After leaving the tying run on at third after a sixth inning baserunning blunder, Fort Gibson coach Jerry Walker gathered his team for oh, call it some stress therapy.

“I just reminded the girls that they’re a good hitting team, hang in there and that we’d come from behind several times already this season in the seventh inning,” Walker said.

The Lady Tigers did it again, scoring three seventh-inning runs to down Muskogee 4-2 at Rougherettes Park on Tuesday.

Kayla Menie’s one-out double brought home Mikki Stone with the tying run, then Ashley Nevitt singled to left to score Jessica McClure for a 3-2 lead. Taylor Mills’ fielder’s choice groundout brought Menie home. The inning began when Stone reached on shortstop Jordan Clark’s errant throw to first.

It bailed FGHS out of a misfortunate sixth. Kayla Jones had singled Taylor Mills to third with one out, but on Cheyenne Johnson’s fly ball to right fielder Laura Fleck, Jones failed to tag up and was doubled off first, preventing Mills from scoring the tying run.

Menie was 3-for-4 and Nevitt, whose sister Allison Nevitt was an all-stater for Muskogee a couple of years ago, was 2-for-4. Nevitt’s mother teaches at Fort Gibson.

The rally calmed the nerves of winning pitcher Hayley Jaynes (4-0), who quipped afterward, “I just had to keep remembering to breathe.” She held Muskogee to just three hits and both of her runs were unearned in the fourth off consecutive errors by shortstop Johnson after Hannah Hamilton’s one-out double.

“I never need to give up on my team,” Jaynes said. “We like to waste hits a little bit and it’s scary, but I trust them and they come through for me and I just try to stay on my game and make the pitches the way I’m supposed to.”

Fort Gibson moved to 8-1 with its fourth straight win since losing to Jenks five days ago. Muskogee, which opened with an 8-0 win over Jenks, has lost three of four since to fall to 2-3. Lacie Burch (2-3), who threw the shutout against Jenks, gave up nine hits.

“We didn’t execute when we needed to execute,” Muskogee coach Mack Chambers said. “Hand it to Jaynes. She did a good job mixing it up keeping us off-balance and had all her pitches working.”

Johnson redeemed herself somewhat after the pair of fourth-inning errors with a nice snag of a sinking fly ball off the bat of Madison Reed to end the fifth. Nevitt ran down a fly ball to center off Hamilton and catcher Allison Cates snagged a foul tip in the seventh off Burch’s bat. Jaynes then got pinch-hitter Cheyenne Parish to hit into a game-ending double play.

“We gave them some breaks early on and we made some foolish plays and you know, they kind of gave it back to us a little bit later,” Walker added. “There’s a lot of pressure when you’re playing one run either way and that showed at times.”

Muskogee is scheduled to play host to Hilldale on Thursday. Fort Gibson goes to Union on the same day.