HUNTSVILLE, Texas – After being no-hit in the opener Friday, Northwestern State rebounded to produce 12 hits in a 6-4, 10-inning win against Sam Houston State.

Freshman Maggie Black delivered a two-run double that broke through the extra-innings ice, and Mikayla Brown got her second win of the season with 5 1/3 relief innings.

In the first game, a 6-0 NSU loss, SHSU pitcher Lindsay McLeod tossed a no-hitter and recorded 11 strikeouts.

"We showed a lot of fight in the second game," said NSU coach Donald Pickett. "Nothing went right in the first game against (McLeod), and then we got up in the second game only for Sam Houston State to come back.

"But we kept fighting, and that's the kind of fight it was going to take."

NSU (9-13, 1-1 SLC) will face SHSU (9-13, 1-1 SLC) at noon Saturday in the series finale.

NSU 6, SHSU 4 (10)

Maggie Black's second double of the season capped a 10^th-inning assault that included one of SHSU's two errors and a Codi Vernace single.

Black doubled with two outs, and freshman Riley Cantrell and the sophomore Vernace scored the go-ahead runs to support Brown (2-1).

Brown moved into seventh-place all-time on NSU's career wins list with 43, passing former teammate Micaela Bouvier.

The senior allowed just one run on four hits, including retiring 15 of the last 18 batters she faced.

SHSU threatened to end the game in the ninth inning with the bases loaded, but Brown induced a fly ball to get out of the jam.

Brown entered in the fifth inning and surrendered a Bailey White two-run double that allowed SHSU to grab a 3-2 lead.

Both runs were credited to starter Samantha Guile, who pieced together a great beginning to her outing, allowing just two hits in a scoreless first four innings. Guile finished with three runs allowed on four hits in 4 2/3 innings.

But the Bearkats struck for three fifth-inning runs as SHSU put together another big inning to generate the bulk of its offense.

Guile finished with three runs allowed on four hits in 4 2/3 innings.

SHSU's Brooke Malia supplied a solo home run in the sixth inning to stretch its lead to 4-2, but the NSU offense continued its surge in the seventh inning.

Sophomores Cayla Jones (2-for-5, 2 RBIs) and E.C. Delafield (2-for-4, RBI) each drove in runs with RBI singles in the seventh inning to extend the game.

Jones' single scored Hayley Barbazon (2-for-5, RBI) and Delafield scored Kaitlyn St. Clair (2-for-5). Vernace (2-for-3) joined NSU's five players that had multiple hits.

"Delafield especially has been hitting the ball well lately, and she had a big with runners on," Pickett said. "And then Maggie had the huge hit that put us ahead for good (in the 10^th inning).

"I was happy with the way this offense bounced back after the first game."

NSU jumped out to a 2-0 edge thanks to a Jones solo home run in the fourth inning and a Barbazon RBI single in the fifth inning.

SHSU 6, NSU 0

Sam Houston State pitcher Lindsay McLeod tossed a no-hitter, and the Bearkats piled up runs in the third inning en route to a 6-0 Northwestern State loss.

McLeod (5-6) struck out 11 batters, including eight of the first 10 batters she faced.

NSU drew four walks, including a pair of fifth-inning walks that put two runners on base. But McLeod ended NSU's only threat with a strikeout.

McLeod is the reigning Southland Conference Hitter of the Week after picking up a pair of wins with no earned runs this past week.

NSU freshman pitcher Bronte Rhoden (4-3) breezed through the first two innings of her Southland Conference debut, but the Bearkats awoke for a monster six-run third inning.

SHSU scored six runs – all with two outs – to pull away from NSU in the opener.

Rhoden recorded the second out of the frame with runners on the corners before SHSU strung together four straight hits to score the six runs.

Tiffany Thompson started the scoring with a two-RBI single before coming home on a Megan McDonald RBI single for a 3-0 edge.

After a Bailey White single, Kyndal Kutac hit a three-run home run to boost the Bearkats to a 6-0 advantage.