LAKE CHARLES---  McNeese softball moved one step closer to clinching one of the two four-team Southland Conference Tournament bracket play pods on Friday with a doubleheader win (16-0, 14-3) over East Texas A&M, extending its winning streak to 10 games.
 
The series will end with a single game at 1 p.m. Saturday.  Following the game, seniors Reese Reyna, Kelsey Gaspard, and Rylie Bouvier will be honored.
 
McNeese (33-17, 19-4) outscored the Lions 30-3 and outhit them 27-8 that included 16 extra base hits (10 doubles, three triples, and three homeruns).
 
Jada Muñoz ended the day with an .857 batting average after going 6 for 7 at the plate with two homeruns, two doubles, nine RBI and scored four runs.  Her seven RBI's in game one tied the McNeese single game record.
 
Kadence Williams improved to 10-7 overall with the game one win and Maddie Taylor picked up the win in the nightcap to improve to 15-6 on the season.  
 
The hitting barrage started in the first inning in the opening game of the series when the Cowgirls basically blew the game open by taking a 10-0 lead.
 
Back-to-back homeruns by Jada Muñoz and Samantha Mundine put the Cowgirls up 4-0 in an inning where the Cowgirls batted around.  Later in the inning, it was Muñoz and Mundine again, this time both players hit back-to-back doubles to extend the lead to 10-0.
 
McNeese pushed five more runs across the plate in the second inning on five hits including Muñoz's second homerun of the game along with and three doubles.  The final McNeese run came in the third inning when Bouvier scored.
 
The nightcap was back and forth for the first two innings before McNeese broke the game open in the third with nine runs. 
 
The Lions took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a solo homerun by Stephanie Tapia before McNeese came to back and scored two runs in the bottom of the inning on RBI's by Mundine and Reyna.
 
East Texas A&M retook the lead at 3-2 with two runs in the second inning with the tying run scoring on a Cowgirl error.  KK Cosek's RBI single to left center scored the go-ahead head run for the Lions.
 
McNeese tied the game at three apiece in the bottom of the second inning when Sarah Allen led the inning off with a double and scored on a triple by Kassidy Chance.  A Muñoz single scored Chance for the 4-3 lead.
 
The Cowgirls blew the game open with nine runs on five hits to take a 13-3 lead.  A RBI single by Nyjah Fontenot in the fourth inning scored Chance for the final McNeese run of the game.