MAGNOLIA, Ark. – #10/9 Southern Arkansas split Saturday's Great American Conference twin bill with Ouachita by winning the series opener 7-4, before dropping the second game of the doubleheader 6-5 in eight innings. The Muleriders, under seventh-year head coach Justin Pettigrew, handled business in Sunday's rubber match winning 7-4 to take the series and improve to 16-5 in league play in advance of this coming weekend's GAC series at Arkansas Tech which sits tied at the top of the league standings with the Muleriders.

Jeremy Adorno (5-1) and Wyatt Marr (4-0) earned the wins for the Muleriders over the weekend with Santos Sosa (3) earning the save in each contest. Adorno tossed 7.1 innings working around eight hits and four runs with seven strikeouts in the series opener. Marr pitched 5.2 innings allowing six hits and three runs, but fanned seven with no walks in the series finale. In his two appearances, Sosa combined for 2.2 innings allowing just one hit and one walk with two strikeouts.

Conner Allen, Chris Lyles and Brandon Nicoll all recorded four hits for the Muleriders in the series. Of SAU's 27 hits over three games, 11 went for extra bases. Allen led with two doubles and a triple, Chris Sutton homered as did Brett McGee who sent the 14^th pitch of his fourth-inning at bat in the series opener out to right field for his GAC-record tying 51^st career home run.

Sutton led SAU with four runs scored, Lyles and Riley Orr followed with three. Nicoll and McGee each delivered five RBI. The Muleriders combined for 15 walks and five HBP and were perfect on all seven stolen base attempts in the series win.

Southern Arkansas combined for nearly half of its 19 total runs in the middle three innings. The Muleriders pushed across a collective nine runs in the fourth through sixth innings with eight runs coming in the fourth inning. SAU added an additional five runs in the seventh inning.

Two of those five post-stretch runs came in game two as the Muleriders used RBI contact by Nicoll and an RBI double from Allen in the final frame of the scheduled seven-inning contest to tie the game at 5-5 after the Tigers took a 5-3 lead in the top half. Ouachita responded with an RBI double in the top of the eighth to hold on for a series-salvaging victory.

Southern Arkansas heads to Cleveland, Mississippi to matchup with longtime Gulf South Conference rival Delta State for the second time in a week's span. First pitch for Tuesday's midweek tilt with the Statesmen is set for 3 p.m. Live coverage links will be made available at www.MuleriderAthletics.com.