PORTALES, N.M. -- No. 22-ranked Midwestern State drilled Eastern New Mexico 10-2 in five innings complete its seventh consecutive run-rule victory Saturday afternoon at Zia Field.
 
The Mustangs improved to 19-4 on the season and 3-0 in Lone Star Conference play in winning their season-best ninth-straight game. MSU has now won 14 of its last 15 games.
 
Sophomore third baseman Kelley Schaefer extended her team-best hitting streak to seven games by blasting her fifth homer of the season with a three-run shot to give the Mustangs a 4-0 lead in the first inning.
 
MSU extended its lead to 6-0 after freshman shortstop Shelby Carter drove in two more unearned runs on a double to right field in the second innings.
 
Eastern New Mexico retaliated with a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame, but that's all the Zias could manage off of MSU starter Laci Belovsky.
 
Belovsky improved to 12-2 on the campaign allowing one earned run on five hits in the five inning complete game. The freshman from Grangerland notched five strikeouts and walked one.
 
Junior catcher Kim Jerrick belted her ninth homer of the season with a three-run shot in the third inning to push the MSU lead to 9-2 in the third before senior outfielder Courtney Bingham forced the run-rule with an RBI-double in the fifth.
 
Jerrick and Bingham paced the Mustangs' 10-hit attack with two safeties each.
 
Midwestern plays host to No. 3 West Texas A&M for a three-game set next weekend at Mustangs Park. The rivals play a single game Friday at 7 p.m. before squaring off for a twin bill Saturday beginning at noon.