The softball team finished its first conference series of the season with a win on Saturday against the University of Texas-Arlington Mavericks, 7-2, after losing the first two games of the series on Friday.

On Friday, the Wildcats played a doubleheader, losing the first game 12-8 in 10 innings and the second game 11-6.

After the series, the Wildcats are now 4-26 on the season and 1-2 in conference play, putting them sixth in the Western Athletic Conference standings, one spot above last-place Tarleton State, which has not played a conference game.

In the first game on Friday, Emerson Meggers, junior infielder from Vacaville, California, and Ari Maxwell, sophomore outfielder from Edmond, Oklahoma, led the team with one hit and two RBIs, and three hits, one run and one RBI, respectively. Both had six at-bats.

Ella Beeman, right-handed pitcher from Lowell, Arkansas, and Leah Meyer, right-handed pitcher, shared the mound in Friday’s first game, pitching five innings each.

Beeman pitched eight innings throughout the weekend, the most of any ACU pitcher, and had two strikeouts and seven walks among the 40 batters she faced.

After ACU scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the score at eight, the two teams went scoreless until the 10th inning, when the Mavericks scored two runs on a home run and two more on a single up the middle. ACU failed to answer in the bottom of the 10th.

In Friday’s second game, Ciana Arguijo, freshman utility player from Round Rock, had two hits, one run and two RBIs in four at-bats. After the Mavericks took a 4-0 lead, Arguijo brought in ACU’s first run of the day with a single in the bottom of the 3rd inning. Maxwell followed with a home run, bringing three runs in to tie the game.

Once UTA took the lead in the top of the fifth, it didn’t give it back and went on to win the game 11-6.

On Saturday, Arguijo led the way again with two runs, two hits and one RBI in four at-bats. ACU took an early 6-0 lead until UTA scored a two-run home run in the sixth inning, answered by an Arguijo home run to make it 7-2 and secure the win.

“They’ve learned to fight all year,” head coach Jo Koons said. “I knew without a shadow of a doubt we were going to win that game on Saturday. We were going to find a way to win; that’s just who this team is.”

She said to start fast again, the team needs to scout and prepare well.

ACU is scheduled to play UNT after going to print.

After UNT, the Wildcats will not have a weekend series but will play No. 2 Texas Tech at home on Tuesday. When the two teams faced on Feb. 26, the Red Raiders won 24-0 in five innings.