Angelo State and Tarleton State are tied atop the Lone Star Conference standings with identical 10-2 league records. Texas Woman’s is just behind them at 9-2 after four weeks of LSC play.
In league action last week, West Texas A&M took two of three games from ASU, Tarleton went 2-1 versus Cameron, TWU swept Eastern New Mexico, Abilene Christian won the series against Texas A&M-Kingsville and Midwestern State won two opposed to Incarnate Word.
LSC teams are playing a single round-robin schedule with a three-game series against every other team. Each series consists of a doubleheader one day and single 7-inning game the other day.
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 the NCAA postseason. The single-elimination championship will be played April 27-28 in Denton, Texas.
LSC softball teams are 183-130 overall this season. In the NCAA South Central Region, the LSC is currently 88-53 overall including 48-24 combined versus Heartland Conference teams, 17-9 opposed to the Great American Conference, 20-14 against the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) and 3-6 versus independent teams.
FIRST PITCH
#LONGBALLXTHREE - Tarleton State’s Arianna Rodriguez became the second TexAnn ever to have a three-home run game, doing so in the series finale Sunday afternoon against Cameron. The junior shortstop joined Brittnee Rice (2009) in the Tarleton record books and became the seventh player in LSC history to go yard three times in a single contest.
#TOUCHEMALL - West Texas A&M senior Kim LeComte became the LSC career leader in runs scored topping the previous mark of 206 set in 2003.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
HITTER
Kendra Sancet, Texas Woman’s University, FR, 1B, Magnolia, Texas, Magnolia HS
Sancet led the team with .500 batting average, .944 slugging percentage, 11 RBI and nine hits and helped the Pioneers to five wins. She drove in at least two runs in four of the five games last week. Sancet hit two home runs and drove in six runs in the three-game series at Eastern New Mexico. On the season she leads the Pioneers with 41 RBI and third in batting average with .374.
PITCHER
Marci Womack, West Texas A&M University, SR, Pitcher, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Sulphur Springs HS
Womack went 2-1 on the week as the #23 Lady Buffs went 3-2 including taking two of three games from #1 Angelo State in Canyon. Womack went 2-0 against the Rambelles with two complete game wins including a shutout in game one on Friday night. The senior right hander registered nine strikeouts on the week in 16 innings pitched.