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KINGSVILLE, Texas – An 8-4 win in 10 innings in the first game and a 3-0 shutout victory in the nightcap gave the No. 13 Southern Arkansas baseball team a doubleheader sweep over No. 4-ranked Texas A&M-Kingsville on Saturday at Nolan Ryan Filed in Kingsville.
 
In the opener, the Muleriders (5-1) scored first as they plated a pair of runs in the top of the second inning. A RBI double by Chase Harvey and a sacrifice fly Tyler Cameron accounted for the two Mulerider runs in the frame. An inning later, the Muleriders pushed across two more runs to take a 4-0 lead through the first two and a half innings of play.
 
In the bottom of that frame, the Javelinas (2-2) would get on the board for one run on a single to centerfield by Derrick Walls, making it a 4-1 game in favor of the Muleriders.
 
Three innings later, with the score still 4-1, the Javelinas finally got to SAU starting pitcher Dylan Lynn as they loaded the bases with no outs. Lynn would surrender a run in the next at-bat as Travis Laird found a hole through the left side of the infield to score Ryan Guedry, who walked to lead off the inning.
 
That RBI knock for Laird kept the bases loaded with no outs and brought the Javelinas to within two runs, 4-2. It also spelled the end of the day for Lynn as he was relieved by Blake Sullivan. The first man Sullivan (1-0) faced would draw a walk to score the Javelinas' third run. Three batters later, the Javelinas would knot the game at four-all on another bases loaded walk before Sullivan was able to induce a popup to second base to end the bottom of the sixth.
 
Neither team would score over the next three innings to force the game into extra innings.
 
In the top of the 10th, the Muleriders' offense would spark itself for four runs on four hits to take an 8-4 lead. Driving in runs for the Muleriders in that inning were Harvey (single), Jon Phillips (double), and Jackson McCurdy (single). Cameron accounted for the fourth run as he scored on an errant throw by the Javelinas' centerfielder on Phillips' RBI double.
 
Now staked to a four-run lead, Sullivan, who worked the previous three innings allowing only two hits, came back out to the mound looking to pick up the final three outs. There would be no drama in the bottom of the 10th as Sullivan worked a perfect frame to secure the win for the Muleriders.
 
In the nightcap, the Muleriders would get outstanding pitching performances from their starter Timothy Buchanan and reliever Preston Gray as the duo combined for 13 strikeouts en route to shutting out the Javelinas, 3-0.
 
Buchanan (2-0) would work the first seven innings in dominant fashion as he struck out 12 batters and scattered four hits while walking two. Gray would come on in relief of Buchanan to start the eighth inning and Gray would continue to hold the Javelinas' offense at bay as he picked up his second save of the season after working the next two innings scoreless while allowing just one hit.
 
The run support for Buchanan and Gray would come in the fifth and sixth innings as the Muleriders plated one run in the fifth and two in the sixth. The run in the fifth came on a two-out RBI single by Phillips that scored Harvey. In the sixth, twin brother and battery-mate of T. Buchanan, Justin Buchanan, singled to right field to score Telvin Darden. A batter later, Harvey picked up an RBI on a bunt base hit that scored Trevor Rucker.
 
The Muleriders will now go for the sweep of the Javelinas on Sunday as they play the third and final game of the series starting at noon.