DENTON, Texas – The top ranked Lady Buffs of West Texas A&M overcame an early deficit in the first game and withstood a late comeback in the nightcap as they took the first two games from the Pioneers of Texas Woman's during the final weekend of league play at Pioneer Field in Denton, Texas on Friday night. The Lady Buffs win their 12th straight contest to improve to 48-2 (28-2 LSC) on the season while the Pioneers fall to 31-19 (19-11 LSC) overall. 
 
The Lady Buffs and Pioneers return to action tomorrow afternoon on the final day of Lone Star Conference action with first pitch of TWU's Senior Day set for 2:00 p.m. at Pioneer Field.
 
GAME #1
The Pioneers jumped on the board early in the home half of the first inning with four runs on three hits to go along with two Lady Buff errors for the early 4-0 lead. WT responded in the top of the third inning as Lacey Taylor tied a program single season record in doubles (Alyssa Lemos, 2013) with her 21st of the season to drive in Shea Ibrahim follows two batters later by an Allie Smith RBI double down the left field line to cut the lead to 4-2.
 
TWU answered in the bottom of the third inning with an Amanda Gray RBI single in the infield to run the lead to 5-2. The Lady Buffs responded again in the top of the fourth inning as Ibrahim singled to right center to drive in Shayne Starkey followed by an Ashley Hardin RBI walk with the bases loaded to make it 5-4. WT would tie the game in the top of the fifth inning as Brittany Cruz lifted a sac fly to center field to score Kourtney Coveney at 5-5.
 
TWU took another lead in the bottom of the fifth as they took advantage of another WT error for the 6-5 lead. The Lady Buffs tied it again in the top of the sixth as Hardin led off the frame with a line drive triple off of the left center field fence followed by an Andrea Sitter sac fly to left to run the score to 6-6. WT would  put the game out of reach in the top of the eighth inning as Coveney and Brittany Gehle walked with the bases loaded followed by a Sitter RBI single to give WT the 9-6 lead.
 
That proved to be more than enough as Kilee Halbert stranded a runner at first to cap off her longest outing of her young career to pick up the win (21-1) for the Lady Buffs, giving up six runs (four earned) on seven hits with one walk and six strikeouts in her 15th complete game of the season. 
 
GAME #2
The Lady Buffs wasted no time taking a lead in the top of the first inning as Hardin doubled to the left center field gap with the bases loaded to drive in a pair of runs followed by a Smith sac fly to left field and a Coveney double to left field to give WT the 4-0 lead. The Pioneers answered in the home half of the frame as they capitalized on a WT fielding error followed by a Katy Stephens squeeze bunt to make it 4-2.
 
Taylor continued her hot day at the plate in the top of the fourth inning as the senior singled up the middle with two outs to score Sitter from third to run the lead to 5-2. TWU got on the board in the home half of the fourth as they loaded the bases with no out before Alexis Alfonso forced a 1-2-3 double play back to the circle before Alexis Elizondo snuck a ground ball thru the left side to score a pair to knock Fonz from the game, Tori Bayer entered and registered a four pitch walk and a pair of hit-batter to give TWU the 6-5 lead headed into the fifth.
 
The Lady Buffs swing the momentum in the top of the sixth inning as they scored on a passed ball and an error to give WT the 7-6 lead before Brittany Cruz sat on a hanging change up and drove the ball deep to left field for a three run bomb to run the WT lead to 10-6. The Pioneers answered with an RBI double to right field with no outs followed by two more base runners before Bayer settled in and forced a fly ball to right and a pair of strikeouts to end the threat at 10-7. 
 
WT added to their lead in the seventh as Hardin doubled off of the left center field wall to score Briana Garza with no outs followed by a Smith RBI single thru the left side to make it 12-7, Coveney was hit by a pitch to load the bases followed by a solo pitch to plate another run and a walk to load the bases before two outs ended the game, 13-7. Bayer picked up the win (13-0) for the Lady Buffs, giving up one run on two hits with five walks and four strikeouts in her 3.1 innings of relief.