SERIES INFORMATION
ARKANSAS TECH GOLDEN SUNS 29-8 (18-3 GAC)	SOUTHERN NAZARENE CRIMSON STORM 23-20 (13-8 GAC)
Thursday, April 9 | 4 p.m. Tere Webber Field | Bethany, Okla. LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO Friday, April 10 | Noon | DH Tere Webber Field | Bethany, Okla. LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO

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LEADING OFF
The Arkansas Tech softball team will be on the road for their next Great American Conference series as they will head to Southern Nazarene.
 
The series is scheduled to start with a single game at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 9 and conclude with a doubleheader on Friday, April 10 starting at Noon.
 
The Golden Suns and Crimson Storm have met 51 times prior to their series this weekend. The series began in 2013 and has been played annually as conference foes since. Tech currently holds a 35-16 lead in the series.
 

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TECH(NICALLY) SPEAKING
The Golden Suns enter the series with an overall record of 29-8 and are 18-3 in the GAC. They have won 19-straight games and are most-recently coming off a doubleheader sweep on the road at Southwest Baptist this past Tuesday.
 
Offensively, the Golden Suns enter this weekend hitting .279 as a team (280-for-1,008) with 198 runs scored, 46 doubles, 10 triples and 31 home runs.
 
Aubree Jones currently leads the team in batting average at .356 (37-for-104). Aaliyah Dixon has provided the most power production thus far with a .632 slugging percentage thanks to five doubles, four triples and six home runs. Jones paces the team in RBIs with 31 while Anna Winkfield leads the team in runs scored with 31.
 
In the circle, the Golden Suns have a team ERA of 2.37 and have struck out 180 batters in 266.0 innings of work.
 
A total of five pitchers have appeared in the circle for the Golden Suns. Aly White, Ainlsee Moore and Emily Richarde made starts over Tech's most-recent weekend against Henderson State and figure to be in the rotation against Southern Nazarene.
 
White is 11-3 with a 1.61 ERA and has 47 strikeouts in 87.0 innings. Moore is 10-0 with a 2.52 ERA and has 44 strikeouts in 72.1 innings. Richarde is 5-2 with a 2.20 ERA and has 57 strikeouts in 60.1 innings.
 
Leading the Golden Suns is Jordon Jones. In her fourth season as head coach of the Golden Suns, Jones has amassed a 110-81 record at Tech. Prior to coming to Tech, Jones had head coaching stops at the NAIA level at Central Baptist in Conway and MidAmerica Nazarene in Kansas. Overall, her career record is 263-157.
 

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SCOUTING SOUTHERN NAZARENE
Southern Nazarene enters the series with Tech with a 23-20 overall record and a 13-8 record in the GAC. The Crimson Storm have won four of their last five games. Last weekend, they swept East Central on the road and are most-recently coming off a doubleheader split at home against No. 18 Central Oklahoma. SNU won the first game against UCO, 4-1 and then lost the second game, 10-1 in five innings.
 
Entering play against Tech, the Crimson Storm are hitting .277 as a team (305-for-1,102) with 191 runs scored, 59 doubles, nine triples and 22 home runs.
 
Eden Anderson currently leads the team in batting average at .368 (50-for-136). Anderson has also provided the biggest power threat thus far for the Crimson Storm and leads the team with a .574 slugging percentage thanks to 14 doubles, a triple and four home runs. Anderson also leads the team in RBIs with 33. Kristen Mullendore leads the team in runs scored with 28.
 
In the circle, the Crimson Storm have a team ERA of 3.03 and have struck out 224 batters in 280.0 innings of work.
 
The Crimson Storm used a weekend rotation of Baylee Sales and Olivia Hernandez in their weekend series against East Central. Those two figure to see action against Tech on Tuesday.
 
Sales is 11-6 with a 2.38 ERA with 108 strikeouts in 109.0 innings. Hernandez is 7-7 with a 2.41 ERA with 60 strikeouts in 69.2 innings.
 
Leading the Crimson Storm is Brian Madden. He is in his seventh season as head coach at Southern Nazarene. In his time at SNU, Madden is 182-138.