Today in Harding Sports, Feb. 13

Baseball
12 p.m. (DH) vs. Williams Baptist – Searcy, Ark. (Jerry Moore Field)

Harding plays its first midweek games of the season Tuesday, hosting Williams Baptist of the NAIA American Midwest Conference. Williams Baptist is located in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.
The Bisons are 2-3 overall and coming off a split in a nonconference doubleheader against St. Edward's Friday. Saturday's game was rained out.
Williams Baptist is 3-3 and coming off a four-game series against Missouri Valley College in which it won the opener and lost the next three.
Harding leads the all-time series with Williams Baptist 67-12 … Harding head coach Dr. Patrick McGaha is 14-1 against Williams Baptist.
Harding is 2-3 at home this season and was 13-8 at home in 2017 … Williams Baptist is playing its first road games this season and was 9-22 on the road in 2017.
Harding is hitting .223 and averaging 4.6 runs per nine innings … the Bisons have a 3.95 ERA and .953 fielding percentage.
Williams Baptist is hitting .215 and averaging 7.1 runs per nine innings … the Eagles have a 4.50 ERA and a .941 fielding percentage.
Grant Guest enters the doubleheader on a five-game hitting streak … his longest hitting streak in his career was nine games.
Probable starters for Harding:
- Game 1 – Brian Tims, 6-1, 185, JR, RHP, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  - Transfer from Seward County Community College
  - 2018: 1 game, 0-0, 9.00 ERA, 2.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
  - Career: same
  - Last outing: vs. Missouri Western (2/3) – 2.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
- Game 2 – TBA

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