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Box Score 2 SEARCY – Harding baseball's unbeaten run to start the season continued Monday with a doubleheader sweep of Alabama-Huntsville at Jerry Moore Field. The Bisons won the opener 2-1 on a game-winning hit from sophomore
Matt Calhoun and used four runs in the first two innings to win game two 4-1.
Harding (7-0), ranked 28th nationally and off to its best start since joining the NCAA in 1997, got two more strong efforts out of its starting pitching. Through seven games, Harding's pitching staff has a 1.15 ERA.
Junior
Lucas Waddell started game one and allowed only one earned run through six innings. The game was tied 1-1 after six, and freshman reliever
Andrew Fiddler (1-0) retired Alabama-Huntsville in the top of the seventh.
In the bottom of the inning,
Jeremy Bohnett singled to left to open the inning. Calhoun attempted unsuccessfully to sacrifice Bohnett to second, and with two strikes, lashed a double to right center and Bohnett scored from first with the winning run. Bohnett had two of Harding's five hits in game one.
David Kendrick (1-1) pitched a complete game and took the loss for Alabama-Huntsville. He struck out three in six innings.
Harding scored twice in the first inning of game two.
Paul Anzalone's double scored
Kyle Atkins, who walked to lead off the inning. Anzalone later scored on a wild pitch by UAH starter Corey Hale (0-3).
Atkins drove in both runs in the second inning on a bases loaded single to right.
Junior
Ryan Modglin (1-0), making his first start of the season for the Bisons, stayed out of trouble until the sixth. Consecutive hits by the Chargers put runners on second and third with one out. Freshman
Josh Spears came out and induced a ground out that scored one runner. He then struck out Jim Nelson to end the threat.
In the seventh, Spears set down the side in order to earn his first collegiate save.
Harding had just four hits in game two.
The Bisons will play their fifth game in three days Tuesday when they host Arkansas-Ft. Smith for a single game at 2 p.m.