ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Womack. Adorno. More than enough offense. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. It seems that has been the modus operandi for #6/3 Southern Arkansas for most of the weekend action played to this point in the season and that certainly continued on Sunday. Womack gave Southern Arkansas eight strong innings, dispersing just four hits and run, while retiring a dozen, Adorno worked around five hits and two runs over six strong innings with nine punch outs and the Muleriders combined for 19 hits and 18 runs over the two games from Rab Rodgers Field claiming wins of 5-1 and 13-2 to improve to 17-2 on the season with an unblemished 11-0 mark in Great American Conference play.
 
Womack earned his third win of the season as he worked around the bases loaded in the first inning, before not allowing a hit or a base runner over the next four to get him to the sixth where he would a 4-1 lead waiting on him. In that three-run frame, which followed a solo blast from the bat of freshman Jakob Machuca in the fifth inning, a throwing error off of a batted ball by freshman Brandon Nicoll allowed sophomore Chris Sutton to score, before Machuca plated two more with a one-out single through the left side to cushion Womack's efforts.
 
In the pre-stretch seventh, junior Brett McGee singled in junior Riley Orr to put SAU up 4-1. Womack worked around a base runner in the seventh and eighth innings, before being relieved by freshman Evan Schroeder who worked the ninth needing just 11 pitches to do so.
 
Machuca recorded two hits and three RBI in the opener to lead SAU offensively.
 
Southern Arkansas' offense ignited in the seven-inning affair pushing across five runs in the first, one in the fourth, five more in the fifth and two more in the seventh. Nicoll collected three hits with two going for extra bases including a first-inning double that opened scoring by plating Sutton and a fifth-inning grand slam that stamped an all-around performance by the Blue & Gold on the Sabbath.
 
In addition to Nicoll's run-scoring double, Machuca tallied three more RBI as he cleared the bases with a double down the right field line, while Orr laid a bunt down toward third that sneaked in the fifth first inning run. Senior Tucker Burton doubled home a run in the fourth, junior Conner Allen singled in a run in the fifth prior to Nicoll's slam and in the seventh senior Cameron Lang cranked a two-run blast to cap scoring in support of another quality start by Adorno. The right hander faced seven over the minimum, walked just one and aside from three Ouachita hits in the second inning allowed just two over his five other frames of work.
 
Nicoll went 3-for-5 in game two with five RBI and three runs scored. Burton, Machuca and Orr all recorded two hits.
 
The Muleriders and Tigers conclude the series on Monday at 11 a.m. in Clark County. Live coverage links are available at www.MuleriderAthletics.com.