FLORENCE, Ala. --- The Mississippi College softball team swept both ends of a doubleheader at #4 North Alabama, snapping a 21-game win streak and handing UNA their first conference losses of the season on Friday afternoon at the UNA Softball Complex.

The Lady Choctaws improved to 16-10 overall with a 9-7 Gulf South Conference mark, while the Lions fell to 23-4 and 13-2 in league play. 
 

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MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE 3, #4 NORTH ALABAMA 2 (GAME ONE)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Lions would scratch the scoreboard first with three singles in the second inning, grabbing a 1-0 lead through two frames.
- After being held scoreless over four innings, the Lady Choctaws broke out the bats in the fifth as junior Makenzie Nieto led things off with a double.
- Nieto would score the game-tying run as freshman Jessica Aron hit her second triple of the week.
- MC would take advantage of a defensive miscue by the Lions and Aron would come home to score and give the Lady Choctaws a 2-1 lead.
- Senior Katherine Lee drove in the third run of the inning with a single that would score junior Alexia Harmon.
- The Lions would not go away, however, as a solo home run by Harley Stokes to lead off the sixth would cut the MC lead to 3-2.
- Junior Cori Cooper came out of the bullpen to get the final two outs of the sixth inning and recorded the save by pitching around a leadoff walk in the seventh. 

KEY STATS
- Junior Adrianna Morgan (6-0) collected the win in the circle for MC, scattering eight hits and two earned runs over 5.1 innings.
- Cooper would earn her first save of the season by getting the final five outs with just one runner reaching base and stranding an inherited runner at third.
- Lee led the MC offense with two hits and her 97^th career stolen base.
- Megan Garst (10-2) took the loss for the Lions, striking out nine and allowing five hits and two earned runs over the complete game effort.
- Bailey Nelson led the UNA offense with three hits, while Stokes had two with the home run.
 

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MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE 10, #4 NORTH ALABAMA 1 – 6 Innings (GAME TWO)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Lady Choctaws got things going early in the second game as junior Brianna Caldwell singled home Lee with two outs in the first inning.
- The score would remain 1-0 until the fourth inning when the MC offense scored seven runs on six hits, their highest-scoring frame of the season.
- The Lady Choctaws would score their first run of the inning on a UNA error, but freshman Kayla Murphy made the score 5-0 with a two-run single that scored Lee and Harmon.
- Sophomore Carly Crawford doubled home a run, while RBI singles from junior Kristen Qualls and Nieto made the score 8-0.
- The Lions were able to extend the game with a two-out solo home run in the fifth, but MC would finish the contest off in the next inning.
- Caldwell hit her team-leading seventh home run of the season in the sixth inning, making the score 10-1. 

KEY STATS
- The 14 hits for the Lady Choctaws is tied for the second-most in a single game this season.
- Caldwell led five players with multi-hit nights, tallying three base-knocks with three RBI.
- The 2-6 hitters would finish the game 11-of-18 with eight RBI.
- Caldwell joined Lee as the Lady Choctaws to score twice in the game, while Murphy also had a multi-RBI game.
- Cooper (4-1) tossed a complete game for the Lady Choctaws, allowing just five hits with six strikeouts.
- Meleah Hargett and Kara Brewer each had two hits for UNA, while Hargett hit the solo home run.
- Laken Distefano (9-1) took her first loss of the season, giving up seven hits and five earned runs over 3.1 innings.
 

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NEXT UP
- The Lady Choctaws and Lions are scheduled to wrap up the series on Saturday with a single game at 1:00 p.m.
 

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Mississippi College is a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi with an enrollment of over 5,000 students. MC recently finished their transition process back to NCAA Division II and the Gulf South Conference and started competing for conference and national championships in the 2016-17 academic year.
 
The athletic department sponsors 17 intercollegiate athletic programs: Baseball, Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Cross Country, Football, Golf, Men's and Women's Soccer, Softball, Men's and Women's Tennis, Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field, Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field and Volleyball.
 
For more information on Mississippi College athletics, please contact David Nichols at 601-925-3234 or nichols@mc.edu.