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Tyler Mohr
Jeff Montgomery
Tyler Mohr scored twice and drove in two in game one.
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Southern Nazarene SNU 2-26, 2-15 GAC
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Winner Harding HU 10-17, 8-9 GAC
Southern Nazarene SNU
2-26, 2-15 GAC
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Final
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Harding HU
10-17, 8-9 GAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Southern Nazarene SNU 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 10 1
Harding HU 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 X 6 9 3

W: Roberts, Reed (1-4) L: Jefferson Harris (1-3) S: Beever, Raiff (4)

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Winner Southern Nazarene SNU 3-26, 3-15 GAC
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Harding HU 10-18, 8-10 GAC
Winner
Southern Nazarene SNU
3-26, 3-15 GAC
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Final
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Harding HU
10-18, 8-10 GAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E
Southern Nazarene SNU 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 8 10 3
Harding HU 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 1

W: Anthony Wiggins (1-4) L: McCall, Logan (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Scott Goode (3/26/17)

Harding Baseball Splits GAC Doubleheader with Southern Nazarene

SEARCY – Harding and Southern Nazarene split a Great American Conference doubleheader Sunday at Jerry Moore Field, with the Bisons winning the opener 6-4 and Southern Nazarene winning game two 8-5 in 12 innings in a game that lasted more than three hours and was the sixth-longest game Harding has played in the NCAA era.

Harding is now 10-18 overall and 8-10 in GAC games. After the sixth of 11 conference series, the Bisons are tied with East Central for sixth place in the 12-team conference. The top eight teams advance to the GAC Tournament. Southern Nazarene is 3-26 overall and tied with Northwestern Oklahoma at 3-15 for 11th in the conference.

The bottom three hitters in Harding's lineup combined to score three runs and drive in five in the Bisons' 6-4 victory in game one. In a statistical oddity, each of the nine hitters in Harding's lineup had exactly one hit. It was the three hits from the No. 7 hitter Tyler Mohr, No. 8 hitter Connor Kelly and No. 9 hitter J. Paul Fullerton that led to the Harding victory.

Southern Nazarene strung together two hits and a sacrifice fly to take a 1-0 lead in the first off Harding starter Reed Roberts.

Harding took the lead for good in the bottom of the second. Jesse Cox walked and came around to score on a balk by Southern Nazarene starter Jefferson Harris. Fullerton then gave Harding a 2-1 lead with a run-scoring ground out.

Fullerton made it 3-1 in the fifth, launching his third home run of the season to right.

Roberts (1-4) pitched into the seventh, allowing only five hits and one earned run with one walk and five strikeouts. Mason Faulkner came on with two outs and the bases loaded in the seventh and got out of the jam without allowing a run.

Roberts earned his first win in arguably his best outing. It was the second time this season he allowed a single earned run in a start.

Southern Nazarene did cut the lead to 3-2 in the eighth with the third of three hits trimming Harding's lead to one run.

In the bottom of the eighth, Harding put the game away. Following singles by Zach Beasley and Myles Humphreys, Mohr tripled to right to score both runners and give Harding a 5-2 lead. It was Mohr's second triple of the season. Kelly's infield single scored Mohr with Harding's sixth run.

A pair of Harding errors in the ninth led to two Southern Nazarene runs, but freshman Raiff Beever recorded the final two outs for his fourth save.

Harris (1-3) took the loss for Southern Nazarene. He started and lasted six innings, allowing four hits and three earned runs with four walks and three strikeouts.

Southern Nazarene broke open a 5-5 tie in the top of the 12th inning of game two on a two-out RBI double by Mike Descisciolo and a two-run bloop single to left by Anthony Wiggins.

Wiggins (1-4) started the game as Southern Nazarene's first baseman but came in to pitch in relief in the fifth inning. He had pitched only five innings all season but did not allow an earned run over eight innings, allowing five hits, walking seven and striking out five while throwing 125 pitches.

Harding struggled to get hits at key times in the game and tied a school record with 18 runners left on base. The Bisons were 2 for 23 with runners in scoring position. The second of those two hits was Chris Taylor's single up the middle in the sixth with the game tied at 3-3 that scored two runners and put the Bisons ahead.

Harding had a chance to win the game in the top of the seventh, but a wild throw on a double play attempt allowed two Southern Nazarene runners to score and tie the game again at 5-5.

Harding had the bases loaded with one out and did not score in the eighth, had the winning run at third and two outs in the 10th and did not score, and had the winning run at third and one out in the 11th and did not score.

Harding used six pitchers in the game. Logan McCall (1-2) pitched 4 2/3 innings of relief and gave up two of the three runs in the 12th to get the loss.

Taylor was on base six time for Harding in the second game. He was 3-for-4 with two RBIs and walked three times. Harding walked 12 times in the game, the most since drawing a school-record 15 walks against Christian Brothers in 2010.

Harding will return to action Tuesday at Jerry Moore Field in a non-conference game against Arkansas Tech that begins at 3 p.m.
 
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