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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Clutch hits in game one and three big innings in game two gave the Harding baseball team a doubleheader sweep over Alabama-Huntsville on Saturday at Charger Park. The Bisons won 4-3 and 11-8 and ran their winning streak to five straight.
Harding (6-1) trailed 3-1 after five innings in the opener, but in the sixth the Bisons had runners at first and third and one out when sophomore Anthony Guglielmi's single cut the Alabama-Huntsville lead to one run. Freshman Jeremy Bohnett's walk loaded the bases, and fellow freshman Matt Calhoun laced a double over the right fielder's head to score two runs with what proved to be the game-winning hit.
Harding held the lead over the last two innings. Junior Marc McRae (2-0) pitched two perfect innings in relief of Bison starter Ryan Modglin to pick up the win, his second in his last two appearances. Freshman Bronson Smith struck out two in the seventh inning to earn his first collegiate save.
Alabama-Huntsville (6-4) had just two hits off Modglin, both singles. He allowed three runs, two earned, with two strikeouts.
Harding trailed 2-1 after four innings in game two, but scored four in the fifth, two in the sixth and four again in the seventh.
Alabama-Huntsville tied the game at 7-7 with two runs in the bottom of the sixth. Modglin, the designated hitter in the second game, put the Bisons ahead for good with an RBI single in the seventh. Sophomore Paul Anzalone added an RBI on a squeeze bunt, another run scored on a Charger error, and Billy Ninemire's RBI single gave the Bisons a four-run lead going into the bottom of the seventh.
The Chargers scored a run in the inning, but Harding reliever Donny Stephens (1-0) held on for the win. Stephens allowed three runs on six hits in two innings. Harding starter Logan Holthaus went five innings and allowed five earned runs on eight hits and struck out three.
Ninemire had two of Harding's nine hits, and Guglielmi had a three-run home run in the fifth, his first of the season.
The two teams meet for another doubleheader Sunday beginning at 11 a.m.
