MAGNOLIA – The Mulerider offense started slow this weekend against Southwestern Oklahoma, scoring in the first inning on a Bulldog error and not scoring again until the fifth inning.

Despite the lead, the Muleriders were hitless until a Jaxynn Dyson single to lead off the bottom of the fifth inning spoiled Bulldogs pitcher Miranda Grover's no-hit bid.

Following Dyson's hit, Maeson Grace and Laina Suesue followed with singles of their own, with Suesue's scoring Dyson to double the lead.

Grace would score on a wild pitch, and Suesue would score on a Faith Otts double, one of five times the third baseman would reach base over the two games.

Sarah Evans finished the scoring for the Muleriders with a two-run homerun laser to left center, giving the Muleriders their seventh run.

The Bulldogs would pull a run back in the top of the next inning, and the score finalized at 7-1.

Sydney Wader went the distance and picked up her 12^th win of the season in the process. The senior only allowed five hits and one run, walking one and striking out six.

The Mulerider offense woke up in game two, with Elisa Favela, who also started inside the circle, homering for the seventh time this season, a three-run shot.

Chelsea Fagan would start the scoring off in the third inning, hitting a three-run homerun of her own.

Christina Hill would score on an error, and Otts and Favela would produce back-to-back RBI singles before Fagan hit her second three-run homerun of the game and of the inning as the Muleriders placed a 10-spot on the Bulldogs.

Suesue would drive in a pair of runs on a double in the next inning, and Favela would hit her second three-run homerun of the game to finish the scoring at 18 runs for the Muleriders.

In addition to driving in seven runs and sending two balls past the fence, Favela got the start inside the circle.

Only working three innings, the senior struck out seven of the nine batters she faced, picking up her third win of the season in the process.

Kim Abundis and Madeline Barber would each pitch a shutout inning in relief, with the freshman Barber striking out the last batter on her collegiate debut.

The Muleriders improve to 20-2 on the season and 10-0 in conference play. They host the day two doubleheader tomorrow morning starting at 11 a.m.