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Murray State Sports Information
HARRISON, Ark. – Murray State's softball team beat the rain and the North Arkansas College Lady Pioneers a whopping four times for a rare quadruple header sweep on the road Monday afternoon in northern Arkansas.

The second-ranked Lady Aggies won the opening pair 10-0 and 16-2 and followed up with 15-6 and 8-0 victories to finish things off as they outscored the hosts by a grand total of 49-8 while upping their record to 51-1 overall and 28-0 in Region 2 action.

Coach Aaron Mullens' squad is slated to return home on Thursday when they will put their 31-game winning streak on the line against Carl Albert State College in a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.

Alanna Routt and Isabella Hardeman set the tone for the day in game one as the duo combined for a no-hitter in the five-inning run rule. Routt fired the first four frames with Hardeman tossing the fifth while combining for five strikeouts and three walks.

Murray State grabbed a 2-0 lead right out of the gate behind a Bradi Harman run-scoring double and Cady Ammons RBI single and never looked back. They tacked on single tallies in the third and fourth stanza ahead of scoring six times in the fifth on the strength of two-run doubles by both Kennedy Lord and Avery Beauchamp.

North Ark grabbed a 2-0 edge in the second contest, but the Lady Aggies immediately had the answer en route to scoring 16 unanswered runs over the next three innings.

Harman had a massive outing offensively, tossing in three hits and drove in six runs. Lord also had three hits. DrewAnne White was stellar in five innings of one-hit relief, striking out five and walking three on the way to the pitching win.

Game three saw the Murray State bats explode for a day's high 19 hits in only four at bats. A whopping 14 of those hits went for extra bases, including a pair of triples and pair of doubles by Haili Igou as she scored three times and drove in three. 

Brylee Fanning contributed three doubles and knocked in four runs with Beauchamp also connecting for three hits, including two of the doubles. Ammons finished with two doubles as well.

Ava Boozer twirled four innings, scattering five earned runs on six hits with one strikeout and two walks to record the win in the circle.

Staff aces Hardeman and Harman put the exclamation point on the rare four-game sweep in the nightcap as they combined on a perfect game. Hardeman struck out 11 in four innings of work while Harman chipped in a pair of strikeouts in one stanza.

Murray State scored eight times in the first frame and put it in cruise control from there. Adison Lee smacked a two-run homer and Igou drove in three runs with a single.