TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL (23-30, 17-10) AT LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (29-14, 16-11)
Friday, April 27 – 2 & 4 p.m. (DH)
Saturday, April 28 – 12 p.m.
PlainsCapital Park (Lubbock, Texas)
All-Time Series: LCU leads 12-3
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LUBBOCK, Texas (April 27, 2018) – The Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals host Texas A&M International for a three game series to wrap up the regular season. Friday's doubleheader is set to begin at 2 p.m. and Saturday's Senior Day game will start at noon with the ceremony to honor the seniors to follow at the conclusion of the game.
 
LCU LEADERS
The Lady Chaps enter the contest with an overall record of 29-14, sitting in fourth place in the Heartland Conference. They sit 1.5 games out of first place in the conference. LCU is 20-2 this season at home at PlainsCapital Park. The Lady Chaps lead the Heartland Conference hitting .290 as a team, led by K'leigh Arredondo (.389). Lindzi Clemmer leads the team in hits (52), triples (3), total bases (104) and runs batted in (50), while sitting second in home runs with 12. Morgan Dufour leads the team and the Heartland Conference in home runs with 15, which sits her tenth in the nation. Dufour also leads the conference and the Lady Chaps in slugging percentage (.796). Courtney Medina leads the Lady Chaps and the Heartland Conference in stolen bases with 26 total. In the circle, Monique Francois leads the conference as well as LCU with 21 victories (8^th in the nation). Francois also leads the Heartland and Lady Chaps shutouts (6, 20^th most in the nation) and strikeouts (129), while boasting a 1.92 earned run average. She also holds the most innings pitched (156.2) with opponents only hitting .210 against her. The Lady Chaps continue play at home after sweeping a Monday doubleheader against Eastern New Mexico.
 
ABOUT TAMIU
The Dustdevils are 6-15 away from Laredo this year. TAMIU is sitting third in the conference standings, one game (1.0) out of first. The Dustdevils are hitting .255 as a team, led by Maya Paul who is hitting .336 with 48 hits. Maddison Shofield leads the team in runs batted in (30) and total bases (70). Brandi Giles leads the Dustdevils with six home runs. In the circle, A&M International is led by Delainy Thompson and Melanie Lint, each with a 2.86 earned run average. Thompson has a 10-13 record while Lint is 11-8. Thompson also leads the Dustdevils with 71 strikeouts and 134.2 innings pitched. TAMIU comes to the Hub City after sweeping a doubleheader this past Sunday against No. 11 West Texas A&M.

THE SERIES vs. TAMIU
The Lady Chaps are 11-2 all-time against the Dustdevils, splitting the doubleheader in Laredo earlier this season.

PREVIOUS MEETING
LAREDO, Texas (March 27, 2018) – The Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals shutout Texas A&M International 6-0 in the opening game of a doubleheader before being no-hit and falling 1-0 in the second game for a split Tuesday at Dustdevil Softball Field in Laredo.
 
In game one, the Lady Chaps (20-10, 9-7) scored three runs in the first inning with a single by Lindzi Clemmer before Sydney Beuthien was hit by a pitch leading up to a Morgan Dufour bomb over the left field fence to score all three. In the fourth inning, pinch hitter Haley Hardison drove a ball up the middle to score K'leigh Aredondo and Averi Miller. Clemmer scored from third base on a wild pitch in the top of the seventh inning for an insurance run.
 
Monique Francois (14-3) started in the circle for the Lady Chaps, throwing a complete game shutout and allowing three hits. The shutout was her fifth shutout of the season and her 14^th victory. Melanie Lint (6-8) got the start for TAMIU throwing the first 6.2 innings giving up six runs on nine hits to suffer her eighth loss of the year.
 
In game two, Texas A&M International (14-25, 11-10) held the Lady Chaps hitless for only the second time in the history of the program and the second time this season. Maddison Schofield scored in the sixth inning off the bat of Sara Caterson for the lone run of the game. Caterson's decisive hit came with two outs on a hit down the left field line that hit right on the line.
 
Amber Carlton (4-3) started in the circle in game two for Lubbock Christian, throwing five innings and allowing one run on five hits to suffer her third loss of the year. Monique Francois came in to relieve Carlton with two runners on and no outs in the sixth inning. The one hit she allowed was to Caterson. Delainy Thompson (6-10) registered the no-hitter for the Dustdevils, throwing all seven innings to earn her sixth victory. She faced one batter over the minimum. The no-hitter was her first and the first in TAMIU program history.  LCU's only other prior time suffering a no-hitter was Feb. 17 in Tucson, Ariz. against No.9 Dixie State.