 multi-hit games
this season. She also led the team with two stolen bases and a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in center field.
Katy Stephens, Texas Woman’s University, led the team with six RBI and a .688 slugging percentage and
helped the Pioneers to 4-2 record. She posted a .500 batting average, .833 slugging percentage and .600 on
base percentage in the four LSC games. Stephens scored or drove in the game-winning run in three of the four
wins. For the week she posted a .438 batting average, five runs, .550 on base percentage and was perfect 1.000
on defense at first base. With TWU trailing by six runs in the sixth inning in game-four against TAMUK, Stephens
started the Pioneers’ 7-run rally with a lead-off hit-by-pitch and later drove in the game-winner with a single in
the same inning for the series win. She also drove in three runs in a 6-5 loss to the Javelinas on Friday.
Luci Ponce, Texas A&M University - Commerce, led the Lions to a 4-2 record on the week after a sweep of
Oklahoma Baptist midweek and a 2-2 LSC series spilt on the road at Midwestern State. Ponce opened the week
going 2-for-3 with an RBI in the Lions 11-1 win over OBU. She capped off the weekend going a combined 3-for-6
with nine RBI and three homers in the final two games at Midwestern State. She smacked a grand slam lifting
the Lions out to a 9-6 win in game one before knocking two homers in a 13-3 rout in the series finale.
Tori Bayer, West Texas A&M University, continued to roll for the No. 2 Lady Buffs this past weekend as the
senior right hander went 1-0 in the circle with a 0.00 ERA to go along with her league leading eighth save of
the season. She tossed 6.1 innings of scoreless softball this past weekend as the Lady Buffs claimed their third
straight LSC Title. The Floresville native put her named in the LSC Record Books on Friday night with her eighth
STANDINGS
School LSC Pct. Overall Strk
West Texas A&M 26-2 0.929 44-2 W8
Texas Woman’s 16-8 0.667 28-16 W2
Cameron 14-10 0.583 29-16 L2
Angelo State 13-11 0.542 27-16 W2
Texas A&M-Commerce 15-13 0.536 33-15 W2
Midwestern State 10-14 0.417 25-23 L2
Tarleton State 8-16 0.333 25-22 W2
Texas A&M-Kingsville 7-17 0.292 18-27 L2
Eastern New Mexico 3-21 0.125 11-35 L5
SCHEDULE
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Eastern New Mexico at Oklahoma Panhandle, 1 p.m.
Eastern New Mexico at Oklahoma Panhandle, 3 p.m.
St. Mary’s at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 4 p.m.
Texas-Permian Basin at Angelo State, 4:30 p.m.
St. Mary’s at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 6 p.m.
Texas-Permian Basin at Angelo State, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
West Texas A&M at Lubbock Christian, 4 p.m.
Friday, April 15, 2016
*Midwestern State at Cameron, 1 p.m.
*Texas Woman’s at Eastern New Mexico, 1 p.m.
*Texas Woman’s at Eastern New Mexico, 3 p.m.
*Midwestern State at Cameron, 3 p.m.
*Angelo State at Texas A&M-Commerce, 4:30 p.m.
*Tarleton State at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 5 p.m.
*Angelo State at Texas A&M-Commerce, 6:30 p.m.
*Tarleton State at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 16, 2016
*Midwestern State at Cameron, 12 p.m.
*Texas Woman’s at Eastern New Mexico, 1 p.m.
*Angelo State at Texas A&M-Commerce, 1:30 p.m.
*Midwestern State at Cameron, 2 p.m.
*Tarleton State at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 2 p.m.
*Texas Woman’s at Eastern New Mexico, 3 p.m.
*Angelo State at Texas A&M-Commerce, 3:30 p.m.
*Tarleton State at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 4 p.m.
All times are CST; *denotes LSC game
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS
Complete results at lonestarconference.org.
WEEKLY AWARDS
Date Hitter
F-9 Katelyn Vinson, Midwestern State
F-16 Brittany Cruz, West Texas A&M
F-23 Chelsea DeLong, Cameron
M-1 Shayne Starkey, West Texas A&M
M-8 Kenedy Urbany, Angelo State
M-14 Luci Ponce, Texas A&M-Commerce
M-21 Tealey Farquhar, Texas Woman’s
M-28 Lauren Oatman, Texas A&M-Kingsville
A-5 Kenedy Urbany, Angelo State (2)
A-12 Brittany Cruz, West Texas A&M (2)
Date Pitcher
F-9 Haley Freyman, Tarleton State
F-16 Tori Bice, Texas Woman’s
F-23 Chelsea Skipper, West Texas A&M
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save of the season to tie the single-season league
record and followed that up with a three-hit shutout
in Saturday afternoon’s Senior Weekend finale to give
the Lady Buffs the series sweep over Eastern New
Mexico.
Brandy Marlett, Angelo State University, help
Angelo State sweep Texas A&M International in a
doubleheader by pitching her second career no-
hitter. The sophomore no-hit the Dustdevils in game
one for the program’s ninth no-hitter. She did not
allow a ground ball the entire game as ASU won 9-0.
In game two, she came in relief to pitch 5.2 innings to
win game two. She struck out nine total batters and
held TAMUI to just a .079 batting average and three
hits in two games.
Katie Dean, Texas A&M University - Commerce,
the reigning LSC Pitcher of the Week again showed
her prowess on the mound while leading the Lions
to a 4-2 week. Dean recorded three of the four wins
for the Lions during the seven-day span. She started
the week with a complete game win over Oklahoma
Baptist. Dean struck out four while allowing just four
hits and one run, none earned, in the Lions’ 11-1
win. She followed the up with a one-inning relief
appearance in game two of the doubleheader and
picked up her second win of the series after allowing
just one hit and recording a strikeout as the Lions
came back from a 6-3 deficit to pick up the 7-6 win.
Her third win of the weekend came on the week after
tossing a hitless two and two thirds of an inning at
Midwestern State. Her scoreless efforts allowed the
Lions to recover and pick up the 9-6 road win.
Karri Smith, Texas A&M University - Kingsville,
tossed two complete games this week, tying the
Javelinas all-time complete game mark at 28 games.
The senior pitched a total of 12 innings and had a
team high of four strikeouts. The Alvin, Texas native
also had two hits, with both of them registering as
doubles.
NOTES (Submitted by LSC SID’s)
Angelo State
2-0 last week.
Cameron
1-3 last week.
Eastern New Mexico
Last weekend, the Eastern New Mexico softball team
visited second-ranked West Texas A&M. In the second
and third games of the series, the Greyhounds took
their first leads over the Lady Buffs since the 2013
season. In the second game, Morgan Green’s first-
inning home run staked ENMU to a 3-0 lead. On
Saturday, Susannah Chandler and Green had back-
to-back two-out hits to give the Hounds an early
2-0 advantage. Although WT swept the series, both
Green and Chandler managed to bat .500 over
the four contests. For the series, the Greyhounds
batted .429 with runners in scoring position and had
seven two-out runs batted in. This week, Eastern
will visit Oklahoma Panhandle for a non-conference
doubleheader, before closing out the home schedule
against Texas Woman’s.
Midwestern State
2-2 last week.
Tarleton State
Tarleton defeated No. 22 Cameron in three out of
four games in Stephenville last weekend. The TexAnns
will make a trip to Kingsville next weekend for the
final road series of the regular season.
M-1 Brandy Marlett, Angelo State
M-8 Tori Bice, Texas Woman’s (2)
M-14 Tori Bayer, West Texas A&M
M-21 Tori Bayer, West Texas A&M (2)
M-28 Kilee Halbert, West Texas A&M
A-5 Katie Dean, Texas A&M-Commerce
A-12 Haley Freyman, Tarleton State (2)
S O F T B A L L
LSC SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
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Texas A&M-Commerce
A&M-Commerce had two grand slams during the
week. Johnna Sturm provided the first with the Lions
trailing 6-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning to
Oklahoma Baptist. Her bomb lifted the Lions to a 7-6
walk-off win. The second came off the bat of Luci
Ponce in a 9-6 road win over Midwestern State. The
Lions are staring down the LSC’s single-season team
stole base record. A&M-Commerce leads the lead in
stolen bases and is second in the NCAA in the same
category. Their 161 stolen bases is 19 shy of tying
the record and 20 shy of breaking the record with six
games remaining on the schedule.
Texas A&M-Kingsville
Texas A&M University-Kingsville went 3-3 with this
week. Kingsville swept Huston-Tilloston in a two-
game midweek matchup and salvaged one win in
the LSC four-game series against Texas Woman’s. The
Javelinas will have their final non-conference two-
game series against St. Mary’s on Tuesday, April 12
before taking on Tarleton State April 15-16 for their
last home four-game series in the 2016 season.
Texas Woman’s
TWU is 28-16 on the season and 16-8 in the Lone
Star Conference after posting a 4-2 record last week.
The Pioneers split the non-conference doubleheader
against Oklahoma Christian on Tuesday and then
captureda3-1serieswinagainstTexasA&M-Kingsville
over the weekend to pick up program’s 600th win.
TWU used one of the biggest comebacks to capture a
13-12 win and the series win in game-four against the
Javelinas. The Pioneers entered the bottom of the
sixth inning with a 12-6 deficit but by the end of the
inning they had a 13-12 lead. Junior Logan Polasek
led the team with a .588 batting average for the week
including a .714 average in the four games against
TAMUK. Senior Tealey Farquhar had a team-best
seven runs while junior Katy Stephens was the leader
with six RBI and a .688 slugging percentage. Stephens
scored or drove in the game-winning run in three of
the four wins.
West Texas A&M
The #2 Lady Buffs claimed their third straight Lone
Star Conference title this past weekend as they
outscored the rival Greyhounds of Eastern New
Mexico, 40-8 in a Senior Weekend series sweep at
Schaeffer Park to move WT to 44-2 (26-2 LSC). The
Lady Buffs became the third team in LSC history to
win three straight titles along with Southeastern
Oklahoma (1999-01) and Angelo State (2008-10).
WT hit .386 as a team in the four games with nine
doubles, two triples and 10 homeruns to drive in
39 RBI for a team slugging percentage of .875 while
walking 22 times for an on-base clip of .509. The Lady
Buffs were perfect on defense this past weekend
with 66 putouts and 27 assists with no errors for a
fielding clip of 1.000. The Lady Buffs will now take a
break from Lone Star Conference play as they make
the short trip down Interstate 27 for a midweek
matchup with the Lady Chaps of Lubbock Christian on
Wednesday night at 4 p.m. at Plains Capital Field in
Lubbock. WT has earned the right to host the Lone
Star Conference Championship on April 29-30, they
will be the top seed in the event and receive a bye in
the quarterfinal round and play the winner of the 4/5
seed game in the semifinals on Friday night at a time
to be determined.