Box Score By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
Top-ranked Murray State continued its march through softball league play with a doubleheader sweep of Carl Albert State College on Thursday in Tishomingo.

Lady Aggie pitching continued to lead the way as they allowed just one run on seven hits in the two combined contests, winning game one 6-0 and then the nightcap 9-1.

Running their season record to 48-0, Murray State will close out the regular season on Saturday with a twinbill at University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

Sophomore Alexa Hopkins tossed five innings in the opener for the victory, allowing a pair of hits and struck out four. But the biggest story was the return of hurler Christina Clark, who had been out of action since March 19 after being involved in a car accident. The freshman stalwart fanned five hitters in two frames of two-hit relief while closing out the victory.

Murray State broke a scoreless deadlock with two runs in the third, fourth and fifth stanzas on the way to the shutout win.

Chesnie Hewitt's RBI triple got things going in the third and Rayna Rock chipped in a two-run homer in the fourth. Hewitt got back up in the fifth and blasted a home run as well to drive in a pair.

Hewitt's two hits and three RBI paced the six-hit attack. Abby Beck, Kenzie Tuck, Rock and Remi West all added one hit.

In the nightcap, Murray State grabbed an early 1-0 advantage just two batters in as Hewitt led off with a triple and scored on a K.J. Morgan single.

That's how it remained until the fourth inning when the Lady Aggie offense ignited for seven runs to take complete control. Morgan chipped in another RBI single but it was a Tuck grand slam that provided the biggest blow. In fact, Murray State went back-to-back-to-back as Rock and Brylea Russell followed the Tuck homer with bombs of their own.

Hewitt's solo homer added another insurance tally in the fifth to finish it off with the run rule. Hewitt, Morgan and Russell all notched two hits apiece to pace the Murray State eight-hit attack.

Ileana Lucio fired three scoreless innings, yielding one hit and struck out two to record the pitching victory. Clark contributed another perfect frame of relief in the fourth.