Box Score By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
Pitching was again dominant for top-ranked Murray State Saturday afternoon as the Lady Aggies swept a softball conference pair on the road at North Arkansas Community College.

The Lady Aggie pitching corps yielded just five singles on the day in winning 12-0 and 8-0 to improve to 28-0 on the season. They'll finish off the four-game conference series with another twinbill at 10 a.m. Sunday.

In the initial 12-0 romp, Christina Clark and Alexa Hopkins combined for the one-hit shutout and 12 strikeouts in just five innings of the run rule. Clark worked the first three perfect innings for the pitching win, facing the minimum nine hitters in which she fanned seven.

Murray State notched a pair of runs in the first frame to take the lead only two batters into the contest as Karsyn York drew a walk and K.J. Morgan followed with an inside-the-park home run down the rightfield line.

The Lady Aggies doubled the two-run first inning scoring output in the second, fueled by a Brylea Russell RBI trip, Jadyn Hook run-scoring double and a two-run single by Abby Beck.

A six-run Murray State explosion in the third frame put it completely out of reach at 12-0 as Russell, Morgan, Shallen Mershon and Beck all singled ahead of a Kenzie Tuck capping three-run blast over the leftfield fence.

Coach Aaron Mullens' club finished with 11 hits, topped by two hits and three RBI apiece from Morgan and Beck. Russell also tallied two hits with Tuck driving in three and Hook knocking home two.

Game two was much the same story as Murray State pushed across two runs in the first inning and cruised the rest of the way behind the pitching duo of Ileana Lucio and Hopkins. Lucio twirled three innings for the win, yielding two hits and struck out seven. Hopkins allowed two hits in two stanzas with all six outs coming via strikeout.

Morgan and Mershon posted back-to-back singles with one out in the first to ignite the Lady Aggie attack before an RBI single from Beck and run-scoring groundout off the bat of Tuck.

It was still 2-0 in the fourth when Rayna Rock smacked a double to left and two batters later Hook laced a home run to left as well to double the score.

Murray State notched four more runs in the fifth to help end it on the run rule as Chesnie Hewitt and Rock contributed singles along with RBI doubles from Mershon and Russell.

Mershon led the charge with three hits, including a pair of doubles. Rock and Hook tossed in two hits each.