Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

SEARCY – The first day of Gulf South Conference baseball action could not have started much better for Dr. Patrick MaGaha's Harding Bisons.

Harding (22-4, 2-0) capitalized on four Christian Brothers errors to score six unearned runs in a 9-2 victory in the opener, and received outstanding starting pitching from senior Brodie Brumley to win game two 4-0.

Five different Harding players had multi-hit games in the opener, led by senior Trent Kinnear who went 3-for-4 and had two RBI.

Two Christian Brothers errors led to three unearned Harding runs in the first inning, and the Bisons led the rest of the way.

Christian Brothers (13-7, 0-2) cut the led to 3-1 in the top of the fifth, but Harding answered with a run on a Kinnear RBI double. The Bisons tacked on two more in the sixth, one coming Erin McCarver's RBI single, and three more in the eighth. Freshman Jeremy Bohnett had a two-run triple in the inning that came after Christian Brothers intentionally walked Jason Nappi, Harding's leading hitter.

Sophomore Ryan Modglin (3-0) remained unbeaten as Harding's starter. He went seven innings and allowed only four hits and one earned run and struck out seven. Modglin lowered his team-best ERA to 1.54 for the season.

Christian Brothers starter Alex Sikes (3-1) lost for the first time this season, yielding 11 hits and six runs, only two earned, in 5.2 innings.

Brumley (2-2) pitched his best game of the season in game two. He allowed only two hits, both to CBU designated hitter Aaron Short, did not walk any, and struck out a season-high nine. Brumley threw 67 of his 104 pitches for strikes.

Harding sophomore Paul Anzalone laid down a bunt single in the third inning to extend his team-leading hitting streak to 10 games. He stole second and scored on Chase Presley's RBI single over the head of CBU shortstop Rob Maxwell.

A pair of home runs accounted for the rest of Harding's scoring. In the fifth, Presley hit his first home run of the season, a two-run shot, over the scoreboard in left field. One inning later, Bohnett launched a solo home run, his third of the season, to left.

Harding had seven hits in game two off Christian Brothers left-handed starter Lee Paine (2-2). Paine went 5.0 innings before he was ejected from the game after hitting McCarver following Bohnett's home run.

Presley went 2-for-3 with a run and three RBI.

The two teams complete the three-game series Sunday at Jerry Moore Field at 1 p.m.