MAGNOLIA, Ark. – On the final home date of the 2015 regular season, the Southern Arkansas softball team picked up a pair of one-run victories over Southern Nazarene to sweep Monday's doubleheader and take the overall series 3-1.
 
Game one was a 1-0 shutout authored by freshman right-hander Abby Weaver, who was making her first collegiate start, and game two was a come-from-behind 4-3 win with all four runs scoring in the bottom of the sixth.
 
In the game one shutout, Weaver was a ground ball machine as eight of her first nine outs were groundouts. Weaver, the White Hall, Ark. native, would continue to miss the barrel of the Crimson Storm (17-26, 13-18 GAC) bats the remainder of the game as she scattered four hits, all singles, while totaling 13 groundouts.
 
Southern Nazarene would not notch their first hit off of Weaver until two outs in the third inning and the knock was an infield single to shortstop.
 
With Weaver in control of SNU, her offense gave her the lone run of support she would need in the bottom of the second inning as Summer Ehrig doubled into left-centerfield to score Sarah Higginbotham, who led off the inning with a single through the left side.
 
Staked to that 1-0 lead, Weaver would receive some help from her defense to keep the shutout intact as in the top of the sixth, left fielder Taylor Guin fired home trying to cut down Kylie Lang, who was trying to score the tying run from second base on a single through the left side by SNU's Allie Baird. Guin's throw would be cutoff by third baseman Audrey Farfan who rifled the relay into the plate with enough time for Higginbotham to slap the tag down for the final out.
 
In the seventh, Weaver would work around a one out walk, her only free pass of the game, to close the door and secure the shutout.
 
In game two, four innings would go by with no score as starters Chancy Williams and Katelyn Brown locked heads in a pitcher's duel.
 
Williams would be the first one to surrender a run in the game as SNU scored a pair of runs in the fifth inning to take a 2-0 lead. A single run by the Crimson Storm in the sixth extended the lead out 3-0, but SAU would start a rally in the bottom half.
 
In that frame, the first three Lady Muleriders would single to load the bases with no outs, prompting a pitching change for SNU as they called upon game one starter and ace Kayla Wyatt.
 
During the first batter Wyatt faced, she uncorked a wild pitch to allow the first run to score for SAU with the other runners advancing 60-feet to remain in scoring position. Later in that at-bat, Chelsea Ivy ripped a two-run double into the left field corner to knot the game at three-all. Two batters later, Ivy scampered home with the go-ahead run on a single through the left side by Higginbotham after SNU opted to walk Maddie Dow for the fourth time in the game in the at-bat prior.
 
In the top of the seventh, Jami Godwin, who came on in relief of Williams in the fifth, got two quick outs before surrendering a hit to put the tying run on base, but a harmless groundout to the shortstop in the next at-bat ended the game and completed the come-from-behind victory for SAU.
 
The Lady Muleriders will now take to the road for their final six games of the regular season as they first head to Commerce, Texas on Tuesday afternoon to take on first-year program Texas A&M-Commerce in a doubleheader slated to start at 4 p.m.