SEARCY – Harding and Arkansas-Monticello split a pair of low-scoring games Saturday in Great American Conference action at Jerry Moore Field. The Bisons won the opener 2-1 and lost 4-1 to the Boll Weevils in game two.

The teams will conclude the series Sunday at 1 p.m.

Harding junior Cameron Walker (1-0) earned his first win of the season with the Bisons' first complete game. He allowed only seven hits and no earned runs with seven strikeouts in pitching the first complete game of his career.

Harding (15-9, 8-6) trailed 1-0 until the bottom of the eighth. The Bisons loaded the bases with no outs, and junior Trent Wooldridge scored senior Paul Anzalone with a sacrifice fly to left field. A double play ended the inning.

Bison junior Jeremy Bohnett led off the ninth with a single and moved to third on junior Matt Calhoun's line drive single to right. With junior Erin McCarver at the plate, Arkansas-Monticello reliever Eddie Smith (3-3) uncorked a wild pitch that hit in front of the plate and bounced high off the backstop net. Bohnett raced home to score the winning run without a play.

Arkansas-Monticello (16-13, 8-10) took a 1-0 lead in the fifth. T.J. Cox reached second on a two-base throwing error to lead off the inning. He moved to third on Chad Miller's sacrifice bunt and scored on Tyler Caruthers' single up the middle.

In game two, all the scoring came in the first inning.

Arkansas-Monticello opened the game with four runs on four hits in the opening inning off Harding starter Hayden Shirley (5-2), who settled in and allowed only one hit over the next four innings.

Harding's run came in the bottom of the inning of Arkansas-Monticello's Logan Johnson (1-0), who pitched a complete game in his first start of the season.

Bison senior Kyle Atkins doubled to open the inning and moved to third on Wooldridge's single. Senior Billy Ninemire drove in Atkins with a sacrifice fly to left field. Harding was 0-for-6 the rest of the game with runners on base and stranded seven runners.

Calhoun had three hits on the day for the Bisons and is 11-for-20 (.550) in his career against Arkansas-Monticello.