AUSTIN, Texas – The Lamar University softball program fell in both contests on day one of the Lone Star State Invitational against No. 7/7 Texas and Sam Houston on Friday, February 26^th in Austin, Texas.
 
Game 1 – No. 7/7 Texas 10, Lamar 0 (5 Inn.)
 
The Cardinals fell down early to the hot bats of the Longhorns and could not get anything going offensively. Senior Hannah Carpenter recorded the lone hit of the contest for Lamar. Texas got off to a hot start in the first inning on a three-run home run from Iakopo that sailed over the left field wall.
 
Freshman Janelle Marwitz recorded her first appearance in a Big Red uniform and tossed 2.0 innings and only gave up one run that went unearned on her record. Freshman Hannah Williams finished out the contest and gave up four runs in her 1.0 innings pitched.
 
Game 2 – Sam Houston 12, Lamar 6
 
The Bearkats opened up the scoring early in the first, but the Cardinals were able to respond in the bottom half of the frame as junior Aleka Xayaseng was able to score after a fielding error by the Sam Houston first baseman allowed sophomore Nicolette Ramirez to reach first, which would load the bases for the Cardinals. The next two batters for the Cards went onto walk and that brought in two runs to bring the score to 3-2 in favor of Lamar heading into the second.
 
The Bearkats evened things up in the top of the second. The scoring went into a halt until the bottom of the third when the Cardinals would retake the lead, 4-3, over the Bearkats on a Audry Fleming single that brought home Hannah Carpenter.
 
Sam Houston retook the lead in the fourth on a fielding error by the Cardinal left fielde and went onto hold the 5-4 lead until the sixth where the Bearkat bats exploded for six runs on four hits to extend the led to 11-4 over the Cards. Sam Houston added an insurance run in the seventh, and the Cardinals tallied two runs in the bottom of the final frame, but it was not enough as Sam Houston came out with a 12-6 win over Lamar in Austin.