Arkadelphia, Ark. – The SAU Softball team left the Ronnie Hawkins Memorial with three wins after defeating in-region competition on Saturday to improve to a 3-0 record on the season in a doubleheader where the Muleriders only allowed three hits over two games.

In game one, the Muleriders eked out a 1-0 victory over Rogers State courtesy of a Rachel Miller double down the left field line in the seventh inning that scored Hallie Saintignan. For the game, the Muleriders only mustered four hits but Victoria Taylor held the Hillcats hitless through 6.2 innings before an Allie McFetridge single broke up the junior's bid to follow up her perfect game yesterday with a no-hitter in this game.

Taylor only walked two batters, gave up the lone single and tied her career-high strikeout mark with 13 to improve to 2-0 on the season. For the season, Taylor has thrown 14 innings, given up two walks and one hit, and struck out 25 batters.

With the win today, Taylor becomes SAU's all-time winningest pitcher with 53 wins in her two-plus seasons in Magnolia.
In game two of the day, the Muleriders' offense exploded, scoring 10 runs in six innings on the back of a pair of three-run home runs courtesy of Laina Suesue and Chelsea Fagan.

The Muleriders first got on the board in the bottom of the second after Sarah Pitre hit a triple that scored Fagan. Christina Hill followed that with a single to center field that scored Pitre. Hill advanced on a wild pitch, and Saintignan walked and Miller singled. Hill scored on the next at-bat courtesy of a Sarah Evans hit by pitch. Saintignan scored on an error, and Suesue hit an inside the park homerun that plated three runs. In total, the Muleriders scored seven runs in the bottom of the second.
In the seventh inning, Miller and Suesue walked to set up a game-ending three-run home run from Fagan, her second three-run homer of the season.

In the circle, Sydney Wader picked up her first win as a Mulerider, pitching four scoreless innings, only allowing one hit and striking out four. Senior Brooke Ford-Nelson finished the game, pitching the final two innings, only allowing one hit and striking out one.

For the weekend, the Mulerider pitchers only allowed three hits over 20 innings, striking out 30 batters in the process and did not allow a run.

The Muleriders travel to Clearwater, Florida next weekend to take part in the NFCA Division II Leadoff Classic. The Muleriders will face some stiff competition in the form of three ranked teams – 22^nd Valdosta State; 18^th Palm Beach Atlantic; and, 5^th-ranked Saint Leo, as well as matchups against West Georgia and Tampa.