ARKADELPHIA, Ark. —
Christianna Camp had two home runs and Henderson State's pitching staff limited Southwestern Oklahoma State to just two runs in two games, as the Reddies swept the first doubleheader from the Lady Bulldogs on Saturday at Dee White Field.
Henderson (26-17, 18-14) and SWOSU (7-32, 7-22) will face off in the second doubleheader tomorrow, with the first pitch set for 11 a.m.
GAME ONE: Henderson State 9, SWOSU 1
Henderson State got a home run in three-straight innings and
Sydney Bonner won her 10th game of the year in the circle, as the Reddies defeated SWOSU 9-1 in the series opener.
SWOSU got on the board in the top of the first, when the Lady Bulldogs used three hits to score a run and go up 1-0. Henderson limited the damage, however, and then responded with a bases-loaded single from
Courtney Warren in the bottom half, which scored two runs and put the Reddies in front 2-1.
The Reddies' bats stayed hot in the second, as
Lindsey Williams singled to start things off. The next batter,
Madie Green, got a ball up into the wind blowing out to left field, and that wind carried it over the fence, to give Green her eighth home run of the year and Henderson a 4-1 lead.
Henderson got its second home run of the day in the third inning, when
Christianna Camp drilled a solo shot out to left center to extend the Reddies' lead to 5-1.
The home run party was not over, though. In the fourth,
Kailey Reese gave the Reddies' their third home run in as many innings, when she hit a screaming line drive, that just stayed fair, over the wall in right field. Reese's two-run blast gave Henderson a 7-1 advantage, but the Reddies were not done in the inning. After
Bethany Allen drew a walk, pinch hitter
Selena Mendoza delivered a line drive base hit on a full count. On the bounce, the SWOSU center fielder misplayed the ball, which allowed Allen to score and push the lead out to 8-1.
In the sixth, it was Allen that wrapped things up for Henderson, as she singled in Reese from second base with her second hit of the day, to put the run-rule into effect and give the Reddies a 9-1 win.
The Reddies racked up nine hits in the win, with both Allen and Reese finishing with two. Green, Reese and Warren all had two RBIs. After allowing three hits in the first inning, Bonner gave up just three more over the next five innings, as she picked up her 10th victory of the season.
GAME TWO: Henderson State 9, SWOSU 1
A seven-run fifth inning helped Henderson blow open what was a close game, and run away for a 9-1 win to sweep SWOSU in Saturday's doubleheader.
Leading 2-1, the Reddies made their presence felt in the fifth. It started when
Nadia Ballarin connected with a ball for her third home run of the season to make it 3-1. After a double steal scored
Lindsey Williams from third base,
Bethany Allen hit a double to drive in
Kailey Reese and
Madie Green and push the Henderson lead out to 6-1.
The next batter,
Christianna Camp, continued her hot streak, as she ripped a single into left field to score Allen and make it 7-1. After an error from the SWOSU third baseman allowed Camp to score and stretch the lead to 8-1, pinch hitter Kaitlyn Fielder put an early end to the contest by hammering a single into center. Felder's single scored Warren and gave HSU its second run-rule victory of the day, 9-1.
Mallory Brewer got her fourth victory of the season in the circle for Henderson by allowing just one run on six hits in five innings of work. Camp and Allen each had two hits and two RBIs to lead the Reddies offensively, while six other players picked up hits in the win.
In the bottom of the second, Henderson got its first run, when Camp broke a scoreless tie by blasting her second home run of the doubleheader over the fence in left center to put the Reddies up 1-0.
After SWOSU tied things up with an RBI single in the fourth, the Lady Bulldogs gifted the lead right back to the Reddies in the bottom half of the inning on an error by their center fielder, which allowed
Brooklynn Jimeson to score and put HSU back in front, 2-1.
The Reddies had just three hits in the game prior to their offensive explosion in the fifth inning.