Cougars Drop Road Midweek to Lamar

Tuesday, March 24

Beaumont, Texas

5:30 PM

University of Houston

17-18

Lamar

18-15

Houston

Lamar

3/24/2026 11:26:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

Three Cougars produce multi-hit outings; Cardinals rally on eight-run first to win via run-rule walk off

BEAUMONT, Texas – The University of Houston Softball team fell in midweek action, 13-5, against Lamar at the LU Softball Complex on Sunday.

The Cougars (17-18, 1-8 Big 12) fell behind early following an eight-run first inning from the Cardinals (17-15, 5-4 Southland). Despite a four-run fourth inning to cut the deficit to 9-4, Lamar fended off Houston's late comeback effort, supplying four runs in the fifth and sixth frames to win via run rule and level the season series at one game apiece.

PLAYER HIGHLIGHTS

Maddie Hartley: 2-3, R, 2 2B
RyLee Gardner: 2-3, R
Isabel Cintron: 2-3, R

NOTABLES

Sophomore Maddie Hartley recorded her 12^th multi-hit performance of the season with two doubles on the day, marking her 18^th career multi-hit game.
Hartley's pair of doubles now total to 10 this season, marking her second multi-double game since opening day against HCU (Feb. 5).
Freshman RyLee Gardner notched her sixth career multi-hit game on the day, now having multi-hit outings in back-to-back games (March 22 vs Iowa State).
Sophomore Isabel Cintron produced multiple hits in a game for a second time this season with two singles on the day.
Senior Mandy Esman's lone hit on the day now extends her hitting streak to five games, totaling seven hits in that stretch.
Freshman Leilani Garcia recorded her second triple of the year, doing so for the first since her first career hit on opening day against HCU (Feb. 5).

KEY INNINGS
4^th | Trailing 9-0 entering the fourth, Houston produced its first score of the game off a wild pitch, opening the door for Hartley to score as junior Makenna Mitchell earned the walk to first. With the bases loaded, a second wild pitch scored Mitchell from third while advancing all runners cut the deficit to 9-2. Cintron tacked on two more runs, providing a two-RBI single up the middle to score Gardner and Esman, cutting Lamar's lead down to 9-4.

UP NEXT
Houston returns home to host its fourth Big 12 weekend series of the season, taking on UCF on March 27-29 with game one set for 6 p.m., Friday. All games will be streamed on ESPN+.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Smith, Reagan (8-2)

L: Lehman, Paris (2-3)

Houston

Batting:

2B: Hartley, Maddie 2

3B: Garcia, Leilani 1

RBI: Cintron, Isabel 2 ; Garcia, Leilani 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Esman, Mandy 1 ; Wilkins, Jordee 1 ; Cintron, Isabel 1 ; Mitchell, Makenna 1 ; Gardner, RyLee 1

CS: Mitchael, Madox 1

Lamar

Batting:

2B: Flores, Isabella 1 ; Hess, Gracee 1

3B: Thompson, Roxy 1

RBI: Flores, Isabella 3 ; Thompson, Roxy 3 ; Hess, Gracee 4 ; Windham, Sicily 1 ; Wright, Makenzie 1

SH: Radford, Kamaryn 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Wessling, Cimara-lei 1 ; McGuire, Kinlee 1 ; Flores, Isabella 1 ; Flores, Ariel 1 ; Whitley, Riley 1 ; Thompson, Roxy 2 ; Hess, Gracee 3 ; Windham, Sicily 3