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PENSACOLA, Fla. – Following a close 4-3 win over West Florida in their first game of the day on Monday, the Southern Arkansas softball team re-wrote several Great American Conference and school records as they out-slugged Midwestern State for a 22-17 win in 10 innings.
 
Among the team GAC records set by the Lady Muleriders (4-2) in their game against Midwestern State, SAU is now the record-holder for most RBIs in a game (22), most hits in a game (23), most total bases in a game (42), and most at-bats in a game (52). Individually, the Lady Muleriders also had three players stake claim to a GAC single-game record for at-bats as Maddie Dow, Chelsea Ivy, and Shelby Miller each registered seven at-bats. Dow also tied a single-game GAC record and set a SAU record with seven RBIs.
 
In terms of game action, the record-setting slugfest between the Lady Muleriders and the Mustangs (3-2) started in the game's first at-bat as Brooke Goad belted a solo homerun out to right-centerfield. Two more runs would come across for the Lady Muleriders in that first inning as a double by Sarah Higginbotham plated Dow and a sacrifice fly by Audrey Farfan scored Miller.
 
The Mustangs would score a run of their own in the bottom of the frame to make it a 3-1 game through one.
 
In the second inning, Goad gave the Lady Muleriders a three-run lead, 4-1, as she doubled down the right field line, scoring Kim Whelehon. That lead would not last long, however, as the Mustangs' Katlyn Holmes launched a three-run homerun. Two more homeruns by the Mustangs followed in the next couple of innings as Midwestern was suddenly up by three runs themselves, 7-4.
 
As was the case for the Lady Muleriders, that three-run lead by Mustangs was not safe for long as in the top of the fifth inning, Chelsea Ivy sent a pitch over the left field wall for a go-ahead grand slam. In the bottom of the frame, however, the Mustangs got a bases loaded walk to knot the game at eight-all.
 
Neither team would score in the sixth inning, but both would post four-spots in the seventh inning to keep the game tied and force extra innings.
 
In the eighth inning, the Lady Muleriders added four more runs to take a 16-12 lead, but once again, the Mustangs matched SAU with a four-run eighth of their own to push the game to a ninth inning.
 
A scoreless ninth for both teams would give way to another offensively impressive inning for the Lady Muleriders in the top of the 10th. In that inning, the Lady Muleriders would score six runs as they got a bases-clearing double by Dow, a RBI double by Higginbotham, and a two-run blast from Farfan to take a 22-16 lead.
 
Now leading by six runs and the international tie-breaker rule in full effect, the Lady Muleriders would still not find it completely easy to record the final three outs of the game, but Miller, who started the game in the circle and came back in relief in the ninth, gave up a run before getting a couple of harmless popups and a flyout to end the marathon slugfest.
 
The Lady Muleriders will now prepare for a doubleheader against NCAA Division I, Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Sunday, February 8. First-pitch is set for noon in Pine Bluff.