ARLINGTON, Texas – UTA scored in all but one inning Sunday afternoon to take game three and the series as the Mavericks defeated South Alabama 8-1 at Allan Saxe Field.

UP NEXT
- South Alabama (9-13, 0-3 SBC) will return home to host Texas State for a three-game series, beginning on Fri., (March 15) at 6 p.m. Games two and three will be Sat. (March 16) and Sun. (March 17) at 3 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively, at Jaguar Field.

Date: 3/10
Place: Allan Saxe Field (Arlington, Texas)

Final Score: UTA 8, South Alabama 1
Records: UTA (13-10, 3-0 SBC), South Alabama (9-13, 0-3 SBC)

KEY MOMENT OF THE GAME
- UTA loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the first and then had the first of three runs in the inning cross the plate on Aileen Garcia's bases-loaded walk.

STANDOUT PERFORMERS
- Savanna Mayo scored the lone run for the Jaguars as she hit her second home run of the season.
- Brittani Reid, Kamdyn Kvistad, Katelyn Gruich and Megan Harris had the four other hits in the contest for South Alabama.
- UTA's Laura Curry had a game-high three hits in her four at-bats, and drove in a pair of runs for the Mavericks.
- Walton also had two hits and a walk, scoring four times. Bri Burchanti also had two RBI.
- Randi Phillips (6-5) tossed four innings of three-hit, shutout relief to earn the win.

GAME FACTS
- The Mavericks loaded the base to start their half of the opening frame after a pair of singles and a walk. Garcia then plated the first run of the inning as she walked to bring in Walton (1-0). Two batters later, UTA extended its lead to 3-0 as Burchanti singled back up the middle, allowing Krista Rude and Curry to score.
- UTA added a run to its lead as the Mavs manufactured a run. Walton singled down the left field line and then moved to second on a wild pitch before being sacrificed to third by Rude. Curry then brought in the UTA shortstop with a single to left (4-0).
- In the Jags' half of the third, Mayo led off the inning with a solo shot to center to, her second of the season, to cut the deficit to 4-1.
- The Mavs picked up another run (5-1) in the bottom of the fourth. Walton reached for her third time in as many plate appearances with a two-out walk. Walton moved into scoring position with a stolen base and then came around to score on Rude's double to left.
- Wright extended UTA's advantage to 6-1 in the bottom of the fifth as she homered to left with one out on the first pitch she saw of her at-bat. The home run was the third of the season for Wright.
- South Alabama placed multiple runners on base for the first time in the top of the sixth as Kvistad and Gruich both singled, but a ground out to Walton at short ended the inning.
- KJ Murphy reached with a one-out, pinch-hit single in the bottom of the sixth and UTA then put runners at second and third when Kennedy Cronan's throw to second was high trying to get the lead runner at second on Walton's fielder's choice. Two batters later, Curry singled, scoring two more runs to make it 8-1, UTA.

NOTES
- The meeting between South Alabama and UTA marked the 19th in the all-time series between the two clubs.  
- With her leadoff double to start the game, B. Reid extended her career-best hit streak to 11 games, while also reaching base safely for the 15th consecutive outing.
- The 11-game hit streak by B. Reid is now tied with three other players for ninth longest in program history and is the first time a Jag has had a hit streak of 11 or more games since Kaleigh Todd's 14-game streak last season.
- Kvistad extended her career-best six game hit streak in the top of the sixth with a single through the left side of the infield.
- With Mayo's home run to start the third – the ninth of the senior second  baseman's career – South Alabama has now hit at least one home run in 16 of its last 19 outings.
- The leadoff home run by Mayo was also the fourth to begin an inning by the Jaguars this season and the 11th solo home run recorded by the club.
- South Alabama extended its season home run total to 23 with Mayo's home run on Sunday. For the series, the Jags finished the weekend with five against the Mavs.
- UTA posted big first innings in all three games of the series tallying a total of nine runs in the opening frame.

THEY SAID IT
Head coach Becky Clark
- On the game: "I didn't think we played well today. I thought we found some fight, but we didn't have the execution to go along with it. You have to put those two things together. When you see your team digging in and they have some fight about them, you like that part of it. The part you don't like is the lack of execution on things they know how to execute. I think this week of practice is going to be a big week for us. Our mentality going into this week needs to be 100 percent working to get better and getting ready for a very good team coming in next weekend."

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