LCU sweeps St. Mary's for fifth straight victory
Tiarra Delrosario delivered a tiebreaking double and two batters later Kasey Flores cracked a two-run homer, helping No. 11 Lubbock Christian University beat St. Mary's 7-3 Saturday at Maner Park and sweep a Lone Star Conference softball series.
The score was 2-2 when the Lady Chaps came up in the fifth inning. Berkeley Quinn put down a one-out bunt single and came around on Delrosario's double down the left-field line. Flores' two-out drive cleared the center-field wall for a 5-2 lead.
LCU added a pair of insurance runs in the sixth. Kamryn Gibbs, Veronica Owens and Riley Flores started the inning with consecutive base hits, the one by Flores scoring Gibbs. The second run scored on an error.
Riley Flores and Sydnee Bowlin had run-scoring singles in the second that gave the Lady Chaps a 2-0 lead.
LCU (24-8, 14-7) has won five games in a row. The Lady Chaps moved into a tie for third place in the LSC with Oklahoma Christian (19-7, 14-7).
St. Mary's (20-11, 10-8) lost its fourth in a row.
Winning pitcher Maxine Valdez (10-2) went three innings, allowing a run on two hits.
In Friday's second game of a doubleheader, Valdez threw a no-hitter in a run-rule-shortened game as LCU won 11-1 in five innings.
Valdez struck out nine and walked one. Kaylynne Ruiz drew the walk in the third inning, and a sacrifice fly by Erica Gomez gave the Rattlers a 1-0 lead.
LCU moved ahead in the bottom of the inning on an RBI double by Quinn and a Hope Banales sacrifice fly. The Lady Chaps blew it open with a nine-run fourth that included two-run singles by Bowlin and Kasey Flores, RBI singles by Banales and Skylar Herrera and a three-run homer from Gibbs.
WBU baseball
GOODWELL, Okla. — A 16-run third inning and a school-record 11 stolen bases propelled Wayland Baptist to a 20-7 victory Saturday at Oklahoma Panhandle State and a sweep of the three-game Sooner Athletic Conference series.
Arturo Disla reached base three times and drove in five runs, and Cooper Jauz hit a grand slam — all in the third inning.
It marked a season-high seventh consecutive victory for the Pioneers (20-10, 6-3 SAC), who completed their second sweep in three conference series, having won on Friday, 11-5 and 7-3.
Wayland also swept Central Christian on the road last weekend in McPherson, Kansas. Central Christian and OPSU (7-18-1, 2-7) are at the bottom of the SAC standings, and Wayland is fourth among nine conference teams.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Area college roundup: LCU sweeps St. Mary's for fifth straight victory
