MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas Mulerider baseball team banged out 14 hits and a dozen runs as five pitchers saw action in the 12-6 win over Henderson State on Wednesday afternoon at Walker Stadium at Goodheart Field in Magnolia, Arkansas.
 
The Muleriders (20-11) found the scoreboard first as senior Chris Quinn laced a single into centerfield that scored Chase Harvey and Billy Germaine to put SAU up 2-0 in the home half of the first after Mulerider starter Hunter Mayo retired the Reddies via three strikeouts in the top half of the inning.
 
Henderson Stare answered in the second inning with two runs to tie the mid-week contest at two. Mayo worked around runners at first and second in the third inning and would be relieved by Kenneth Tabor to start the fourth. HSU would scratch a two-out run off of Tabor in his first inning in relief, but SAU would plate two in the bottom half of the fourth to take a 4-3 lead.
 
With two outs, Germaine singled through the right side scoring Justin Buchanan and William Townsend, who reached base on a leadoff walk and a one-out single respectively.
 
Tabor worked a quick fifth inning, inducing back-to-back groundballs before allowing a two-out single to Tadarious Hawkins. Tabor proceeded to pick off Hawkins to end the fifth and worked a perfect sixth, before SAU plated two more runs in the sixth inning to cushion a 6-3 lead.
 
Byron Reichstein led-off the sixth with an infield single and after a throwing error by the Reddie infield on a fielder's choice by Townsend; SAU quickly had runners at second and third.
 
Harvey scored Reichstein on a groundout and Townsend crossed home on a Jon Phillips single down the left field line, just moments after the junior centerfielder stole third base.
 
Janson Carr relieved Tabor to begin the seventh and HSU scored twice in the inning to cut the deficit to a run, 6-5. The Mulerider offense would answer after the stretch in the seventh as they plated five runs to take an 11-5 lead, highlighted by a two-run single by Reichstein and a two-run double from the bat of Phillips.
 
In the eighth, Jared Fielden worked around a two-out hit-by-pitch and in the bottom half, pinch hitter Trevor Ward scored Quinn on an RBI single. Jared Webb worked the ninth inning for the Muleriders and scattered two hits and a run to preserve the win.
 
Five Muleriders collected two hits apiece and Phillips led all players with three RBIs. Townsend scored three times and Germaine found base four times, courtesy of three walks and a single.
 
Tabor picked up his first collegiate win, by scattering three hits in three innings of work. Southern Arkansas concludes their spring break slate with a Great American Conference series with Harding beginning with a single game on Friday, March 27, at 6 p.m., and concluding the series with a twin bill on Saturday, March 28, that is scheduled to start at 2 p.m.