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Murray State Sports Information
MENA, Ark – Third-ranked Murray State rallied with four runs in the final inning to polish off a road sweep over University of Arkansas Rich Mountain Saturday, giving head coach Aaron Mullens his 300^th coaching victory.

The Lady Aggies notched 13-2 and 13-12 triumphs to bump their conference record to 20-0 while also moving to 43-5 overall. Rich Mountain meanwhile slipped to 28-17 overall and 16-8 in league play.

Murray State returns home Wednesday for the first of six conference games to close the schedule next week with a noon doubleheader against North Arkansas College.

In Saturday's opener the Lady Aggies were nursing a 3-2 lead through five innings before erupting for five runs in each of the final two stanzas in breaking things completely open.

Bradi Harman had the key blow to begin the late Murray State uprising with a two-run homer to centerfield. Courtney Grey contributed a two-run double and Gracie Lute followed with an RBI double as well.

The seventh inning burst was ignited by Karsyn York's leadoff double in front of a Kennedy Lord home run. Grey tripled in another run and Lute belted a two-run double to cap the flurry.

Grey fired four innings, yielding two runs on two hits and struck out two on the way to the pitching victory. Harman tossed the final three stanzas for the save, allowing no runs on one hit with five strikeouts.

Murray State tallied 12 hits, fueled by Grey's double, triple and four runs batted in. Lute contributed a homer and double with three RBI with York also chipping in two hits. Lord, Harman, Shaylin Midgley, Bree Butler, Lexi Meadows and Mattie Richardson all posted one hit.

Trailing 12-9 and down to their final three outs in the nightcap, the Lady Aggies responded in a massive way. Butler walked, Meadows singled and Richardson doubled to get things rolling and trim the deficit to two.

York drove in another with a sacrifice fly and Lord's sac fly knotted the score. Harman kept things alive with a double and came around to give Murray State the lead on back-to-back passed balls.

Harman also finished it off in the pitching circle with a scoreless seventh to record the victory despite yielding four runs on three hits over four innings. Grey also contributed an inning and two-thirds of scoreless relief.

Murray State took a 6-1 lead in the second inning before Rich Mountain countered with seven in the back-and-forth affair. The Lady Aggies surged back in front with three tallies in the third stanza with Rich Mountain plating four in the sixth.

The Lady Aggies posted 15 hits as York paced the arsenal with three hits, including a triple, and drove in five. Richardson racked up three hits as well, drove in four and scored three times.

Lord homered as part of her two hits and three RBI. Grey and Butler each notched two hits while Harman, Haili Igou and Meadows all added one hit.