BETHANY, Okla. – Harding baseball split a doubleheader Saturday at Southern Nazarene and won the Great American Conference series two-games-to-one.

The Bisons lost 7-6 in the opener and won game two 6-4. Harding won Friday's game 25-9.

Harding is 8-4 overall and 2-1 in the GAC. The Bisons play a non-conference doubleheader against Henderson State on Tuesday in Arkadelphia, Ark.

Harding took an early 4-0 lead in game two, scoring two runs in the second and two more in the third. Chris Hardey walked to lead off the second and came around to score on Kyler Offenbacker's single to center. David McKenzie also had a single in the inning and scored on John Chapman's sacrifice bunt.

Harding's two runs in the fourth were unearned. Southern Nazarene made two errors in the inning. The Bisons first run scored on McKenzie's RBI ground out, and James Anderson scored on the second Crimson Storm error.

Southern Nazarene cut the lead to 4-1 in the fourth, but Harding answered with two more in the sixth on a two-run double by Anderson, his fourth double of the series.

Sophomore Collin Campbell pitched the first five innings for the Bisons and allowed only four hits and one run while striking out six.

Southern Nazarene scored a run in the sixth and two more in the seventh to cut the Harding lead to 6-4, but Bison career saves leader Bronson Smith got the last three outs for his first save of the season and 18th of his career. Campbell moved to 2-0 with the win.

Southern Nazarene starter Kyle Vail (2-1) allowed six runs (four earned) in 4 2/3 innings and got the loss.

Harding also had a 4-0 lead in the opener, scoring two unearned runs in the second and adding two more on a two-run double by Anderson in the third.

The Crimson Storm scored seven straight runs with one in the third, two in the fourth and four in the sixth to take a 7-4 lead.

Harding cut the lead to one with two runs in the top of the seventh. Chapman drove in one run and another scored on a Southern Nazarene error, but the Bisons left two runners in scoring position and never threatened in the eighth or ninth.

Senior Logan Holthaus started and got a no-decision for the Bisons. He allowed three runs on five hits in five innings. He struck out three and walked none. Reliever Andrew Fiddler (1-2) gave up the four runs in the sixth and took the loss.