ARLINGTON – It was a game of feet – hundreds and hundreds of feet in North Texas' 13-10 extra inning road loss to UT - Arlington on Wednesday night.
 
Both sides combined to hit seven home runs along with 28 hits, The Mean Green (10-5) set a new program record for home runs in a single game with five. Tayla Evans (2) and Rhylie Makawe (3) both had two each, and Lacy Gregory added her third home-run of the season.
 
But the Mavericks (9-6) hit the most important home-run of the night – a walk off grand slam from Raegan Wright.

"I thought the offensive performance was very good," assistant coach Dillon Bryant said. "Our discipline at the plate changed the second time through. We fought and fought, tooth and nail but just too many mistakes."
 
The Mavs struck first. With three runs in the opening frame the home team seemed to be flying and rode the wave into another run in the second to open a 4-0 lead. North Texas' bats then came to life.
 
Harley Perella jumped on a pitch to single and score Kourtney Williams and Kenzie Young to start the North Texas scoring.
 
Moments later, in a brief exchange, head coach Rodney DeLong was ejected from the ballgame by the home plate umpire. The first pitch after DeLong exited the diamond was crushed by Gregory, a two-run home run to cap off a four-run inning as the Mean Green began to charge back.
 
The Mean Green would be the next team to score when Makawe hit a solo shot to dead-center, her first of two, to give North Texas a 5-4 lead in the fourth. The Mavericks struck for another run to tie the game on a scramble in the infield, but were caught trying to stretch more bases to end the inning and limit the damage.
 
In the home half of the fifth, UTA hit a two-run home run to take a 7-5 lead off the bat of Brittany Wylie. But Makawe struck again with her second solo shot in the sixth, this time to right-center to pull within 7-6.
 
Then it was Evans' pinch hint, two-out, two-run shot to give North Texas a lead. The Mean Green added a run in the top half of the 7th before Jenna Goodrich entered to try and close the ballgame. Goodrich went 2.1 innings, allowing six runs on eight hits striking out one. Hope Trautwein handled the start, going five innings, allowing seven runs, six earned, on nine hits and striking out five.
 
"I thought we pitched well enough to win the game," Bryant said. "But not as well as we could. I thought it was a great chance for [Tayla]. She did a great job. She fought and made it count."
 
The Mavericks struck for two runs in the home half of the seventh to force extras, cancelling out a North Texas run in the top half of the 7th. But North Texas struck again in the 8th with Evans' second solo home run of the game. The game was ended with Wright's no-doubt walk-off.
 
The Mean Green return to action on Friday in the Texas Tech Invitational with the Mavericks again at 12:30 p.m. before facing #18 Texas Tech at 5:30.
 
"We've just got to prepare tomorrow," Bryant said. "We know what we're up against. It's a great team in Texas Tech and a very, obviously, scrappy UTA team with some great hitters. We're not going to let this linger. We're going to move on, we've got a big set of games this weekend."