Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 By Kevin Farr
Murray State Sports Information
The fourth-ranked Lady Aggie softball team raced to a big early lead in game one and continued the onslaught in the second contest for a dominant conference sweep of Carl Albert State College in Tishomingo on Thursday.

Coach Aaron Mullens' squad moved to 39-5 overall and 16-0 in league action with 9-1 and 19-1 victories. Carl Albert's conference record evened at 11-11.

Murray State travels to Southern Arkansas Tech on Monday to begin its final road stretch of the regular season with four contests in Arkansas before closing with their last eight games at home.

In Thursday's opener, the Lady Aggies got off to a blazing start with seven runs in the first stanza and never looked back. Karsyn York led off with a single and rode home a Bradi Harman double, but that was only the start as the biggest blow came on a Mattie Richardson three-run homer.

Murray State tallied a pair of runs in the fourth to secure the run rule margin as Kennedy Lord belted a solo home run and Shaylin Midgley singled in another tally.

Courtney Grey fired four innings for the pitching win, allowing a run on five hits with five strikeouts and one walk. Harman fanned three straight batters in one frame of relief work.

Midgley and Harman paced the nine-hit offensive arsenal with two hits and one RBI apiece. Richardson chipped in one hit and three batted in while Lexi Meadows added two RBI on one hit.

The Lady Aggies scored at least twice in every stanza of game two, pounding 15 hits in just four innings. Bella Butler smacked a pair of home runs as part of her three hits and six runs batted in. Harman also contributed three hits, including a pair of doubles.

Midgley finished with two hits and four RBI while Lord, Morgan Skold, Emily Rogers, Haeley Vasquez, Meadows, Richardson and Brynn Surmont all posted one hit. Lord and Surmont each drove in two.

Dara Hamlin tossed three scoreless innings for the pitching victory, yielding one hit and struck out two. Brooklyn Ellis allowed one run on four hits in her one inning and Harman closed things again by striking out all three batters in the final frame.