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MOBILE, Ala. – ­No. 13 University of South Alabama softball completed a Sun Belt Conference series sweep over UT-Arlington on Sunday after coming back from a run down in the seventh to topple the Mavericks, 2-1, in eight innings.
 
USA (25-3) moves to 3-0 in SBC play and extends its current win streak to nine games. The Jags will continue league play when it travels to Troy for a midweek clash on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
 
South Alabama outhit the Mavericks, 7-3, on the day, but erred four times, which ties for the third most committed by a Jaguar club in USA single-game history.
 
Blair Johnson led USA at the plate with a 3-for-4 outing, the junior left fielder scoring the game-winning run on Amanda Herron's two-out RBI double in the bottom of the eighth. Herron finished the weekend with a team-high four RBI. Pinch-runner Gwen Jones scored the game-tying run in the bottom of the seventh when UTA shortstop Nina Villanueva's routine throw to first sailed into the visitors' dugout.
 
Farish Beard struck out seven in six innings of work and gave up the UT-Arlington run before being relieved by Hannah Campbell, who eventually moved to 9-2 on the year after striking out one and issuing no walks to pick up the win.
 
After defeating the Mavericks by a combined score of 17-0 and recording 19 hits in two mercy-rule victories on Saturday, USA struggled at the plate on Getaway Day, managing only a trio of hits before succumbing to a 1-0 deficit in the top of the sixth when Nina Villanueva delivered an RBI single up the middle to score Britnea Barilli, who led off the inning with a single.
 
With runners on second and third, Beard retired the final two Maverick batters in the inning to stop the bleeding before Campbell entered in the top of the seventh.
 
USA threatened to knot scoring in the bottom of the sixth after a Stephanie Pilkington leadoff single and Johnson double, but Kaitlyn Griffith's bloop was snagged by Villanueva in shallow left, and Chloe Rathburn grounded out to first.
 
Campbell was tested immediately upon her entry in the top of the seventh when UTA catcher Kacey Everett reached on a Jaguar throwing error and her pinch-runner, Lauren Ramsey, was pushed to third on a sacrifice bunt, but Messer's look off kept Ramsey on third in a squeeze attempt, and Campbell forced a groundout to end the chance.
 
The Jaguars made good on their bounce-back attempt and inning later when Jones, pinch-running for Alex Breeden, who singled, stepped across the plate on a Maverick throwing error, one of the visitors' pair on Sunday.
 
Campbell retired all three UTA batters in the first-half inning of extras, before Herron lifted a double over the head of Maverick right fielder Jojo Schaefer to plate Johnson, who led off with a single, from first.
 
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