Searcy, Ark. – The Lady Mulerider softball team dropped both games in Saturday's GAC doubleheader top-10 matchup with Harding. Game one finished with a 3-1 defeat and game two ended 1-0 in the bottom of the seventh inning.
 
 
TEAM RECORDS
Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders: 35-11, 25-9 GAC
Harding Lady Bisons: 42-4, 32-2 GAC
 
PITCHING DECISIONS- GAME 1
W: Hannah Johnson (20-2)
L: Peyton Jenkins (1-2)
S: Autumn Humes (4)
 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED- GAME 1

• Harding scratched the first run of the game in the first inning on a pair of hits. The lead-off hitter for the Lady Bison singled to right field and she was batted in a couple batters later on an RBI double from Payton Mills.
• SAU matched Harding's score in the next inning on three consecutive singles from Tyler Casada, Marina Duran, and Rachel Miller. Miller's hit up the middle sent Casada home to tie the score at 1-all.
• The Lady Bison answered in the bottom of the third with the go-ahead run on a fielding error that followed a single and scored the lead-off hitter of the inning, who previously reached base on a bunt single.
• In the fourth inning, Harding extended their one run lead out to 3-1 on an RBI double by Payton Mills in the right center field gap.
• In the seventh inning, SAU threatened with a pair of base runners on a Duran single and a hit-by-pitch to Miller. Pinch hitter, Taylor Stricklin, laid down the sacrifice bunt to move the runners to second and third. With one out, Harding's pitcher retired the next two batters leaving SAU unable to rally back.

 
IN THE CIRCLE

• Peyton Jenkins suffered the loss in the circle for SAU with a 3-run on 6-hits effort through six innings pitched.
• HU's starting pitcher, Johnson, picked up the win and allowed one run on seven hits.

 
 
AT THE PLATE

• SAU's only run of the game came courtesy of an RBI single from Miller.
• Both teams combined for leaving 15 runners on base (SAU 7, HU 8).
• SAU out-hit their opponent 7-6 in the game.

 

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PITCHING DECISIONS- GAME 2
W: Autumn Humes (21-1)
L: Jill Roye (3-2)
 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED- GAME 2

• Tremendous pitching performances kept a scoreless game until the bottom of the seventh inning.
• Harding was able to reach base in almost every inning except the fifth.

• Southern Arknasas was held hitless until the top of the seventh inning when Miller reached base on a two-out single, but the Lady Muleriders couldn't scratch a run.
• In the bottom of that frame, Harding posted a threatening situation as they led off the inning with a double down the right field line. Subsequently, a single followed by a throwing error allowed the winning run to score for Harding in walk-off fashion.

 
IN THE CIRCLE

• Roye suffered the loss in the circle for SAU after pitching the final two innings and allowing one run one three hits.
• Harding's pitcher, Humes, threw all seven innings and allowed only one hit and one walk picking up the 1-0 win over SAU.

 
AT THE PLATE

• SAU's lone hit came in the seventh inning on Miller's single.
• Both teams combined for leaving 12 runners on base (SAU 4, HU 8).

 
 
UP NEXT

• The Lady Muleriders travel to Monticello on Tuesday for a GAC doubleheader with UAM. First pitch of the DH is scheduled for 2 p.m.