ROCKWALL, Texas – After dropping the first game of Saturday's action 6-3, the Southern Arkansas Lady Mulerider softball team trailed 8-0 through three innings of game two, but scored seven runs in the fourth inning on their way to 14 unanswered runs to take game two and earn the GAC series win over Northwestern Oklahoma on Saturday at Campbell Complex in Rockwall, Texas.
 
In the opener, SAU starter Chancy Williams worked two hitless innings to start the contest, but NWOSU plated two runs in the third inning to take a 2-0 lead.
 
Rockwall, Texas native Audrey Farfan answered the Rangers in the bottom half of the frame with a three-run homerun that gave the Lady Muleriders their only lead in game one.
 
An RBI single in the fourth inning by the Rangers ended Williams' outing and NWOSU would add the go-ahead run two batters later.
 
Northwestern Oklahoma would score a run in the 6^th and the 7^th innings to increase their lead to 6-3 and eventually earn their first conference win of the year.
 
The Rangers would carry their game one momentum into the second contest of the afternoon as they scored four runs in the first inning, a single run in the second and three more runs in the third inning to take an 8-0 lead into the fourth.
 
Miranda Cuff lasted only two-thirds of an inning to start the game, but would come back into the circle in the fourth inning to pick up the unconventional win.
 
Risking becoming victims of a run-rule affair, the Lady Mulerider bats caught fire in the home-half of the fourth inning. With two outs and runners at second and third, Chelsea Ivy produced an infield single that scored the first run of an eventual seven-run fourth inning. A fielder's choice from Courtney Hudgins scored another run as SAU began to cut down the Ranger lead.
 
Later in the inning, a Darian Harris two-run double cut the Lady Mulerider deficit to four, 8-4. Harris would score on a fielding error that put Maddie Dow on second base, before Ashton Atwell proceeded to leave the yard, along with the Ranger momentum as the Rockwall native's two-run homerun brought SAU within a run, 8-7.
 
Cuff shutdown NWOSU in her second stint in the circle as she worked around a two-out single in the fifth to send the Lady Muleriders back to the plate and looking to take the lead.
 
Ivy wasted no time in tying the game at eight as the senior blasted a solo homerun to left field on a 1-0 count. Farfan continued to make it a memorable homecoming as the senior laced a one out single to centerfield that plated two Lady Muleriders and completed the comeback.
 
A pair of two-run homeruns from Hudgins and Dow padded the SAU lead in the sixth inning, before Cuff made quick work of NWOSU in the seventh to earn the win and give SAU the series win in their first conference series of the year.
 
Cuff improved to 4-1 in five total innings of work that included four strikeouts in her second appearance of the game.
 
Offensively, every Lady Mulerider collected a hit in the second game led by three from Harris and Atwell. Five Lady Muleriders drove in a pair of runs each in the series clinching victory, while Harris scored a game-high three runs.
 
Weather permitting, Southern Arkansas will get their long-awaited home opener as they are scheduled to host Ouachita Baptist in a pair of doubleheader matchups beginning Friday at 2 p.m. and concluding with a noon first pitch on Saturday.