The Mustangs trailed 3-0 after two Grizzly homers in the first inning of game one but came back to take it 6-3 as both Kristina Barr (San Diego, CA, La Costa Canyon High School, Central Community College) and Sarah Almanza (El Paso, TX, JM Hank High School, Ranger Junior College) hit homers to lift the Mustangs to the extra-inning win. WNMU couldn't keep the bats going in game two as they fell by a 15-2 run-rule score.

The Mustangs, who had lost five of their last six coming in, are now 13-24 overall and 10-16 in RMAC play, good for a tie with Fort Lewis for the eighth and final RMAC Tournament spot.

In game one, the Grizzlies jumped out to a 3-0 thanks two homeruns. They were able to hold the lead until the third when back-to-back blasts by WNMU's Rebecca Reynolds (Benson, AZ, Benson High School) and Barr tied things up at three.

Neither team was able to score through regulation. Finally in the ninth inning, Barr connected for 11th homerun of the season to put the Mustangs on top. Almanza then drilled her second homer of the season to add on to the lead. 

Pitcher Priscilla Garcia (Albuquerque, NM, St. Pius X High School) gave up only one walk in the bottom of the ninth to end the game and improve to 9-12 on the season. Overall, Garcia allow eight hits and six walks but kept the Grizzlies scoreless for eight straight innings.

Barr, the RMAC's leading hitter at .500 coming in, finished the game 2-for-4, but saw her batting average drop to .487 after she went 0-for-3 in the second game.

The Grizzlies went up 3-0 in the first inning in game two after a three-run homer. The Mustangs got two of those runs back on a Barr RBI groundout and a Stephanie Bisgard (Scottsdale, AZ, Coronado High School, Mesa Community College) single in the top of the third, but the Grizzlies score four more runs in the bottom of the inning and eight more in the fourth to go ahead by 13 and end the game early.

Almanza suffered the loss in the pitching circle and fell to 2-2 after giving up six hits and five runs while Brittany Shannon (Silver City, NM, Silver High School, New Mexico State University) allowed eight hits and 10 runs, nine of them earned.

The two teams will play another doubleheader on Saturday, starting at 10:00 a.m., an hour earlier than the previously scheduled time of 11:00 a.m. 

Click here for game one statistics. 

Click here for game two statistics.