ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Marge in charge.

That was the story of the weekend as Southeastern’s LadyStorm went 4-1 in the Henderson State Softball Festival Friday and Saturday.

Coach Ron Faubion’s club (33-5 and No. 4 in NCAA Division II) swept the host Lady Reddies 9-0 and 1-0 in 10 innings Saturday around a 6-2 loss to Oklahoma City University, 23-1 and No. 3 in the NAIA.

Johnson (15-0), Southeastern’s hard-thowing senior righthander, picked up all four wins as she pitched 21.2 innings, allowed no hits, no runs, walked five and struck out 47.

You read it right. Johnson gave up no hits in 21.2 innings while striking out 47. That’s National Pitcher of the Week stuff.

Senior shortstop Bailey Mathes creamed the ball at a .600 clip with nine for 15, including a school-record three home runs in three at-bats with the first one a grand slam.

Senior third baseman/outfielder Jaclyn Mullaney hit .417 with five for 12, a double, three RBIs, and a game-saving defensive play.

Sophomore catcher Jennifer Morales batted just .231 with three for 13, but she homered for the winning run in one game, crashed into the fence to catch a foul bunt in the final game and delivered the game-winning RBI in the 10th inning of the final game.

Junior center fielder Laney Anderson hit .333 with five for 15 and drove in a huge insurance run in the 3-1win over Ouachita Baptist.

Sophomore pinch-hitter Brittanie Swift was two for two with a sacrifice bunt, a run scored and a run batted in.

Other than this, it was just another two days at the office.

Faubion said, “After five days off, this was a good way to come back. Marge was just unreal. It was good to be back playing. We had one error on the day and we managed to get everybody into the game.

“Our kids really battled back in the last game after a tough loss to OCU. We had to win the regional games and we managed to accomplish that.”

Southeastern is scheduled to host Arkansas Tech in a 2 p.m. twinbill Tuesday before the Lone Star Crossover Tournament here Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Henderson State Festival

LadyStorm 9

Henderson State 0

Johnson pitched four innings, struck out seven and improved to 12-0. Jami McAdoo completed the no-hitter with two strikeouts.

Morales bashed a two-out homer in the second inning for the eventual winning run. The Storm added two in the fourth, two in the fifth on Erika Bernal’s team-tying 11th home run, then closed it out with four in the seventh on Mathes’ grand slam, the first of her career and first of three roundtrippers in a row.

Mullaney was two for two with a double and two RBIs to pace the Storm. Mathes was three for four with her eighth homer and four batted in.

Bernal was two for three with a homer and two runs batted in. Morales was one for two with her second home run.

Stephany Crawford, Swift, Johnson, McAdoo and Anderson had a hit each for the winners.

Oklahoma City 6

LadyStorm 2

The Stars rode a 4-run fourth inning to the win after the game was tied at 2-2.

Mathes tied the game at 1-1 with a solo homer in the second, but the Stars added a run in the third and four in the fourth.

Mathes collected her third-consecutive home run, and 10th of the season, in the fourth inning.

Amanda Tanner pitched the first four innings and took the loss to make her record 9-3. McAdoo blanked Oklahoma City over the last three innings.

Mathes was two for two, was hit by a pitch and drew a walk. She was hit on an 0-3 count after dodging a couple of close pitches.

Mullaney was one for two, Anderson one for three, Benita Sanchez and Kristi Goins one for four each.

Erin Stuttvet led OCU with two for four. Melissa Moore was one for three with her 8th home run.

OCU’s Ashley Wilburn went the distance, struck out five, walked two, and improved to 12-1.

LadyStorm 1

Henderson State 0

(10 innings)

Johnson and Melissa Decker hooked up in a pitchers’ duel that carried into the seventh as a double no-hitter.

SE’s first hit came with one out in the seventh when Mathes lined a shot off the pitcher’s glove and the shortstop couldn’t make the play.

Henderson State had one runner reach second base against Johnson, who was other-wordly in this one.

With the International Tiebreaker rule in place after the seventh inning, each team started with a runner at second. Neither team could score and it seemed the game might be called because of darkness.

SE turned in a pair of defensive gems in extra innings. With a Lady Reddie at third and one out in the eighth, catcher Morales hit the fence, but held onto a foul bunt for the second out.

Johnson’s 16th strikeout ended the inning.

The second defensive gem came in the bottom of the 10th after SE had scored the only run of the game on Morales’ single to right that drove in Bernal.

Faubion, impersonating a chess grand master, moved Mullaney from third to right field, Kristi Goins from right to left and Bernal from left to third.

A bunt resulted in an overthrow at first with the runner rounding third and heading home. Mullaney was perfectly positioned to back up the play, fielded the ball cleanly and fired a strike to Morales to nail the potential tying run.

Another bunt moved a runner to third and Johnson ended the suspense and the game with her 19th strikeout.

Morales was one for four with the game-winnng RBI. Mathes was one for three and broke up the no-hitter in the seventh. Decker (9-8) pitched the game of her life and deserved a better fate. She allowed just two hits and evened her record at 9-9.