Box Score By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
Top-ranked Murray State shook off the challenge of 15^th rated Indian Hills in game one and then cruised by Fort Scott Community College to finish off a clean sweep of the Branson Bash Sunday afternoon in Branson, Missouri.

The unbeaten Lady Aggies upped their record 22-0 heading into Tuesday's 1 p.m. conference doubleheader at Eastern Oklahoma State College.

It was a tight one throughout against Indian Hills but the Lady Aggie pitching proved dominant once again as Christina Clark and Alexa Hopkins combined on the three-hit shutout. Clark worked the first five innings for the victory, scattering all three hits while striking out four, as Hopkins fired two frames of hitless relief to pick up the save.

Murray State tallied one run in each of the first two stanzas, which proved to be the only runs of the game as the Lady Aggies made the most of three of their four hits in the contest.

K.J. Morgan singled in the first and eventually came around to score on a two-out error off the bat of Kenzie Tuck. Chesnie Hewitt doubled to start the second frame, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from Brylea Russell and scored on Jordyn Hook's bunt single. Hewitt finished with two of the four hits.

The pitching trio of Ileana Lucio, Clark and Hopkins all got in on the action in the 7-1 second game triumph over Fort Scott. Lucio tossed three innings, yielding one run on four hits with four strikeouts to record the win.

Murray State took a 1-0 lead in the second frame, cashing in a Tuck double and Rayna Rock single, before erupting for three runs an inning later to take command. Karsyn York opened that stanza with a single and scored on Shallen Mershon's double. Abby Beck immediately followed with a RBI single and Tuck doubled home another run.

Fort Scott narrowed the gap with a run in the fourth before the Lady Aggies answered right back, scoring twice fueled by a Beck triple and Rock double. Murray's final run came in the seventh after Tuck doubled with two out and scored on Rock's third hit of the game.

Tuck also posted three hits with York, Mershon, Beck and Hook all adding two.