SEARCY – Every Harding hitter that went to the plate had at least one hit, and Bison starter Andrew Fiddler pitched a complete-game shutout Friday in an 11-0 mercy-rule shortened victory over Arkansas-Monticello in Great American Conference action at Jerry Moore Field. The series concludes Saturday with a noon doubleheader.

In an attempt to finish before a rain storm hit the Searcy area, the teams moved Friday's game to 10:30 a.m. Harding's bats woke up early, but Arkansas-Monticello's never did.

Arkansas-Monticello starter Zach McKnight (4-2) had five strikeouts in the game's first two innings, but Harding got to him in the third.

Harding (18-17, 9-7) had five hits, all to right field, in the third inning and scored four runs. Junior Noah Chandler had a two-run double, and junior Alan Copeland and freshman Zach Beasley had run-scoring singles.

The Bisons tacked on another run in the fourth on Chandler's ground out that scored John Chapman from third.

Harding put the game away completely with a six-run sixth inning. The Bisons had eight hits, all singles, in the frame.

Chandler, Copeland, Beasley and Kyler Offenbacker each had two hits in Harding's 14-hit outing. It was the fifth straight game the Bisons have had 10 or more hits, a feat that Harding has not accomplished since 2009. Chandler had three RBIs, and Beasley and Kinnear added two each.

Fiddler (4-2) allowed only five hits, all singles, in his first career shutout. Fiddler has not allowed an earned run in 15 career innings against the Boll Weevils.

Arkansas-Monticello (12-12, 9-8) was shutout for only the second time this season and tied a season-low with five hits. Nick Cerda went 2 for 3 and was the only Boll Weevil with more than one hit.

McKnight had allowed four earned runs or fewer in all seven starts this season, but left after 5 2/3 innings Friday having allowed nine earned runs on 10 hits with four walks and seven strikeouts.