MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Lady Mulerider softball team improved its win-streak to fourteen as they secured a doubleheader sweep of Arkansas-Monticello on Rivalry Tuesday in its final regular season conference action in Magnolia. 
 
TEAM RECORDS 
(#5) Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders (44-4, 33-3 GAC)
Arkansas-Monticello Cotton Blossoms (7-38, 7-27 GAC)
 
PITCHING DECISIONS – GAME 1
W – Victoria Taylor (21-0)
L – Kaylee Freeman (1-9)
S – None
 
GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS & HAPPENINGS

• Taylor recorded her third-most strikeouts this season with 11 in the contest and it was also the 19^th time this season she has allowed five or fewer hits to opponents in 23 games started
• Additionally, it was Taylor's seventh recorded shutout this season
• For the 15^th time this season, SAU as a team has struck out at the plate two or fewer times
• The win for SAU improved its win-streak to 13 which is the longest of the season
• Senior Brooke Goad was responsible for SAU's run support in the game as she left the yard twice in solo form that pushed SAU to its 2-0 final decision

 
AT THE PLATE

• As a team, the Lady Muleriders combined for ten hits, two of which went for extra bases
• Goad, Rachel Miller, and Faith Otts each tallied a pair of hits in the contest that led SAU
• Jill Roye, Megan Godoyo, Hallie Saintignan, and Sarah Pitre collected a hit apiece

 
PITCHING DECISIONS – GAME 2
W – Jolie Trahan (6-0)
L – Abigail Leonards (3-18)
S – None
 
GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS & HAPPENINGS

• Trahan recorded a new career-high ten strikeouts as she went the distance for Southern Arkansas and marked her sixth-straight win of the season after seven innings of work
• It was also the third time in seven starts this season that Trahan has shutout an opponent, and the fifth time this season she has allowed five or fewer hits
• SAU's seven runs in the contest was the 25th time this season SAU has scored seven or more runs in a game of the 47 games played this year  
• SAU grabbed an early lead in the first inning via Marina Duran's RBI single to right field, 1-0
• Duran plated another run in the third and put SAU up 2-0 on an RBI double to the right-center field wall
• Roye and Goad were responsible for the additional pair of runs plated in that inning on a bases-loaded RBI groundout and a walk drawn, respectively
• In the fourth inning, Roye left the yard for the sixth time this season and the first since March 9^TH with a 2-run shot out right-center field that made it 6-0
• Miller left the yard in the next inning with a towering solo shot out to left-center that pushed SAU to its eventual 7-0

 
AT THE PLATE

• SAU tallied nine hits as a team, four of those going for extra bases
• Roye led SAU with 3 RBI and was 2-for-3 with a dinger and a run scored
• Duran tallied a pair of RBI in her 2-for-4 effort at the dish with two runs scored
• Miller and Goad each collected an RBI apiece